SORTING FACILITY READING DEVICE AT THE SORTING FACILITY AND SORTING METHOD OF GOODS AT THE SORTING FACILITY

摘要

[PROBLEMS] To provide a sorting facility, a reading means, and a method of sorting an article, which can perform a highly reliable sorting operation and enable an operator to reliably sort an order item by the user. A picking facility (1) for sorting articles (2) according to an order from a user is provided with a cell indicator (19) for displaying information on the sorting operation of the article (2) A zone controller 55 for controlling the cell display 19 according to an instruction from the general controller 51 and the general controller 51 and a shelf side tag 65 for storing information on the sorting operation of the article 2 And a tag reader 60 for reading the information stored in the shelf side tag 65 in a noncontact manner. The tag reader 60 has an information reading function for reading information from the shelf side tag 65, The zone controller 55 has an information transmission function for wirelessly transmitting information read from the tag 65 to the zone controller 55. The zone controller 55 controls the cell display 19 by information transmitted from the tag reader 60 .