Knapp develops pick by vision system
October 28th 2009 Automation specialist, Knapp, is set to launch a new type of picking system using 'augmented reality' to guide the picker via a set of goggles and a camera system.
The system works in much the same way as a 'heads-up' display on the windscreen of top-end modern cars – the user's goggles are essentially glasses, allowing them to see as normal, with a head-mounted camera. The camera records what the picker sees, and via a WMS, uses the camera's information to display picking directions upon the user's glasses. So a red arrow, for example, would flash up, pointing to a pick location, and then a blue arrow would flash up pointing to the put location.
The firm showed a prototype to journalists in Graz, Austria, earlier this month. A commercial version will launch by June, and Knapp says costs will be roughly equal to voice picking systems.
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