Picking zones
- Route totes through pick zones based on required picks.
- Tote is diverted only when a pick is required, otherwise it continues to next zone.
- Full totes are immediately routed to packing/shipping area, bypassing further picks.
- Can route totes or cartons based on shipping label, reusable tote ID, carton content label, etc...
- Divert to error lane if any picks are missing.
- Route empty totes back to order induction area.
Packing / Shipping
- Rule-based routing of totes and cartons to required lanes.
- Ability to consolidate split orders to the same lane.
- Round-robin load balancing (e.g. send all UPS cartons to one of 4 lanes).
- Save carton weight received from in-line weight scale in WMS.
- Trigger shipping system to rate and ship carton based on actual or calculated carton weight.
- Execute user defined code snippets (e.g. trigger WMS to print packing slip on last carton scan).
System Architecture
- Fully multi-threaded server design with typical response time < 100ms.
- System can be configured for fault-tolerant operation and 100% uptime.
- Ethernet TCP/IP communication with conveyor PLC.
- Can be configured to act as a client or server.
- Operates as a Windows service and can be installed remotely in a server room.
- Web browser user interface allows remote monitoring of system.
Interfaces
- Native interface for Radio Beacon and Accellos One WMS.
- Define ad-hock rules for routing totes based on static barcodes (this method will work in any warehouse, independent of a WMS).
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