Patent ID: 8082059
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. A method of order-picking articles from a number of order-picking zones including a number of providing sections and a corresponding number of order-depositing sections, by a number of order-pickers, the method comprising: generating zone orders for the order-picking zones using an order-picking computer; communicating the zone orders to the order-pickers; collecting articles from the providing sections according to the zone orders; and depositing the articles in the order-depositing sections, wherein each of the order-picking zones respectively comprise one providing section where a certain range of articles is provided and one order-depositing section where articles collected in accordance with one zone order are deposited, thereby forming side-by-side arranged order-picking zones which form an order-picking region, wherein only one respective order-picker collects articles in one of the order-picking zones, wherein the number of order-picking zones is equal to the number of order-pickers, and wherein the order-picking computer sets boundaries which the order-pickers, during the collecting of the articles, cannot cross, between adjacent order-picking zones in a variable manner during the collecting of the articles by means of a zone-allocation strategy thereby adapting at least one of a respective size of the adjacent order-picking zones and the number of the order-picking zones in the order-picking region in reaction to variable order-picking influencing factors.