Machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing sorting method and system

Abstract

The invention discloses a machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing sorting method and system. The method comprises the following steps: determining a to-be-delivered material according to a to-be-produced machine tool order; the to-be-delivered materials are taken out of the material storage warehouse; and according to the materials required by the to-be-produced machine tools in the to-be-produced machine tool order, sorting the warehouse-out materials into material combinations corresponding to the to-be-produced machine tools, and sequentially outputting the material combinations to a discharge port. The scheme provided by the invention can improve the warehouse management efficiency of the machine tool industry.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of warehousing technology, and in particular to a warehousing sorting method and system for machine tool manufacturing industry. Background Art

[0002] The machine tool production industry is an important part of the manufacturing industry. Its production process involves the storage and management of a large number of parts and raw materials. Traditional warehouse management usually relies on manual sorting and manual recording. Workers search, take out and store parts and raw materials according to the bill of materials. This method can maintain normal work operations in small enterprises, but under the demand for large-scale production and rapid delivery, relying on manual management of warehouses is obviously unable to meet production needs.

[0003] The current machine tool manufacturing industry, in order to improve competitiveness, has high demands on product quality, delivery speed and production costs. The traditional manual warehouse management method has been unable to meet the industry's needs in terms of efficiency, accuracy and real-time performance. A new warehouse management method is urgently needed. Summary of the invention

[0004] The present invention provides a storage and sorting method and system for the machine tool manufacturing industry, thereby improving the storage management efficiency of the machine tool industry.

[0005] According to one aspect of the present invention, a storage and sorting method for machine tool manufacturing industry is provided, comprising:

[0006] Determine the materials to be shipped out based on the machine tool orders to be produced;

[0007] Take out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse;

[0008] According to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced in the order for the machine tools to be produced, the materials shipped out of the warehouse are sorted into material combinations corresponding to each machine tool to be produced and output to the discharge port in sequence.

[0009] In one embodiment, determining materials to be shipped out according to the machine tool orders to be produced includes:

[0010] Determine all the material lists for each machine tool to be produced in the machine tool order to be produced;

[0011] Combine the same materials in the bill of materials and determine the materials to be shipped out.

[0012] In one embodiment, taking out materials to be shipped from a material storage warehouse includes:

[0013] Query the location of each material to be shipped in the material list from the material storage warehouse;

[0014] Batch take out the materials to be shipped from the bill of materials from each material location in the material storage warehouse.

[0015] In one embodiment, the method further comprises:

[0016] Determine the historical outbound path of each material based on the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse;

[0017] The material storage locations in the material storage warehouse are adjusted according to the historical outbound paths of each material so that the weighted sum of the outbound paths of each material is minimized.

[0018] In one embodiment, taking out materials to be shipped from a material storage warehouse includes:

[0019] Determine the production status of each machine tool in the order of machine tools to be produced;

[0020] According to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped out are taken out from the material storage warehouse in turn.

[0021] According to another aspect of the present invention, a storage and sorting system for a machine tool manufacturing industry is provided, comprising:

[0022] Warehouse management system, used to determine the materials to be shipped out according to the machine tool orders to be produced;

[0023] The material sorting station is used to take out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse; according to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced in the order of the machine tool to be produced, the materials to be shipped are sorted into the material combination corresponding to each machine tool to be produced and output to the discharge port in sequence.

[0024] In one embodiment, the warehouse management system is specifically used to determine all the bills of materials for each machine tool to be produced in the order for the machine tool to be produced; merge the same materials in the bills of materials to determine the materials to be shipped out;

[0025] The material sorting station is specifically used to query the location of each material to be shipped in the material list from the material storage warehouse; and to batch take out the materials to be shipped in the material list from each material location in the material storage warehouse.

[0026] In one embodiment, the warehouse management system is also used to determine the historical outbound path of each material based on the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse; and adjust the material storage location in the material storage warehouse based on the historical outbound path of each material so that the weighted sum of the outbound paths of each material is minimized.

[0027] In one embodiment, the material sorting station is specifically used to determine the production status of each machine tool in the order of machine tools to be produced; according to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped out are taken out from the material storage warehouse in sequence.

[0028] In one embodiment, the system further comprises:

[0029] The human-computer interaction interface is used to show users the working status of the warehouse management system and material sorting station.

[0030] The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention determines the materials to be shipped out according to the orders of the machine tools to be produced and takes out the materials, then sorts the materials to be shipped out according to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced and outputs them to the discharge port in sequence, thereby realizing automatic sorting of materials for machine tool manufacturing, thereby improving the efficiency of machine tool manufacturing and avoiding errors that may be caused by manual sorting.

[0031] It should be understood that the contents described in this section are not intended to identify the key or important features of the embodiments of the present invention, nor are they intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Other features of the present invention will become easily understood through the following description. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0032] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required for use in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present invention. For ordinary technicians in this field, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative work.

[0033] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of a process flow of a storage and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

[0034] Figure 2 A schematic structural diagram of a storage and sorting system for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided by an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0035] In order to enable those skilled in the art to better understand the scheme of the present invention, the technical scheme in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in this field without creative work should fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0036] It should be noted that the terms "candidate", "target", etc. in the specification and claims of the present invention and the above-mentioned drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or sequence. It should be understood that the data used in this way can be interchanged where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the present invention described herein can be implemented in an order other than those illustrated or described herein. In addition, the terms "including" and "having" and any variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, for example, a process, method, system, product or device that includes a series of steps or units is not necessarily limited to those steps or units that are clearly listed, but may include other steps or units that are not clearly listed or inherent to these processes, methods, products or devices.

[0037] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of a process flow of a storage and sorting method for a machine tool manufacturing industry provided by an embodiment of the present invention, such as Figure 1 As shown, the storage and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided in this embodiment includes:

[0038] Step S110, determining materials to be shipped out according to the machine tool orders to be produced.

[0039] The machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing and sorting method provided in the embodiment of the present application is applied to the warehousing management of the machine tool industry, and manages the material outbound and sorting of the machine tool industry to improve the efficiency of warehousing management. The machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing and sorting method is executed by a machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing and sorting system, and the machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing and sorting system includes a management system for storing, taking out, and sorting stored materials and a sorting system for taking out and sorting materials. Among them, the management system can be set in a computer or server local to the material storage warehouse, or the management system can also be set in the cloud.

[0040] In order to improve the production efficiency of machine tools, it is important to quickly and accurately take out the required materials from the material storage warehouse. With the industrial concentration of the machine tool industry, the current machine tool production is generally large-scale production. There may be a large number of machine tool production orders of different models that need to be produced every day. Since the production materials required for machine tools of different models may be partially the same and partially different, in the face of a large number of materials, it is necessary to quickly and accurately take out the materials from the material storage warehouse and deliver them to the production line in time to improve production efficiency. The current machine tool production mainly relies on manual sorting to sort materials. Although there are some material management software and material transportation equipment to assist, it is still necessary to manually check the materials required for each machine tool order, which has low work efficiency and is prone to errors. Therefore, the machine tool manufacturing industry warehousing and sorting method provided in the embodiment of the present application determines the materials to be shipped out by analyzing the orders for machine tools to be produced, takes out the materials to be shipped out in batches and sorts them according to the orders to improve the production efficiency of machine tools.

[0041] First, obtain the order of machine tools to be produced. The number of orders for machine tools to be produced is not limited and can be one or more. The more the number of orders for machine tools to be produced, the more the production efficiency is improved by using the warehousing and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided by the embodiment of the present application. Each order in the order of machine tools to be produced corresponds to a machine tool to be produced. Each machine tool to be produced requires multiple materials required for production. The materials can be single parts or semi-finished products that have completed a certain assembly. Various materials are stored in a material storage warehouse. The order of machine tools to be produced obtained is all orders for a production cycle. A production cycle is, for example, one day, or a production cycle is a production shift, or a production cycle is a preset cycle for machine tool assembly. The determined materials to be shipped out include a collection of all materials corresponding to all orders in the obtained order of machine tools to be produced. That is, all the orders to be produced in a machine tool production cycle are obtained, and then all the materials corresponding to all the machine tools to be produced in this machine tool production cycle are determined.

[0042] In one embodiment, the process of determining the materials to be shipped out can first determine all the bills of materials of each machine tool to be produced in the order of the machine tool to be produced; then merge the same materials in the bill of materials to determine the materials to be shipped out. The order of the machine tool to be produced in a production cycle may include multiple orders of machine tools to be produced of the same model, or may include multiple orders of machine tools to be produced of different models. The same model of machine tools to be produced obviously requires the same materials, and different models of machine tools to be produced may also require the same general parts materials. Then, each material in the materials to be shipped out determined according to the order of the machine tool to be produced may be a material corresponding to one model of machine tools or a material corresponding to multiple models of machine tools. After determining the list of materials to be shipped out, the same materials in the bill of materials can be merged, that is, the same materials can be taken out together when shipping out, which can improve the efficiency of material shipping out, especially when the same materials are small materials, multiple small materials can be taken out together at one time, shortening the time required for material shipping out and improving the shipping out efficiency.

[0043] Step S120, taking out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse.

[0044] After all materials corresponding to the machine tools to be produced are determined, all materials to be shipped can be taken out from the material storage warehouse. The materials to be shipped corresponding to each order can be taken out in sequence according to the order sequence, or the materials to be shipped can be taken out in sequence according to the material storage location, from far to near or from near to far, or according to other rules.

[0045] In one embodiment, in order to further improve the production efficiency of the machine tool, the required materials can be taken out in sequence according to the order in which the machine tool produces the required materials.

[0046] In one embodiment, if a certain material among the determined materials to be shipped out includes materials corresponding to multiple machine tools to be produced, the positions of each material to be shipped out in the material list can be queried from the material storage warehouse, and then the materials to be shipped out in the material list can be taken out in batches from each material position in the material storage warehouse, that is, the same materials can be taken out together, and the materials for different machine tools can be sorted out in the sorting stage after taking out.

[0047] In one embodiment, the order of taking out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse can also be determined according to the production status of each machine tool in the order of the machine tool to be produced. First, the production status of each machine tool in the order of the machine tool to be produced is determined; then, according to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped are taken out from the material storage warehouse in sequence. The number of materials required for machine tool production is large, and taking out all materials at once is not conducive to machine tool production. Therefore, the required materials can be taken out in sequence according to the machine tool production process. For example, a total of 26 materials A-material Z are required for machine tool production, and the assembly sequence of the machine tool is also carried out in the order from material A to material Z. Therefore, materials A-material Z can be taken out in sequence, which will improve the production efficiency of the machine tool. It should be noted that taking out materials in sequence can also be taken out in batches, for example, taking out 5 materials in a batch, so that the machine tool assembly station can directly start assembly production after obtaining the materials, further improving the production efficiency of the machine tool.

[0048] The specific method of taking materials out of the material storage warehouse can adopt any outbound method in the warehousing field. The material outbound process includes two steps: material identification and material transportation. Material identification can adopt radio frequency identification (RFID), bar code recognition, image recognition and other methods, and material transportation can adopt automated guided vehicle (AGV) or other robots or automatic transportation methods.

[0049] Step S130 , sorting the materials to be shipped out into material combinations corresponding to the machine tools to be produced according to the materials required by the machine tools to be produced in the order for the machine tools to be produced, and outputting them to the material outlet in sequence.

[0050] After taking out the materials to be shipped, since the materials may include materials from multiple orders of machine tools to be produced, in order to facilitate the use of the production end, the material combination corresponding to the materials required for each machine tool to be produced can be sorted out and output to the discharge port in sequence. Then, at the discharge port, the materials corresponding to each machine tool can be distinguished so that the materials can be allocated to different machine tools to be produced. For the sorting of materials, sorting can be performed simultaneously when taking out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse, or it can be sorted after the materials are taken out. Material sorting is carried out through the material sorting table, which can include multiple discharge ports, so that materials from different machine tools can be transported to different discharge ports respectively, or when there is only one discharge port, the materials corresponding to each machine tool can be output from one discharge port in sequence.

[0051] After adopting the warehousing and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided in this embodiment, the materials to be shipped out are determined and taken out according to the orders of the machine tools to be produced, and then the materials to be shipped out are sorted according to the materials required for each machine tool to be produced and output to the discharge port in sequence, thereby realizing automatic sorting of materials for machine tool manufacturing, thereby improving the efficiency of machine tool manufacturing and avoiding errors that may be caused by manual sorting.

[0052] Figure 1 The warehousing and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided in the embodiment shown provides a solution for determining materials to be shipped out according to the orders of machine tools to be produced, and sorting materials according to each machine tool. Figure 1 On the basis of the illustrated embodiment, further, the embodiment of the present application also provides a management method for a material storage warehouse.

[0053] First, the historical outbound path of each material is determined according to the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse; then the material storage location in the material storage warehouse is adjusted according to the historical outbound path of each material to minimize the weighted sum of the outbound paths of each material.

[0054] The materials in the material storage warehouse are stored in different locations, and the distances from different locations to the material sorting place are different. If the distances from each material to be shipped to the material sorting place can be the shortest, the material retrieval time is the shortest and the material retrieval efficiency is the highest. Therefore, the material storage location in the material storage warehouse can be analyzed and optimized in real time. In the embodiment of the present application, the material storage location is optimized according to the historical material outbound records. First, the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse are obtained. The historical material outbound records can be outbound records within a period of time, or all outbound records of the material storage warehouse. According to the historical material outbound records, the historical outbound paths of each material can be determined, that is, the paths of each material from the storage location to the sorting place. Different weights can be set for the paths of each material. Since the time and energy consumption required to take out materials with larger size and heavier weight is greater, and the time and energy consumption required to take out materials with smaller size and lighter weight is less, the weight of heavy and large materials can be set higher, and the weight of light and small materials can be set lower. Then, the probability of each material's outbound delivery can be determined based on the historical material outbound delivery records of each material. Placing materials with higher outbound delivery probabilities and higher weights in storage locations closer to the sorting location can shorten the outbound delivery paths of materials with higher outbound delivery probabilities and higher weights. Correspondingly, placing materials with lower outbound delivery probabilities and lower weights in storage locations far away from the sorting location will make the outbound delivery paths of materials with lower outbound delivery probabilities and lower weights longer, but will have little effect on the overall efficiency of the outbound delivery of the entire material storage warehouse. Therefore, the material storage locations in the material storage warehouse are adjusted based on the historical outbound delivery paths of each material so that the weighted sum of the outbound delivery paths of each material is minimized, that is, the storage locations of materials with higher weights are placed closer to the sorting location. After each material outbound delivery operation is performed, the material storage location adjustment judgment of the material storage warehouse can be performed, or the material storage location adjustment of the material storage warehouse can be judged in a preset cycle. In short, adjusting the material storage location of the material storage warehouse can improve the material outbound delivery efficiency of the material storage warehouse and reduce resource consumption.

[0055] Figure 2 A schematic diagram of a storage and sorting system for a machine tool manufacturing industry provided by an embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. Figure 2 As shown, the warehousing and sorting system for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided in this embodiment includes: a warehouse management system 21 and a material sorting station 22.

[0056] The warehouse management system 21 is used to determine the materials to be shipped out according to the orders of machine tools to be produced.

[0057] The material sorting station 22 is used to take out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse; sort the shipped materials into material combinations corresponding to each machine tool to be produced according to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced in the machine tool order to be produced, and output them to the discharge port in sequence.

[0058] The warehouse management system 21 can be set in a computer or server local to the material storage warehouse, or the management system can also be set in the cloud. The material sorting station 22 can include a material transportation device and a material sorting device of the material storage warehouse, wherein the material transportation device is used to take out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse, and the material sorting device is used to sort the shipped materials into material combinations corresponding to the machine tools to be produced according to the materials required by the machine tools to be produced in the machine tool orders to be produced, and output them to the discharge port in sequence.

[0059] The storage and sorting system for the machine tool manufacturing industry provided in this embodiment is used to implement Figure 1 The implementation principle and technical effect of the warehousing and sorting method for the machine tool manufacturing industry in the illustrated embodiment are similar and will not be described in detail here.

[0060] Furthermore, the warehouse management system 21 is specifically used to determine all material lists of each machine tool to be produced in the order of machine tools to be produced; merge the same materials in the material list to determine the materials to be shipped out; the material sorting station 22 is specifically used to query the location of each material to be shipped out in the material list from the material storage warehouse; and batch-pick out the materials to be shipped out in the material list from each material location in the material storage warehouse.

[0061] Furthermore, the warehouse management system 21 is also used to determine the historical outbound path of each material based on the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse; and adjust the material storage location in the material storage warehouse based on the historical outbound path of each material so that the weighted sum of the outbound paths of each material is minimized.

[0062] Furthermore, the material sorting station 22 is specifically used to determine the production status of each machine tool in the order of machine tools to be produced; according to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped out are taken out from the material storage warehouse in sequence.

[0063] Optionally, the machine tool manufacturing industry storage and sorting system provided in the embodiment of the present application may also include a human-computer interaction interface 23, which is used to display the working status of the warehouse management system 21 and the material sorting station 22 to the user. In order to enable the user to grasp the status of the material storage warehouse in a timely manner, the working status of the warehouse management system 21 and the material sorting station 22 of the machine tool manufacturing industry storage and sorting system can be displayed in real time on the human-computer interaction interface 23, so that the user can perform more refined management of the material storage warehouse. The human-computer interaction interface 23 can not only display the working status of the warehouse management system 21 and the material sorting station 22 to the user, but can also be further controlled by the user, for example, it can control the number of simultaneous processing of the warehouse management system 21 to be produced machine tool orders, control the material identification, transportation, and sorting methods of the material sorting station 22, and control the storage position adjustment method of the materials stored in the material storage warehouse.

[0064] It should be understood that the various forms of processes shown above can be used to reorder, add or delete steps. For example, the steps described in the present invention can be executed in parallel, sequentially or in different orders, as long as the desired results of the technical solution of the present invention can be achieved, and this document does not limit this.

[0065] The above specific implementations do not constitute a limitation on the protection scope of the present invention. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications, combinations, sub-combinations and substitutions can be made according to design requirements and other factors. Any modification, equivalent substitution and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A storage and sorting method for machine tool manufacturing industry, characterized in that: include: Determine the materials to be shipped out based on the machine tool orders to be produced; Taking out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse; According to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced in the order for the machine tools to be produced, the materials shipped out of the warehouse are sorted into material combinations corresponding to each machine tool to be produced and output to the discharge port in sequence.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that Determining the materials to be shipped out according to the machine tool orders to be produced includes: Determine all bills of materials for each machine tool to be produced in the order for the machine tools to be produced; Merge the same materials in the bill of materials to determine the materials to be shipped out.

3. The method according to claim 2, characterized in that The taking out the to-be-out material from the material storage warehouse comprises: Querying the location of each material to be shipped out in the material list from the material storage warehouse; The materials to be shipped out in the material list are taken out in batches from each material location in the material storage warehouse.

4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: The method further comprises: Determine the historical outbound path of each material according to the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse; The material storage locations in the material storage warehouse are adjusted according to the historical outbound paths of the materials so that the weighted sum of the outbound paths of the materials is minimized.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that: The taking out the to-be-out material from the material storage warehouse comprises: Determine the production status of each machine tool in the order of machine tools to be produced; According to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped out are taken out from the material storage warehouse in sequence.

6. A storage and sorting system for machine tool manufacturing industry, characterized in that: include: Warehouse management system, used to determine the materials to be shipped out according to the machine tool orders to be produced; The material sorting station is used to take out the materials to be shipped from the material storage warehouse; sort the shipped materials into material combinations corresponding to each machine tool to be produced according to the materials required by each machine tool to be produced in the order for the machine tools to be produced, and output them to the discharge port in sequence.

7. The system according to claim 6, characterized in that The warehouse management system is specifically used to determine all the material lists of each machine tool to be produced in the order of the machine tools to be produced; merge the same materials in the material lists to determine the materials to be shipped out; The material sorting station is specifically used to query the location of each material to be shipped out in the material list from the material storage warehouse; and batch-pick out the materials to be shipped out in the material list from each material location in the material storage warehouse.

8. The system according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that: The warehouse management system is also used to determine the historical outbound path of each material based on the historical material outbound records in the material storage warehouse; and adjust the material storage position in the material storage warehouse based on the historical outbound path of each material so that the weighted sum of the outbound paths of each material is minimized.

9. The system according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that: The material sorting station is specifically used to determine the production status of each machine tool in the order of machine tools to be produced; according to the production status of each machine tool, the materials to be shipped out are taken out from the material storage warehouse in sequence.

10. The system according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that: The system further comprises: The human-computer interaction interface is used to display the working status of the warehouse management system and the material sorting station to the user.

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