EASYFIELD

EASYFIELD is a “middleware” that permits to control the warehouse handling using pre-existing packages, or part of them.
It supplies a “front-end” consisting of simple in/out tables that enables the operator to pilot the elements of a handling system or specific equipments.
It is compatible with EasyStor though being totally independent from it.

Boxtech Module

Cumulative picking activities are, in some cases, very efficient solutions though they require afterwards product sorting on the single orders. Boxtech is an aided sorting system that offers a simple solution to problems at moderate prices.

• Put to light sorting system
• Item recognition via barcode
• Light indication on destination bay

Windtech Module

It has the same functions of Boxtech but it has been designed to receive pallets or special equipments (for example hangers) and it can be closed with a window when it is not being used to reduce the occupation of space on the disk.

Quick Pick Module

“QUICK-PICK” is a system used to organise optimised material picking in the warehouse: its peculiar  feature is that the user is guided by light indicators that light up near the points containing the material to be picked.

This plant is essentially made of a package handling system capable of sending the empty boxes towards the operators and transferring the filled boxes at the end of the line. At cycle begin each box is automatically labelled with a tag with the progressive univocal code assigned to the box itself in clear text and barcode.

Previously the system calculated this operation and depending on the picking orders made available by the Company Management System, the system calculates the best combination of boxes to use: the Quick Pick inborn filling algorithm, envisages that each item in the database has to be described in volumetric terms, instead of overlapping and combination indexes allowed or not to other items.

Each picking operator works in his own delimited sector: the packages containing the materials that he must pick are automatically switched from the main line.

The light sequence lights up in the sector near the package: the operator picks the material and fills the box, with the possibility to correct the quantity whenever necessary.

The package correctly filled is manually pushed onto the delivery line from where it will be automatically transferred to the next sector or directly to the line end.

At the end of the line the plant is usually completed with an automatic weighing system often combined with a labeller, this being necessary when the label applied at the beginning of the roll band (package tag) cannot contain all data needed by the customer or the carrier (for ex. real weight of the package or packing list).

The computerization of the warehouse activities consists of a departmental network of PCs (Ethernet technology) equipped with printers for label printouts. It is possible to directly connect to the Company management system for data exchange in both directions, whose purpose is to keep the accounting adjustment between the two systems.

Aims of the QUICK PICK system:

The implementation of the Quick Pick system basically aims at reaching 3 targets:

• remarkable increase in productivity and efficiency
• higher control over the correctness of the performed transactions
• scale conversion and reliability of the management IT system

Quick Pick is particularly efficient in case of split orders (extreme picking), small sizes of the goods (small parts), big volumes.

Quick Pick can be integrated with the EASYSTOR package, designed for the complete warehouse management also in terms of loading, stocking, unloading and picking re-allocation activities, which are not included in the standard pick to light system. The interface with the other WMS is through the EasyField module.

Pack Line Module

Each warehouse needs an area where to consolidate the orders and to prepare the final packing according to the relevant shipping terms. Depending on the different requirements, there can be packing areas consisting of more machines (taping, strapping, filming machines, palletizers) or sorting lines.

• Management system of automatic packaging lines
• Weighing, labelling and sequential sorting of the packages
• Open and configurable architecture

Front-end tables: incoming tables

The system description is obtained through the configuration of point/branch tables that allow drawing the physical and logic route of the objects.

Packages: info packages to handle

Routes: route to be made by each package

Massive: info massive picking to be sorted in the packages

Labels: info label/s to apply on the package

Packaging List: info packing list to print

Final destination: final sorting bay

Rejects: reject message by package

Returns: return confirmation of the rejected package

First package labelling: return of the identification tag  applied on each package

Passages: confirmation of the point reached by each package

Massive: info sorted massive pickings of the packages

Quick Pick: pick to light picking numbers performed for each package

Weight: real weight detected by package

Sorting: effective final sorting bay