JPH085540B2 - Sorting display equipment - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sorting display facility used when sorting small-quantity, large-variety products that are not standardized.

Conventional technology In the conventional sorting of small-quantity, high-mix-type products, the worker confirms the received products for each product, searches the preset sorting destination list, and the worker transports the products for each destination. I reconfirmed the destination and sorted.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the conventional sorting of non-standardized small-quantity, high-mix-type products, the worker has a large amount of work such as searching the sorting destination list, and the burden of preventing mistakes is large. The efficiency was poor. Furthermore, if all sorts are not completed, it is not possible to confirm whether the sort for each destination is completed, and shipping is often delayed.

The present invention solves the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sorting display facility that reduces the burden on workers, facilitates the sorting work, and improves the work efficiency.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above problems, the present invention divides a sorting zone into a single block or a plurality of blocks, and displays, for each block, the number of a trolley provided with a product to be sorted, which is provided at a block entrance. It is equipped with a trolley number indicator, a bay indicator that indicates that products are sorted in each bay of a block, and a pickup indicator that displays a product identification code for each product destination of a block. The trolley code, the product code of the product, and the product sorting code entered for each trolley are stored, and when the end of the sorting of the previous trolley in the block is confirmed, the trolley number is displayed on the display unit by the trolley code. Display and turn on the bay indicator of the bay where sorting is performed according to the product sorting code, and the product sorting code and the product code are displayed. A display control device for displaying a product identification code is provided at a sorting destination where sorting is performed.

With the above configuration, the display control device stores, for each dolly, a dolly code, a product code of a product loaded on the dolly, and a product sorting code, and stores these codes,
When the trolleys in front of the block are sorted, the trolley number indicator displays the number of the trolley to be sorted, so the worker confirms the trolley number on the trolley number indicator and presses the trolley to enter the block. And
The display control device turns on the bay indicator of the bay for sorting, displays the product identification code on the pickup indicator of the sorting destination for sorting, so that the worker confirms the bay for sorting with the bay indicator and picks up. Products are sorted according to the product identification code on the display unit.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
The items to be sorted are clothes.

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a sorting zone provided with sorting display maintenance of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sketch drawing thereof, and FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of the sorting display facility of the present invention. The sorting zone is divided into 4 blocks, and each block is provided with a sorting cart 1 that constitutes a sorting destination and faces each other across a passage.
As shown in FIG. 4, a hanger bar 3 is attached between the front and rear side walls 2A, 2B of the sorting cart 1, and a plurality of clothes 4 are hung on the hanger bar 3 via hangers 5, respectively. Also, a case 7 for storing the sorting tag 6 having the sorting code shown in FIG. 5 printed is provided on the upper portion of the front side wall 2A so that the sorting destination can be sorted even when the sorting carriage 1 is full and pulled out. It is configured so that it can be confirmed by the tag 6. In addition, a pickup display 8 for displaying a product identification code for sorting the clothes 4 is provided on the sorting cart 1.
And the sorting destination is displayed. A case 15 for accommodating the same tag as the sorting tag 6 is provided. As shown in FIG. 6, the pickup display 8 includes a digital display 8A for displaying the size and the number of clothes 4 to be sorted and a sorting cart 1.
It consists of a confirmation switch 8B that is pushed when the sorting to

In addition, a trolley number indicator that displays the number of the trolley 9 loaded with the clothes 4 to be sorted is provided above the entrance of each block.
Bay indicators 11 and 12 are provided on the left and right sides of 10 and the truck number indicator 10 to indicate that the sorting cart 1 of the bay has clothes 4 for sorting. The dolly number indicator 10 is
As shown in FIG. 7, a digital display 10A for displaying a truck number and a confirmation switch 10B to be pushed when entering a block.
And the bay indicators 11 and 12 are shown in FIG. 8 (a).
As shown in (b) and (b), when the built-in lamps 11A and 12A are turned on, the lighting state can be confirmed from the front side and the rear side.

This is a display control device provided at the entrance of the first block for display control of the trolley number display 10, the bay displays 11 and 12, and the pickup display 8, and is a controller including a microcomputer equipped with a monitor and a keyboard.
I am going to 13 The controller 13 has a dolly code attached to the dolly 9, a product code of the clothes 4 (type of the clothes 4,
Size, color data) and the sorting code of the clothing 4 is written from the IC card via the IC card reader 14,
A truck signal a including the truck code, the commodity code, and the commodity sorting code is input.

The configuration of the controller 13 is shown in the block diagram of FIG.
In FIG. 9, reference numeral 21 is a memory control unit for inputting the truck signal a, and the data of the truck signal a input by the memory control unit 21 is stored in the memory unit 22. The sorting zone is divided into 4 blocks, and in order to enable sorting in each block, four display unit controllers 23 to 26 are provided for each block, and each display unit controller 23 to 26 sorts in each block. Input memory units 27 to 30 for storing the data of the trolley 9 for performing the above are provided. Display controller 23 ~
When the sorting in the block is completed, 26 is the data of the truck 9 that was sorting in the previous block, and the indicator controller 23 of the first block is the data of the memory unit 22, that is, the data of the truck 9 that is sorting next. Your own input memory section
Enter in 27 to 30. In addition, the memory control unit 21 is provided unless the data of the trolley 9 in the memory 22 is transferred to the input memory unit 27.
The trolley signal a is not accepted, and a selection signal b is input from the keyboard to select 4 blocks at the same time by one trolley 9 in the sorting zone or every 4 blocks, and 4 blocks at the same time. When performing, the data in the input memory unit 27 of the display controller 23 of the first block is switched so as to be the data of all display controller 23 to 26, and the memory is stored when the sorting is completed in all display controller 23 to 26. It is switched so that the data of the next truck 9 is transferred from 22 to the input memory unit 27. Also,
Reference numeral 31 is a monitor output unit, and each display controller 23 to 26
When the full signals c _{1 to} c ₄ of the sorting cart 1 are input from the above, this is displayed on the monitor of the controller 13.

Next, the control of the display controller 23 to 26 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The data of the truck 9 is input from the input memory units 27 to 30 (step 41), and when input, this data is updated, that is, it is confirmed whether or not it is the data of the truck 9 to be sorted (step 42). If is not updated, the process ends. If the data of the truck 9 is updated,
The dolly number is displayed by the dolly code.
(Step 43), and according to the product sorting code,
The sorting destination is searched and stored in the block, the bay indicators 11 and 12 of the bay where the sorting truck 1 of the sorting destination is located are lit (step 44), and the pick-up display 8 of the sorting truck 1 of the sorting destination displays the clothes 4 Display the size and number of (step 4
Five). When the confirmation switch 10B of the truck number display 10 is pressed, the sorting of the truck 9 is confirmed (step
46, 47). When the clothes 4 are moved (sorted) to the sorting cart 1 according to the display of the pickup indicator 8 and the confirmation switch 8B of the pickup indicator 8 is pressed (step
48), delete the sorting destination that was searched and memorized (step
49), turn off the pickup indicator 8 (step 5)
0). Then, it is confirmed whether the bay (left) sorting destination remains (step 51), and if it remains, it is confirmed whether the bay (right) sorting destination remains (step 52). Return to 48, and turn off the bay indicator 12 on the right if there is no remaining (step 53). If there is no sorting destination in step 51, the left bay indicator 11 is turned off (step 54), and it is confirmed whether there is a sorting destination in the bay (right) (step 55). Returning to step 48, if there is no remaining light, the bay display 12 on the right is turned off (step 56), and since all the sorting is completed, the data or memory of the truck 9 of the previous block to the respective input memory units 27 to 30. The command signals d _{1 to} d ₄ for transferring the data of the truck 9 of the section 22 are output (step 57), and the number of the clothes 4 sorted for each sorting truck 1 in the block is counted,
It is checked whether or not there is a sorting cart 1 that is full by counting a certain number of sheets (step 58). If there is a sorting cart 1 that is full, a full signal c ₁ ~ consisting of the truck code of the sorting cart ₁ ~ output c ₄ (step 59),
If there is no sorting cart 1 that is full, the process ends.

 The operation of the sorting operation with the above configuration will be described.

When the carriage 9 is conveyed to the entrance of the sorting zone, the worker puts the IC card of the carriage 9 on the IC card reader 14 and causes the controller 13 to read the carriage code of the carriage 9 and the product code of the product loaded on the carriage 9 and The data of the truck 9 consisting of the commodity sorting code is input. If there is another trolley 9 waiting at the entrance of the sorting zone, the data of the trolley 9 is not input. When the sorting of the first block is completed, the controller 13 displays the number of the dolly 9 for which data has been input on the dolly number display 10, confirms it, and presses the confirmation switch 10B to enter the first block. In addition, the bay indicators 11 and 12 are used to confirm which bay the sorting cart 1 is in, and the clothing 4 is transferred to the sorting cart 1 based on the size and the number of the clothing 4 displayed on the pick-up display 8 for confirmation. Press switch 8B. When the sorting in the first block is completed, the left and right bay indicators 11 and 12 are turned off, so check that the bay indicators 11 and 12 are turned off, move to the second block, and move to the second block. Wait until the trolley number of the trolley number display 10 becomes the trolley number of the trolley 9 that has been sorted, and confirm the trolley number.
The blocks are sorted in the same manner as the first block, and similarly, the third block and the fourth block are sorted.
In addition, when 4 blocks are simultaneously performed by one trolley 9, the trolley number display 10 is the trolley 9 that sorts from the beginning.
The truck number of is displayed.

In this way, the worker only has to sort the clothes 4 according to the instructions of the respective indicators 8, 10 and 11 of the sorting display equipment, and the sorting work while searching for the sorting destination in the list is eliminated, and sorting is extremely efficient. You can do the work. Further, the sorting carriage 1 that has been filled can be confirmed by the monitor display of the controller 13, and the packing and shipping can be smoothly performed sequentially.

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION As described above, according to the present invention, the display control device sorts each block when the truck code, the product code of the product loaded on the left side of the platform, and the product sorting code are input. The trolley number to be displayed is displayed on the trolley number display, the bay display with the sorting destination for sorting is lit,
Since the product identification code is displayed on the pickup indicator of the sorting destination, the worker can check these indicators and sort the products according to the instruction. As in the conventional method, the sorting destination for each product is searched in the list. Since the work is eliminated, the sorting work can be carried out smoothly with extremely high efficiency and without burden.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a sorting zone equipped with sorting display equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sketch of a sorting zone equipped with the sorting display equipment, and FIG. 3 is a configuration of the sorting display equipment. 4 and 5 are front views of the sorting cart of FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is a front view of the tag of FIG. 4, FIG. 6 is a front view of the pickup indicator of FIG. 1, and FIG. 8 is a front view of the bay indicator of FIG. 1, and FIG. 9 is a block diagram of the controller of FIG. FIG. 10 is a flow chart of the display controller unit of FIG. 1 ... sorting trolley, 4 ... clothing (product), 8 ... pickup indicator, 9 ... trolley, 10 ... truck number indicator, 11,12 ... bay indicator, 13 ... controller (display control apparatus).

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A sorting zone is divided into a single block or a plurality of blocks, and a truck number indicator is provided at each block entrance for displaying a truck number of a truck loaded with sorting products. It is equipped with a bay display that displays that products are sorted in the bay, and a pickup display that displays the product identification code for each block product sorting destination. When the product code and product sorting code are stored and the end of sorting of the previous truck in the block is confirmed, the truck number is displayed on the truck number display by the truck code, and sorting is performed by the product sorting code. The bay indicator of the bay is turned on, and the product identification code is displayed on the product sorting code and the sorting destination that sorts by the product code. Sorting display equipment with that display control device.