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Inspection and assurance system

a technology of inspection and assurance system, applied in the direction of conveyors, electric digital data processing, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of increasing the load of inspection work, shortening the number of conveyors and sorting at the downstream side, and complicated working in order to cope with different requirements of different clients

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-08-31
CHUO LOGISTICS ENG
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[0026] An object of the present invention is to provide an inspection and assurance system for performing inspection and assurance accurately and efficiently while sorting commodity delivered from a supplier.

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As a result, problems in processing occur such that conveying and sorting number at the downstream side becomes short.
Working is complicated in order to cope with different requirements of different clients.
For this reason, the load of inspection work increases.
In case of error, a penalty is added, and a large number of serious problems on physical distribution quality are created.
Therefore, since loss due to shortage is large, actual commodity inspection is necessarily performed at a storefront under these circumstances.
In this case, commodity inspection at each store is troublesome, which results in inefficiency.
Further, the situation that an unskilled sales person carries out commodity inspection frequently occurs, which frequently results in a problem in that it takes significant time for retrieving an actual commodity from a trade name, or an error occurs in commodity inspection itself.
There occurs a problem that an order including many types of commodities in small numbers thereof increases and “the commodity inspection work is complicated and diversified at a time of commodity delivery”.
However such work imposes a large burden on the physical distribution company due to the work required for error correction, increases in time for being present at the inspection, and the like.
(a) A driver of the physical distribution company is consigned with only the distribution business, but that person is required to be present until the content or commodity inspection is completed, which results in time loss for that person.
Further, a handling rule for the case that mismatching occurs between an actual commodity and a form therefor is unclear.
Where the delivery is completed with only the form correction is a good case, and such a problem that delivery completion is rejected until shortage is supplemented or delivered occurs in rare cases.
But, when that person is a beginner, such as a new person or a temporary employee, it may occur frequently that their commodity inspection work is poor and their handling of mismatching cases is performed inefficiently.
“Unclearness in clearance” causes serious conditions such as notification of shortage to the supplier after delivery, leading to a loss of reliability.
If the articles are delivered in random order according to every supplier, this causes interference of service, and a dedicated person for reception becomes the burden of the retailer.
This indicates problems of actual commodity clearance and difficulty of resolution.
These problems are caused by computerization and the speed up of shipping order work and receipt of order work.

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[0038] (Sorting Method and Apparatus)(FIGS. 1, 4)

[0039] A delivery inspection center 1 of FIG. 1 is provided between a plurality of suppliers and a plurality of retailers and has a sorting apparatus 10.

[0040] The sorting apparatus 10 has a first sorting / conveying line 11 and a second sorting / conveying line 21. The second sorting / conveying line 21 has a fractionating zone 31 and a segmenting zone 32, or has a large case article sorting line 41.

[0041] (First Sorting / Conveying Line 11)

[0042] The first sorting / conveying line 11 has a stock article (DC article) supplying section 12 as a place for stock and a loop shaped sorting conveyer circulating commodities supplied from another supplier's article (TC article) supplying section 13. These commodities are sorted into a plurality of the second sorting / conveying lines 21 (branching destinations). Further, the first sorting / conveying line 11 has a surplus article branching section 14 for returning the surplus articles which is not nece...

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THE SECOND EMBODIMENT

[0190] (FIG. 2)

[0191] The sorting apparatus 110 shown in FIG. 2 differs from the sorting apparatus shown in FIG. 1 such that the second sorting / conveying line 21 is provided with the case unit passing article branch line 111, surplus article segregation branch line 112, and surplus article returning line 113. The sorting apparatus 110 is effective when the case unit branch amount from the first sorting / conveying line 11 to the second sorting / conveying line 21 is large.

[0192] The case article branched to the case unit passing article branch line 111 is read out by bar code reader BCR 111A. Further, the case article is read out by bar code reader BCR 111B provided at the entrance of each zone of the segmenting zone 32. The case article is sent to a corresponding zone based on the read out data.

[0193] The commodity branched to the surplus article segregation branch line 112 is read out by a bar code reader 112A. The fetching indicator 112B performs the fetching ...

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THE THIRD EMBODIMENT

[0194] (FIG. 3)

[0195] The sorting apparatus 120 shown in FIG. 3 differs from the sorting apparatus 10 shown in FIG. 1 such that there are provided a subsection line 121 and a pass line 122 as a commodity provision system for the first sorting / conveying line 11. A plurality of second sorting / conveying lines 21 are constituted by the branch lines 123 which are not necessary to be returned and are taken to be dedicated lines in every area A, B, and C. The sorting apparatus 120 separates the commodity of single article case 2, or singleness container 3, introduced to the subsection line 121 into necessary article and surplus article of each area A, area B or area C based on instruction of subsection indicator 124A of subsection working area 124. The necessary articles are subjected to subsection into tray 5 in each area A, area B, area C. A label issued by the label issuing machine 124B is attached to this tray 5. Bar code reader BCR 121A of the exit of the subsecti...

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A sorting apparatus 10 which uses a sorting / conveying line 11 with branch destination, including a branch line 22 for sorting the commodities more than a quantity necessary for the branch destination and a surplus article returning line 23 for returning surplus commodities after removing a required quantity to the sorting / conveying line 11.

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a sorting method and its apparatus as well as an inspection and assurance system. BACKGROUND ART [0002] Conventionally, a sorting apparatus sorts commodities of required quantity in answer to an order from a retailer during the process of a business transaction between a supplier as the seller and a retailer as the buyer. Generally, such sorting apparatus includes a stock picking process at an upstream side and a conveying / sorting process at a downstream side (DC type). [0003] A conventional sorting apparatus has the following problems. [0004] (1) In recent years, segmented delivery from each team to every individual in the co-op is seen. Thus, it becomes necessary to cope with small order processing. As a result, problems in processing occur such that conveying and sorting number at the downstream side becomes short. [0005] (2) Integration of functions such as common use of the physical distribution center, lumping conveying, ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F7/00B65G1/137B65G37/02
CPCB65G1/1373B65G37/02
Inventor TANAKA, NOBUHIRO
Owner CHUO LOGISTICS ENG
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