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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2019
Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a picking assistance system that can improve work efficiency. A picking assistance system includes: a plurality of movable shelves configured to be able to accommodate at least one article; and a control device configured to control the movement of each of the shelves. The control device causes a series of processes of moving a sorting shelf selected from the shelves to a work station selected from a plurality of work station and moving articles from a deposit shelf disposed at the selected work station to the sorting shelf by a picking operation to be executed repeatedly while changing the work station until the sorting shelf accommodates prescribed articles.