In both storage and assembly industry, the process of choosing one of the most labor-intensive functions. In fact, it may take up to 50% of the workforce to change budget. For this reason, companies are constantly looking for ways to make this process to increase productivity and increasing customer expectations to maximize improvement. There are three important factors involved when you pick to improve. The first is the productivity or “pick-rate, half the time it takes to get an order from order entry to shipping dock, also called the” cycle time “, and finally the accuracy of the picks.
Several systems are available to all these factors to improve. However, most of these systems technologies such as barcodes and RFID tags or offer voice recognition technology which is often too large for smaller halls and assemblies. These systems are generally used only for large warehouses, including maintenance of complex supply chain traceability. Therefore, for smaller rooms, requires alternative solutions.
A cost-effective system for smaller rooms and meetings (which not only increases accuracy but also productivity) is a pick-by-light solution (PBL). A PBL-system consists of lights and LED displays for each pick location. Software is used to light each element is included and will be required to collect the amount shown. After picking the item, the user presses the lit button indicates that the item was selected. The system will highlight any subsequent items included, until the entire order is filled. development to find the optimal solution PBL, this is the kind of system SSI Schaefer decided.
In general, most PBL systems directly accessible from the warehouse database server. Therefore, the implementation of decentralized GUIs more the responsibility of the ERP system providers.

Figure 1: The central panel PC as the main interface, the i-Pick Pick achieve output of 600 lines per hour and a 300% increase in efficiency, with a 10-fold increase in picking quality combined compared with conventional picking methods.
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