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i-Pick and pick@work

Fast and efficient order-picking or assembly

Pick-by-Light (PbL) systems automate the composition of specific customer orders quickly and efficiently. They
achieve an enormous storage compression and reduce path and orderpicking times.

SSI Schaefer, Graz and Neunkirchen, have now developed two new variants of the PbL: i-Pick and pick@work, which can be integrated without any major programming costs into a warehouse by the user affordably and effortlessly thanks to a modular-kit system. The user installs the entire PbL application himself without any special IT knowledge in a brief period with the help of a carefully-designed graphical user interface − the so-called Touch Panel PC. The system handles everything from the connection to an order database via the installation of operating features and the assignment of storage positions up to day-to-day use. The integration into the in-house network and product database is performed as simply as the statistical evaluation of storage/retrieval frequencies.

Orders are selected via the display or started by scanning the order number. The storage positions of the parts being order-picked light up. The i-Pick can achieve a pick performance of 600 lines/ our and an increase in efficiency of 300%, combined with a 10-fold rise in the order-picking quality compared with conventional order-picking methods.

The pick@work is an extension of thei-Pick and is configured through a software extension in the Touch Panel. The
system is used in particular for coordinating assembly workplaces and component optimisation. The storage positions
for the parts being built light up in the correct sequence and these are assembled step-by-step with the help of the display guide, which makes work manageable and effective.