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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2017
Ssi Schaefer Noell Gmbh Lager- Und Systemtechnik, Giebelstadt, DE;
Elmar Issing, Giebelstadt, DE;
SSI Schäfer Noell GmbH Lager- und Systemtechnik, Giebelstadt, DE;
Abstract
A storage and picking system including racks having a multiplicity of rack locations; vertical conveyors adjacent laterally to longitudinal sides of corresponding racks or arranged within the corresponding racks; transfer locations arranged for material-flow-related uncoupling between the vertical conveyors and storage-and-retrieval units; storage-and-retrieval units in aisles between the racks; and a conveying level free of rack locations. The vertical conveyors are assigned respective transfer locations in the conveying-means level. A material-flow computer (MFR), which has access to a topology made up of a multiplicity of waypoints and segments, provides article-specific, sequence- or distribution-weighted transport orders to transport the articles between the rack locations and starting points/destinations. The transport orders each have a route, in the conveying-means level, which represents linked segments and along which the articles are moved between the transfer locations and the starting points/destinations, and each of the segments connects one waypoint to another waypoint.