Storage system having storage structures rotated in different planes

Abstract

The invention relates to a storage system having a storage arrangement for storing loading units, and to a method for shifting loading units in a storage system. In order to simplify transporting operations during the shifting of loading units (3) in a storage system (1) having a storage arrangement (2), provision is made for the storage arrangement (2) to have at least a first storage region (4) and a second storage region (5), which is arranged vertically (6) above the first storage region (4). The first storage region (4) has a first storage structure (8), which is formed by first storage and retrieval routes (7); the second storage region (5) has a second storage structure (10), which is formed by second storage and retrieval routes (9). A first orientation (11) of the first storage structure (8) is rotated in relation to a second orientation (12) of the second storage structure (10). During the operation of shifting the loading units (3) in the storage system (1), a loading unit (3) is stored in or retrieved from (110) one of the two storage regions (4, 5) of the storage system (1) and transported (120) in said storage region (4, 5). The loading unit (3) is transferred (130) out of the one storage region (4, 5) into the other storage region (4, 5) and the storage unit (3) is transported (140) in the other storage region (4, 5).

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a storage system with a storage device for storing loading units and to a method for transferring loading units in the storage system. Background technique [0002] As part of the task of material economy, warehouse management in production and logistics is understood to mean the storage of materials or goods (hereinafter often referred to as loading units), eg storage of goods. Warehousing here means the anticipated interruption of the material flow of the enterprise, ie the creation of intentionally formed buffer stocks. [0003] For this purpose, storage management requires a storage system with a storage device in which or in which loading units can be temporarily stored, that is to say can be stored and / or retrieved and transported. [0004] Such conventional storage systems with storage devices are, for example, high-level racking bays with high-level racks (or simply racks) arranged structured in generally parallel (she...

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Problems solved by technology

[0015] If in the material flow of the loading unit, i.e. when transporting the loading unit from the handling area to its rack and storing it there in or out of its specific position in the rack, several different conveyor technologies, such as Road conveying equipment, transfer equipment, rack handling equipment are used or required, which increases the complexity of the storage system and makes it complex and expensive

[0016] Track conveyor technology, such as electric floor rails, electric hanging rails or continuous conveyors, in particular has the disadvantage that they are expensive due to their complexity and cause long travel times due to the long and complicated roadway guidance. time

In particular, continuous conveyors have the disadvantage that the transport times of the loaded units are long

For this purpose, the control (material flow control) of the loading unit at the transfer point (for example, in the front area from the track conveyor technology via the transfer transport technology to the rack handling device or correspondingly from the track conveyor technology to the processing area) is complicated

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