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FEATURE / COMPOSITES KIT TING SYSTEM
Sorting Strategy
The Automated Kitting system uses a sorting and
ordering/sequencing method that is based on a
sorting algorithm. This sorting algorithm can use
two sorting methods: Kit First Sorting (KFS) or Layer First Sorting (LFS). The term 'layer' refers to the
required position of a ply in the kit. The top ply in a
kit is at layer 1, and the bottom ply a layer x.
Kit First Sorting (KFS) Method
When a ply arrives at the pickup location on the
conveyor belt, its kit number is retrieved from the
Automated Kitting manager and a call is made to
the buffer unit to present a specific tray. On this
tray, all plies of a single kit are placed in the order
that is determined by the moment that the plies arrived at the pickup location. Each kit is assigned to
a specific tray. Once all plies of a kit are picked, sequencing can start to put all plies at the right layer
within the kit.
For sequencing, the tray that contains the kit
to be ordered is taken out of the buffer unit and
placed at the ordering rack in front of the buffer.
Next, each ply is individually picked from the stack
and distributed over the remaining trays in the buffer unit. This is called scattering. Note that these
trays can have other kits, but that is not a problem.
The system can pick plies from a stack without distorting the plies underneath. Once all plies are distributed, the stack is built up again by picking the
plies in the correct order, called gathering. This is
visualized in Figure 4.
Each scatter and gather actions take 1 tray request, thus for ordering 10 plies, 20 tray requests are
needed. Presenting a tray takes a certain amount of
time, thus by minimizing the number of tray request it is possible to increase the performance of
the ordering process by using a variant on the KFS
algorithm, called the KFS+.
Figure 4. KFS sorting method visualized.
Figure 5. KFS+ method visualized.
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