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The problem that comes into my mind is that dispensers are tech, while bins are literally a bunch of plastic/cardboard/metal. But on the pros, your system is a

The problem that comes into my mind is that dispensers are tech, while bins are literally a bunch of plastic/cardboard/metal. But on the pros, your system is a FIFO queue, while the system in the video is LIFO, the latter is not good for goods with an expiry date. I am currently working in a warehouse with 80k unique items, i am planning to automate the system (because currently it's using little to none automation, mainly because there is a conflict of interest) and a system of bins with the pickers/refilles zooming on the top is the best solution I've found so far. I think that i will make the project open hardware/software.

kortex 5y ago
Food factories are FIFO, and you want FIFO dispensing, so I can only imagine the optimal solution is FIFO transport. I could readily imagine "magazines" for anything coming in cardboard boxes - spring or gravity fed, high-aspect ratio stacks in some kind of frame. Specially built container trucks which are easy to load with these "food mags". 6Axis robots to load them into the factory. Spent mags get put into an empty trailer and sent back to the factory. Loose bag items are trickier, but if you put those in reusable plastic totes, and put those in the mags, and automatically eject them into another mag, I think it would work well with the existing suction arm ones.
- jpindar 5y ago
  Are you picturing something like a firearm magazine? Because those are LIFO.
  - kortex 5y ago
    No, a queue, like a clip (actual clip not a small-arms magazine, which as you mention are push-down LIFO).