Pick-to-Light
Lights show where to pick and how many. Pickers press to confirm.
In plain words
Lights on shelves show pickers exactly where to pick and how many. They press the light to confirm, so mistakes drop and new staff learn in minutes.
- Who it's for
- Warehouses, dark stores and e-commerce fulfilment centres.
- How to start
- Equip one picking zone and measure speed and errors.
Words on this page, explained
- WMS:
- Warehouse management system: the software that knows what's on every rack.
- Gateway:
- A small box on the ceiling or wall that relays messages between devices and the cloud.
Every location in an order lights up with its quantity. The picker picks, presses enter, and the light goes out; the last light off closes the zone and the tote moves on. Hardware and software are designed and owned in-house, so new picking modes switch on in software, not new hardware. Freezer zones, long aisles and live health data are designed in.
What it does
- Pick nodes with 3 quantity displays and 4 keys
- One chain per rack; a fault on one rack leaves the rest running
- Central app holds every rule and order status; hosts buffer if the network drops
- Automatic, partly automatic or manual replenishment
- Start orders by handheld, kiosk, fixed or ring-3 scanner
- WMS connectors and live pick-rate dashboards
Used for
- Store-replenishment picking in DCs
- Freezer and chiller zones
- Replacing ageing pick-to-light without retraining
Warehousing · pick-to-light
Let the shelves show the way.
A picker with a paper list walks, searches and sometimes grabs from the wrong bin. With pick-to-light, the right bins light up with how many to take, in the shortest order.
Aisle 3 · order 1042
Order 1042 · 4 items
- Paper list1:20 · 1 wrong pick
- Pick-to-light0:33 · 0 wrong picks
Simulated walk for one order. Real gains depend on the layout and order mix.
What you’re seeing: the same order picked two ways. Switch between Paper list and Pick-to-light to see the walk get shorter, the time drop and the wrong pick disappear.
For engineers
Each bin has a light-and-digit module on a low-power wireless or wired bus. The ThingsX Console takes orders from your WMS, batches them, sequences the route and lights the next bins; a press on the module confirms the pick and posts it back to the WMS in real time.
Order 1042 packed in 0:33 with no wrong picks.
See Pick-to-Light working
Come to our Experience Center in Hyderabad, India, or book a remote demo over video. Tell us how many stores or sites you run.