EP3728089A1 - Materialbereitstellungssystem für eine fertigungsanlage - Google Patents

Materialbereitstellungssystem für eine fertigungsanlage

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EP3728089A1
EP3728089A1 EP18826062.4A EP18826062A EP3728089A1 EP 3728089 A1 EP3728089 A1 EP 3728089A1 EP 18826062 A EP18826062 A EP 18826062A EP 3728089 A1 EP3728089 A1 EP 3728089A1
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Prior art keywords
transfer
magazine
material supply
receiving
supply system
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English (en)
French (fr)
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Stefan WOLDRICH
Florian Walter
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Brose Fahrzeugteile SE and Co KG
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Brose Fahrzeugteile SE and Co KG
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65GTRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G1/00Storing articles, individually or in orderly arrangement, in warehouses or magazines
    • B65G1/02Storage devices
    • B65G1/04Storage devices mechanical
    • B65G1/06Storage devices mechanical with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level
    • B65G1/08Storage devices mechanical with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level the articles being fed by gravity
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65GTRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G65/00Loading or unloading

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  • the invention relates to a material supply system for a production plant for providing in particular box-shaped load carriers according to the preamble of claim 1, a production plant with such a material supply system according to claim 11 and a use of such a material supply system according to claim 14.
  • the known material supply system (DE 20 2011 003 546 U1), from which the invention proceeds, can be transported as such by means of a motor transport system.
  • the material delivery system that can be transported in this way comprises a shelving system with magazine shafts for the storage of box-shaped charge carriers.
  • the transport system is additionally associated with a handling unit, with the charge carriers stored in the rack system, for example, to a production cell or the like. let pass.
  • the known material supply system brings about an increase in the flexibility with regard to the material flow in a production plant, this advantage is paid for by a complex, integrated transport and handling system.
  • the invention is based on the problem of designing and developing the known material supply system such that the structural design of the components involved in the provision of material is simplified. The above problem is solved in a material providing system according to the preamble of claim 1 by the features of the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the fundamental consideration is to assign to the shelving system of the material preparation system itself a motor transfer system which transfers the charge carriers from the shelving system to a production cell or the like. serves. This results in the possibility of using cost-effective, driverless transport systems available throughout a production for transporting the material supply system, so that in principle a fully automated material flow can be realized. Ultimately, care must be taken to ensure that the mechanical interfaces between the transport system and the material supply system are compatible with each other. In the simplest case, it is even conceivable that the proposed material preparation system is transported half automatically or completely manually, for example by means of a simple lift truck, while the transfer of the charge carriers is automated.
  • the material supply system at the front of the racking system has a mechanically connected to the shelving system, motor transfer system for transferring the charge carriers to the manufacturing plant.
  • the transfer system With the transfer system, the load carriers can be removed automatically from the at least one magazine shaft and automatically positioned in transfer positions along the front of the rack system.
  • a proposed transfer system can be extremely simple. With regard to the shelf system of the material supply system, the reason for this is that the entire transfer can be accomplished with linear handling movements. With this realization, it is also appropriate to always assign to a proposed shelving system a separate transfer system by the motor Transfer system is mechanically connected to the shelving system.
  • the term "mechanically connected” is to be understood widely in the present case and comprises, on the one hand, the connection of two separate components in the classical sense by means of a connection technique, on the other hand, this also includes the design of a part of the transfer system integrated in the shelf system.
  • the proposed solution allows a flexible design of the shelving system with magazine shafts, which can be arranged one above the other and / or next to each other, in particular in magazine rows or magazine columns.
  • the arrangement in magazine rows and Magazinspatten allows a very simple mechanical structure of the transfer system, as has been explained above.
  • the further preferred embodiments according to claims 3 to 6 relate to such a mechanically simple construction of the transfer system.
  • the transfer system is here equipped with a transfer slide, which is positioned to remove a load carrier from a magazine shaft, if necessary, before the respective magazine shaft (claim 3).
  • the term "slide” is generally understood to mean that the movement of the carriage is due to shifting in one plane, which in turn is structurally easily implementable.This plane is referred to as the "travel plane” in which the transfer carriage is can be moved by means of a position ier drive system.
  • the traverse plane is aligned parallel to the designed as a flat side front of the shelving system, so that the transfer of the charge carrier from the shelving system can be implemented with a few degrees of freedom of movement.
  • the positioning-drive system for the method of transfer carriage comes with only two linear units, which are arranged in a preferred embodiment in a particularly compact design in the manner of a cross table, ie mechanically to each other.
  • the advancement of the charge carrier to the front of the rack system out within the at least one magazine shaft Is provided gravitationally driven and thus cost-effective, the shaft bottom of the at least one magazine shaft then more preferably as a roller conveyor or the like. is trained.
  • a corresponding drive system is also provided for this feeding.
  • the transfer system has a removal system for removing the charge carriers from the at least one magazine shaft and for transferring the charge carriers to the transfer slide.
  • the function of the sampling system is simply based on a controlled activation or deactivation of a movement limiter for the charge carriers, for example in the manner of a controllable end stop. This is advantageously applicable in particular in connection with the above-mentioned, gravitationally driven advancing of the charge carriers in the at least one magazine shaft.
  • a removal drive system can be provided according to a second alternative of claim 9, which ensures a particularly reproducible transfer of the charge carriers.
  • the transfer carriage in a, preferably space-saving, transport state can be brought.
  • a section of the transfer carriage for taking the transport state can swing.
  • a production plant is claimed as such, which is equipped with at least one proposed material supply system.
  • a production facility in which the proposed material supply system automatically carries out a transfer of charge carriers to production cells of the production facility. Please refer to all versions of the proposed material supply system.
  • a preferred arrangement within the scope of the proposed production plant Is the subject of claim 12, according to which the manufacturing plant has at least one material receiving system.
  • a material-receiving system is advantageously part of a production cell, which is to be supplied with material for the production.
  • the material receiving system has a receiving unit or a plurality of receiving units for charge carriers.
  • the proposed material supply system is used for the automated transfer of load carriers to the material intake system.
  • the material supply system here and preferably by means of a driverless transport system, is transported in front of the material receiving system, wherein the charge carriers stored in the at least one magazine shaft of the material supply system can be transferred by means of the transfer system to the at least one receiving unit of the material receiving system.
  • the fact that the respectively removed charge carrier can be flexibly positioned in the respectively desired receiving position by means of the transfer carriage is particularly advantageous. This makes it possible to transfer the relevant load carrier to an optimum pick-up position such that manual handling is no longer necessary for the provision of the load carriers.
  • FIG. 2 shows the material supply system according to FIG. 1 in a perspective view
  • FIG. 3 the material supply system and the material receiving system of FIG. 1 in area III in a fanned-out view and
  • Embodiment in a perspective view and in three detail views A, B, C, which represent in their sequence the transfer of a charge carrier.
  • the material supply system 1 shown in the drawing is preferably used in a, in particular, linked, production plant 2 and serves there for the provision of here and preferably box-shaped charge carriers 3, in particular the transfer of these charge carriers 3 to manufacturing cells 4, 5 of the manufacturing plant 2.
  • the charge carriers 3 contain Material to be supplied to the manufacturing cells 4, 5 within the material flow.
  • FIG. 2 shows that the material supply system 1 as such can be transported by means of a driverless transport system 6.
  • the transport system 6 can thus be coupled with the material condition setting system 1 only for transport and is not an integral part of the material supply system 1, which results in a cost-effective realizability of the material supply system 1.
  • the transport system 6 can also be an integral part of the material supply system 1.
  • the production plant 2 is associated with an indicated in Fig. 1 control system 7, the corresponding commands to the components of the manufacturing plant. 2 outputs.
  • a radio-based communication with the control system 7 is indicated in FIG.
  • FIG. 2 shows that the material conversion system 1 has a shelving system 8 with a front side 8a and a rear side 8b, which forms at least one magazine shaft 9, preferably at least two magazine shafts 9, for the storage of charge carriers 3.
  • more than two magazine slots 9, namely a total of eight magazine slots 9, are provided.
  • the number of magazine slots 9 can be selected depending on the material flow conditions. If in the present case of several magazine shafts 9 is mentioned, these statements apply to a design with only a single magazine shaft 9 accordingly.
  • the magazine shafts 9 extend to the front side 8a of the shelving system 8, so that a removal of the charge carriers 3 from the front side 8a is possible.
  • the magazine shafts 9 preferably extend from the rear side 8b of the shelving system 8 to the front side 8a of the shelving system 8. This makes it possible to fill the magazine shafts 9 with charge carriers 3 from the rear side 8b of the shelving system 8.
  • the filling of the material supply system 1 takes place here and preferably via a central warehouse 11, which is also constructed like a shelf.
  • the filling of the material supply system 1 can be automated or, as indicated in Fig. 1, manually via an operator B, be provided.
  • the central warehouse 1 1 in the illustrated embodiment also serves for the return in the context of the production emptied charge carriers 3, which in the present case under the term .Leergut "are summarized.
  • the material supply system 1 on the front side 8a of the shelving system 8 has a motor transfer system 10 mechanically connected to the shelving system 8 for transferring the charge carriers 3 to the production plant 2.
  • the transfer system 10 is assigned two functions. The first function of the transfer system 10 is that with the transfer system 10, the carrier 3 can be removed automatically from the magazine shafts 9. The second function of the transfer system 10 is that with the transfer system 10, the removed charge carriers 3 along the front side 8a of the rack system 8 are automatically positioned. In this way, the respectively removed charge carrier 3 can be positioned by means of the transfer system 10 at a position of the production cell 4, 5 intended for the transfer, so that manual handling can be completely dispensed with.
  • FIG. 2 further shows that the magazine shafts 9 are arranged one above the other and next to one another as viewed from the front side 8a of the shelving system 8, so that the magazine shafts 9 form magazine rows 12 and magazine columns 13 as viewed from the front side 8a of the shelving system 8.
  • the magazine shafts 9 are arranged exclusively one above the other or exclusively next to one another. In all these cases, it is preferably such that the shelf system 8 forms the shape of a cuboid.
  • the transfer carriage 10 has a transfer carriage 14 for removing a load carrier 3 from a magazine shaft 9 in front of the respective magazine shaft 9 at a position assigned to the magazine shaft 9 ,
  • a first position of the transfer carriage 14 is shown in Fig. 2 in a solid line, while a second position of the transfer carriage 14 in Fig. 2 is shown in dashed line.
  • the transfer carriage 14 is preferably assigned a positioning drive system 15 (not shown in FIG. 3) for the positioning of the transfer carriage 14 receiving the respective load carrier 3 in a travel plane 16, here and preferably vertically aligned. Further preferably, the transfer carriage 14 by means of the positioning drive system 15 in two movement degrees of freedom to be explained in the traverse plane 16 can be moved.
  • at the positioning drive system 15 is preferably an electric drive system.
  • the movability of the transfer carriage 14 is particularly well adapted to the geometry of the shelving system 8.
  • the racking system 8 has a frame 17, which forms the front side 8a of the rack system 8 as a flat side and that the traversing plane 16 is aligned parallel to the designed as a flat side front side 8a of the shelving system 8.
  • the transfer system 10 is arranged on the frame 17 of the shelving system 8.
  • the transfer system 10 forms at least part of the frame 17 of the shelving system 8.
  • the positioning drive system 15 is particularly simple in the illustrated and so far preferred embodiment.
  • the positioning drive system 15 has only one X-linear unit 18 and one Y-linear unit 19, by means of which the transfer carriage 14 can be moved in the traverse plane 16 in an X-direction 20 and perpendicular thereto in a Y-direction 21 ,
  • the X-direction 20 corresponds to a horizontal direction
  • the Y-direction 21 corresponds to a vertical direction.
  • the X-linear unit 18 is immovable relative to the shelving system 8, while the Y-linear unit 19 as such is displaceable relative to the shelving system 8 via the X-linear unit 18.
  • the advance of the charge carriers 3 towards the front is achieved in a particularly simple constructional manner in the exemplary embodiment shown and thus far preferred.
  • the longitudinal axes 9a of the magazine shafts ⁇ are aligned inclined relative to the horizontal 22, so that the load carriers 3 in the magazine shafts 9 advance gravitationally.
  • the charge carriers 3, as shown in Fig. 2, one behind the other shock-in shock in the magazine slots 9 can be stored.
  • the shaft bottoms 28 of the magazine shafts 9 are formed by transport paths, in particular by roller conveyors or the like. In principle, it can also be provided that the magazine shafts 9 associated transport paths are driven to make the advancement of the carrier 3 as possible reproducible.
  • the transfer system 10 For the removal of the load carrier 3 from the magazine shafts 9 and for transferring the load carrier 3 on the transfer slide 14, the transfer system 10 to the at least one magazine shaft 9 and / or on the transfer slide 14 with a motor removal system 23 (not shown in Fig. 3) fitted.
  • a motor removal system 23 (not shown in Fig. 3) fitted.
  • the magazine shafts 9 are each assigned a movement limiter 24 for the load carriers 3, which limits the advance of at least the foremost load carrier 3 in the magazine shafts 9, the movement limiter 24 being deactivatable by means of the removal system 23 for the removal of the load carriers 3.
  • the movement limiter 24 may be an end stop, which prevents an excessive advancement of the charge carriers 3 towards the front side 8a of the rack system 8, which, however, can be deactivated by means of the removal system 23 for the removal of the charge carriers 3 by moving it out of the motor Movement range of the charge carrier 3 is adjusted.
  • the removal system 23 has a particular electrical removal drive system 25 with which the respective foremost charge carrier 3 in the magazine slots 9 on the transfer carriage 14 can be transferred.
  • the transfer carriage 14 has a transport path 26 driven by the removal drive system 25, in particular a roller conveyor, for the charge carriers 3.
  • the respective removed charge carrier 3 motor in the direction of Production cell 4, 5 is advanced, which increases the reproducibility in the transfer of the respective charge carrier 3.
  • each magazine shaft 9 it is additionally necessary for each magazine shaft 9 to have a singulation system, not shown, which, upon removal of the foremost charge carrier 3, the subsequent charge carriers 3 holds back.
  • This can be realized, for example, by providing an additional movement limiter, which prevents the charge carrier 3, which follows the foremost charge carrier 3, from advancing until the foremost charge carrier 3 has been completely received by the transfer sled 14.
  • the two detailed views according to FIG. 2 show that the transfer carriage 14 can be brought into a transfer state (left detail view) and into a transport state (right detail view). It is provided in detail that the transfer carriage 14 has a receiving portion 27 for each removed charge carrier 3, which provides the above-mentioned, provided in the preferred embodiment transport path 26. Incidentally, the receiving section 27 can be pivoted relative to the transfer carriage 14 into a transfer position (left detail view) and into a transport position (right-hand detail view). In the transfer state, the receiving section 27 connects to the shaft bottom 26 of the respective magazine shaft 9.
  • the receiving section 27 provides a continuation of the shaft bottom 28 in the direction of the manufacturing cells 4, 5, whereby a gap may remain between the shaft bottom 28 and the receiving section 27, as far as this is substantially smaller than the extent of the charge carriers 3 in the feed direction .
  • the right detail view according to FIG. 2 shows that the receiving section 27 is pivoted in the transport state and thus assumes a substantially vertical orientation. This is a particularly space-saving accommodation of the receiving portion 27 during transport of the proposed material supply system. 1
  • the transportability of the proposed material supply system 1 can be provided in different ways.
  • the material supply system 1 is accessible by an operatorless transport system 6 and at least slightly liftable for transport. This can be seen from the illustration according to FIG. 2.
  • the material supply system 1 has a number of feet 29, so that the material supply system 1, if necessary, in particular for the transfer of carriers 3, deposited and the driverless transport system 6 can be used elsewhere.
  • the material supply system 1 is assigned its own controller 30, which has at least one driver stage for the electrical drive components of the material supply system 1.
  • the controller 30 can also provide a flow control for the material supply system 1.
  • a controller of the driverless transport system 6 assumes control tasks for the material supply system 1.
  • the power supply of the electric drive components of the material supply system 1 may be due to the fact that the material supply system 1 has an energy storage, not shown, for storing electrical energy, such as an electric battery.
  • the energy required in particular for the drive components can be provided via an electrical interface from the driverless transport system 6 or from the production lines 4, 5.
  • the material supply system 1 generally has an electrical interface for the transmission of electrical energy and / or data transmission, which can be brought into electrical engagement with a mating interface on the driverless transport system 6 and / or on the manufacturing cells 4, 5.
  • the manufacturing plant 2, which is the subject of a separate teaching, as such is further illuminated. In this case, it is initially assumed that, in addition to the illustrated material supply system 1, at least one further material supply system 1 can or may be provided.
  • the existence of at least one material receiving system 31, 32, which interacts with the material supply system 1, plays an important role.
  • the illustrated manufacturing plant 2 has two manufacturing cells 4, 5, which are each equipped with a material receiving system 31, 32.
  • the material receiving system 31, 32 serves to receive the charge carriers 3 from the material supply system 1, so that the respective production cell 4, 5 is supplied with the material for production provided in the charge carriers 3.
  • the material receiving system 31, 32 has at least one receiving unit 33, preferably at least two receiving units 33 and in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3 a total of eight receiving units 33.
  • the receiving units 33 can be realized in different ways. In the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the receiving units 33 are designed as magazine shafts, as provided in the proposed material supply system 1.
  • the material supply system 1 can be transported here by means of the driverless transport system 6 in front of the material receiving system 32, the charge carriers 3 stored in the magazine shafts 9 of the material supply system 1 being transferable by means of the transfer system 10 to the at least one receiving unit 33, here to the receiving units 33.
  • the receiving units 33 which are designed here and preferably as magazine slots, are provided by a Seen front side 34 of the material receiving system 32 from one another and are arranged side by side, so that the receiving units 33 as described above in connection with the material supply system 1, magazine rows 35 and magazine columns 36 form.
  • the basic structure of the material-receiving system 32 corresponds to the basic structure of the material supply system 1.
  • FIG. 3 shows the material supply system 1 located in front of the material receiving system 32, wherein the illustration according to FIG. 3 is a fan-out view. This is indicated in Fig. 3 by the arrow 37.
  • the transfer carriage 14 for transferring the charge carrier 3 removed from a magazine shaft 9 to a receiving unit 33 of the material receiving system 32 can be positioned by means of the positioning drive system 15 in a receiving position assigned to the receiving unit 33.
  • the receiving positions are here and preferably in a receiving plane 38 assigned to the material receiving system 32, which is located parallel to the above-mentioned traverse plane 16 of the material supply system 1. This presupposes that a corresponding alignment of the material supply system 1 with respect to the material receiving system 32 has taken place.
  • This orientation can be sensor-based, for example, by the driverless transport system 6 having a sensor-based alignment control, which makes an alignment of the driverless transport system 6 to not shown alignment marks of the manufacturing cells 4, 5. It is also conceivable, however, that recourse is made to alignment with navigation data, in particular GPS navigation data, of the driverless transport system 6, which are calibrated with the CAD data of the production plant 2 stored in the guidance system 7.
  • the illustration according to FIG. 4 shows a proposed material supply system 1 in a further preferred embodiment.
  • the three detailed views A, B, C represent in their sequence the transfer of a load carrier 3 via the transfer carriage 14. From the basic structure and from the basic mode of operation, the material supply system 1 shown in FIG As far as may be made to all embodiments of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 2, 3.
  • the movement limiter 24 itself is designed as a separation system mentioned above. This means that by a corresponding activation of the movement limiter 24, the charge carriers 3 arranged one behind the other in the magazine shaft 9 are correspondingly output to the transfer carriage 14 in a separated manner.
  • the movement limiter 24 has a preferably fork-shaped separator 39.
  • the separator 39 has a first separating limb 40 and a second separating limb 41, each of which is equipped with an associated limiter element 40a, 41a for limiting the advancement of the charge carriers 3.
  • the limiter elements 40a, 41a are here and preferably equipped with rollers over which the charge carriers 3 can roll.
  • the separator 39 can be pivoted at least with the first separating leg 40 about the pivot axis 39a between a blocking position (view A in FIG. 4) and a release position (view B in FIG. 4).
  • the verzier 39 is associated with a non-illustrated, preferably electric drive system.
  • the second separating leg 41 is pivotably connected via the pivot axis 42 to the first separating leg 40.
  • the two separating legs 40, 41 are spring-biased against each other.
  • a spring arrangement 43 is provided.
  • the release of the foremost charge carrier 3 in the direction of the transfer carriage 14 is triggered by the fact that the first singling limb 40 is adjusted by motor to the release position. This is accompanied by a pivoting out of the limiter element 40a of the first separating limb 40 out of the magazine shaft 9, that is, out of the path of movement of the foremost charge carrier 3.
  • the second separation limb 41 initially follows the adjustment of the first separation limb 40, which, if the foremost charge carrier 3 were missing, would cause the second singulation limb 41 to pivot into the movement path of the charge carriers 3.
  • the following charge carrier 3 can be advanced to the first separating leg 40 and blocked there by the limiter element 40a.
  • a prerequisite for the function of the above-mentioned separation system is that two successive charge carriers 3 at the contact point on the underside form a free area 44, in which the second separating leg 41 during the advancement of the charge carriers 3 according to view C in Fig. 4 swing, in particular as above addressed spring-driven can snap.
  • the proposed separation system allows a robust separation of the charge carriers 3 with a simple structural design. Furthermore, the activation of the drive system assigned to the separating system is connected, in particular, by the above-mentioned, automatic snapping in of the second separating leg 41 with little effort.
  • a second advantageous aspect of the embodiment shown in FIG. 4 consists in the motorized pivotability of the receiving portion 27 of the receiving carriage 14 about the pivot axis 14a in the transfer position and in the transport position.
  • In the motorized transport position of the receiving portion 27 assumes a substantially vertical orientation. This is a particularly space-saving accommodation of the receiving portion 27 during transport of the proposed material supply system 1 as mentioned above.
  • the drive system 45 has two linear drives 46, 47, which in particular on opposite sides of the receiving portion 27th attack. In principle, only one linear drive 46, 47 can be provided here.
  • the respective linear drive 46, 47 is supported on an abutment 46a, 47a, which engages here and preferably on the part of the transfer carriage 14, on which the receiving portion 27 is articulated.
  • the respective linear drive 46, 47 may be configured, for example, as a spindle drive, as a pneumatic piston-cylinder drive or the like.
  • the material preparation system 1 shown in FIG. 4 is also distinguished by the fact that the transfer carriage 14 has a transport path 26, driven by the removal drive system 25, for the charge carriers 3, which here and preferably forms a treadmill arrangement 48. This results in a particularly slip-free advancement of the charge carrier 3 via the transfer carriage 14th
  • this is first transported in front of the material receiving system 32. This may include alignment in the above sense.
  • the guidance system 7 specifies, for example, that the foremost charge carrier 3 in the magazine shaft 9 designated by the reference symbol A should be transferred to the receiving unit 33 designated by the reference symbol B.
  • the relevant charge carrier 3 is moved to the magazine shaft by means of the removal system 23 9, whereby the charge carrier 3 reaches the receiving portion 27 of the transfer carriage 14.
  • the transfer-pouring 14 is moved by means of the positioning drive system 15 to three magazine shafts 9 down and around a magazine shaft 9 to the side.
  • the proposed material supply system 1, the proposed production plant 2 and the proposed use can be modified and extended in many areas.
  • the material supply system 1 can be manually or automatically filled with empties in the above sense and this empties are delivered to the central warehouse 11 or to a specially designated empties warehouse.
  • the material supply system 1 additionally has a motor transfer system as explained above on the rear side 8b of the rack system 8, with which the material supply system 1 can be automatically filled with charge carriers 3. This is a preferred variant which enables a fully automated material flow in a particularly simple manner.
  • an automated filling of the material supply system 1 is possible.
  • an output bearing in particular the central warehouse 11, has magazine shafts that are arranged identically relative to the magazine shafts 9 of the material supply system 1.
  • the filling of the material supply system 1 on it is limited to the material supply system 1 in front of the output storage , in particular the central warehouse 11, to transport and release the charge carriers 3 located in the magazine shafts of the delivery store.
  • the subsequent transfer of the charge carriers 3 preferably takes place automatically, in particular gravitationally based.
  • Another variant for an automated filling of the material supply system 1 is that between the output bearing, in particular the central warehouse 11, and the material delivery system 1 transported in front of the delivery warehouse is arranged a separate handling device from the material supply system 1.
  • This handling device can be a robot, in particular a gantry robot, an articulated robot or the like.
  • Other variants for the automated filling of the material supply system 1 with charge carriers 3 are conceivable.

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