Lightning Pick and the Role of Pick-to-Light

July 9, 2010 - PRLog -- For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.
Although it has been around for more than twenty years, the benefits of Pick-to-Light solutions cannot be overlooked. Manufacturing Journalist, Thomas R. Cutler interview Pick-to-Light leader Lightning Pick for the current issue of Automation.com.  
What is Pick-to-Light?
There are extensive benefits of Light-Directed Order Picking. According to Bernie McCabe, Manager of Lightning Pick Technologies, “Pick-to-Light is a light directed order fulfillment system.” McCabe’s firm led the cable-free light module revolution and the innovative engineering of hardware technology continues to provide extreme operational advantages. All Pick-to-Light solutions do not possess the same robust software that drives powerful and flexible order fulfillment systems.

Media
The flexibility of best of breed Pick-to-Light technology solutions offer cable-free light module hardware; this flexibility enables the productivity of light-directed order fulfillment to virtually all popular material storage and handling media found in distribution centers and manufacturing plants. This includes static shelving, carton flow rack, batch picking carts, pallet rack, horizontal and vertical carousels, and others.

Hardware
McCabe shared the importance of cable-free light module revolution with the firm’s exclusive Twin-Wire design: “The innovative engineering of our hardware technology provides unprecedented flexibility for a variety of Light-directed order fulfillment solutions. The Twin Wire design allows modules to operate independently, without interconnected cabling, for fast and easy installations and system maintenance. Convenient surface mounting onto existing rack or shelving systems reduces installation time and costs. Product additions, re-slotting and maintenance are simply executed with a track lighting style configuration.”

Lightning Pick Technologies, providers of paperless picking systems including the number one selling Pick to Light solution in North America recently released Lightning Pick NW Series Wireless Pick to Light System. The NW Series is the first completely mobile Pick to Light technology in the market, introducing an expanded range of applications that can benefit from light-directed order picking.
In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced duct-based Pick to Light technology to the United States. These cable-free light modules retrofit to a rack, shelf, cart or other material handling storage media. The new track-lighting style hardware lowered installation costs and is more flexible for system reconfiguration, maintenance, and expansion. Cable-free displays are the industry standard, but distributors still sought after a means of applying Pick to Light speed and accuracy to operations that did not have the infrastructure for mounted lights.

The LP Wireless Pick to Light System is ideal for any temporary or mobile product locations such as totes, bins, shipping containers, pallets on open floors and others. By placing the portable light module on or near the required product location it is immediately part of the Pick to Light operation. Bays and zones can leverage a combination of classic Lightning Pick track-mounted and wireless lights, all of which are easily configured within Lightning Pick software.

Lightning Pick Technologies
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Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143