TALOS Automatic Packing System

6. The common practice that
at night every compartment
represents one customer but
during the day one title shows
just how ridiculous this antiquated
technology is as magazines also
arrive late nowadays.
7. Each of the many thousand
displays also lights up when
there is no picker in front of it and
transforms the expensive electricity
into expensive heat.
8. The picker must carry or push
the heavy goods to an unknown
destination and count them there.
9. Half of the pickers have
problems if information is only
presented visually. The picking
productivity drops and the number
of errors increase.
10. The advance preparation necessary
for inflexible systems is very
time consuming and reduces the
department’s productivity to values
under 1000 copies per man hour.
11. Unless reusable containers
are used for delivery the slippery
piles from the shelf compartments
must be manually carried to the
stationary strapping machine. After
being strapped each parcel is
moved another three times before
reaching the delivery vehicle.
12. With the low productivity and
the high error rate, the high costs of
stationary single-place picking for
investment, installation, operation
and maintenance are not worthwhile
even when they are written off over
longer periods.
> TALOS in contrast always
moves day and night with the
optimal operating mode “compartment
= individual customer
package” and is therefore totally
independent.
> TALOS needs only a power
charge of 0.2 kWh daily for its
eleven displays and motor.
> TALOS drives automatically
to the correct package and stops
precisely there. The picker always
counts while on the move.
> When eyes and ears are addressed
simultaneously the response
time is cut in half and the
error level is greatly reduced.
> TALOS drives into the incoming
goods department and
collects the goods directly from
the pallet.
> With HIT trolley and TALOS
picking already takes place in
reusable containers which are
ideally suited for transportation
to the retailer and back. Even
turning back to the traditional
strapped packages saves enough
time.
> TALOS costs a great deal
less and has 30% to 100% higher
productivity, reduces the complaints
42-fold and therefore pays
for itself in less than two years.
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