Picking Technologies
Picking technologies are used for picking several levels of product for packing orders. Pick modules are available for rack picking, pallet picking, carton flow, and shelving. It is not uncommon to have a combination of picking systems within large warehouse centers, and it is also possible to get a picking technology customized for your distribution center’s needs. Orders can be picked to several types of locations including totes, conveyors, pallet jacks, carts, as wells as other forms of equipment to be moved to the packing and shipping area. There are a variety of technologies and methods for picking orders. The most common of these include Pick to Light, Pick to Display, Pick to Voice, and RF Mobile Handheld devices. Depending on your operation and goals, one or several of these technologies may be utilized to increase productivity and accuracy while reducing cycle time. Some examples of how picking technologies can improve your distribution center are:
- An increase in picking rates
- A reduction in floor space and aisle space needed for picking
- Allows for a more vertical storage facility
- Allows for a higher rate of restocking and product rotation
Bastian regularly incorporates order picking technologies into material handling systems.
Picking Technologies
Pick To Voice (PTV) Technology
Using advanced speech recognition, our voice systems enable operators to speak naturally and easily. Productivity
is often enhanced from 150 to 350 lines per person hour because operators have
full use of their hands and eyes while picking.
Pick To Light (PTL) Technology
Pick To Light (PTL) Technology provides an efficient and very accurate method of picking, putting, sorting,
and assembly of products or parts in a wide variety of applications. Picking instructions are immediate and
easy for an operator to follow.
Pick To Display (PTD) Technology
The Pick To Display (PTD) device represents the latest technology for picking and putting products. Pick
To Display utilizes a bright color OLED display screen for unsurpassed image and text viewing. You now have
the ability to show product images, special instructions, and other critical compliance information to your
pickers.
RF Mobile Picking
Handheld mobile RF scanners offer an easy to expand your solution to help meet your
needs today and as you grow. Picking is just one of the many functions where an RF mobile
handheld device can be used to maximize your order picking operations.
Other Picking Technologies
Kiva Mobile Robots & Automated Order Fulfillment
The Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System (Kiva MFS) uses a breakthrough parallel processing approach to order fulfillment.
The unique material handling system simultaneously improves productivity, speed, accuracy, and flexibility.
Kiva’s complete warehouse automation fulfillment solution is more flexible, more accurate, more productive,
much easier to use and more cost effective. Kiva is an order picking system like no other.
KollMorgen Pick-n-Go® Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV)
KollMorgen Pick-n-Go® Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) can improve your picking operations
efficiency 40% over operator driven picking operations. With the Pick-n-Go® you are able to increase productivity and decrease costs by developing the resources you already have.
What are Order Picking Operations in Order Fulfillment Systems
Order picking is the removal of items from inventory locations to fulfill an order.
The combination of the automation technologies, material handling equipment, and industrial automation software used in picking operations is referred to as an Order Picking System or an Order Fulfillment System.
Picking Methodologies
Parallel Picking
Picking happens in multiple areas by several operators at the same time for the same order. The different parts of the order get married up to be packed and shipped
Pick and Pass
An order is started in one area, picked in that area and passed to the next area for picking
Batch Picking
Multiple orders are grouped together and picked with a single pass through an area
Single Order Picking
One operator picks the entire order and moves through the facility to different areas to pick
Wave Picking
Grouping orders together to all be picked at the same time create a "pick wave"
Order Picking Solutions
Order Picking Solutions
Bastian offers a full line of order picking technologies to automate order fulfillment systems.
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