摘要:
The invention relates to a mail sorting machine comprising a sorting conveyor (2) having sorting outlets (3), a first feeding limb (6) suitable for automatically injecting heterogeneous mail items such as small packages or parcels into the sorting conveyor, and a second feeding limb (4, 5) suitable for injecting homogeneous flat mail items such as letters, magazines or the like into the sorting conveyor. The first feeding limb (6) has an inlet suitable for receiving heterogeneous bulk mail items and comprises at least one robotised "pick and place"-type handling arm.
摘要:
A method for sorting mail items (6) using a dynamic resource allocation process and an overbooking mechanism whereby an overbooked sorting destination (D) is substituted for another sorting destination already assigned to a certain sorting output (S), comprises the steps: a) of identifying (27) from among said sorting outputs (S) a sorting output that has a fill level (N) above a first threshold (s1) and the oldest storage activity and of assigning (29) this sorting output to the overbooked sorting destination; b) if all the sorting outputs (S) have a fill level (N) below said first threshold (s1), of identifying (32), from among the sorting outputs, the one that has the oldest storage activity and of assigning (34, 37) this sorting output to said overbooked sorting destination and of indicating (36, 39) that said other sorting destination is a sorting destination to be consolidated.