Simplified Slot Occupied Grid

Casual and new users find the tote position pictograms confusing, as they show slots with no cartons. They look at the bot and it has many unused slots still showing on the display.

Having completed induction, the user selects “Done”. Then, the design of the tote position “checkerboard” should remove all the unloaded slots from the level pictogram.

For example, the bot has 8 potential slots but the site rarely needs to use all the slots on each level. If they load 2 on the top and one on the lower tier, the grid shows all 8 slots even though they loaded only 3 cartons then pressed done.

Associates find the inclusion of the unoccupied segments confusing. They see four boxes on 3 rows even though we only inducted into slot 1 and 4 on level 1, 1 big box level 2 and nothing on level 3. Yet we still show levels/positions that don’t exist.

The confusion is shared by the pickers, the pack task associates and anyone casually looking at the bots.

When they place oversize cartons on A and D and a very large carton on the lower shelf in position E the guide to the user would look like this (image 4):

If the position on the level doesn’t have an order assigned, the presentation of slots and levels not being used confuses them. The new users look at the diagram and get confused by the image not representing reality. “I have two on top and one down the bottom, yet there are four shown even though we didn’t induct 4 positions”

The inducting user should see a modified diagram as soon as Done is pressed. This screen should also have the “Go” function on this screen.