Winkel Offers Fast Pick Station to Meet Modern Packaging Challenges

In today’s fast-paced warehouses and production environments, efficiency, flexibility, and ergonomics are key. From palletizing and depalletizing to mixed packing and order picking, workers are expected to handle a wide variety of goods quickly and safely—often across multiple product types, weights, and packaging styles. Without the right equipment, this can lead to inefficiency, errors, and strain on the operator.

Winkel developed the Fast Pick Station to meet these modern challenges. This innovative system enhances workplace ergonomics, streamlines material flow, and enables efficient mixed packing operations—allowing diverse goods to be picked, sorted, and palletized together with maximum accuracy and care. The result is optimized space utilization, fewer handling steps, and faster order fulfillment.

Designed for versatility, the Fast Pick Station is ideal for industries where mixed SKU handling is essential, including automotive and supplier logistics, food and beverage, textiles, and healthcare.

Smarter Design for Better Workflow

The Fast Pick Station features a height-adjustable picking table mounted on a platform, a shaft below for load transfer, and an integrated stretch-wrapping system. Pallets, roller containers, or mesh boxes can be positioned on the table—delivered individually via conveyor or trays for flexible mixed packing configurations.

Operators can easily adjust the table height to their optimal working position, allowing items to be moved horizontally instead of lifted. This minimizes strain, reduces injury risk, and enables efficient handling of mixed product sizes and weights.

When a carrier is full, it automatically lowers through the shaft to the integrated stretch-wrapping machine, which secures the goods for transport—maintaining stability even with heterogeneous mixed loads. A new empty carrier is immediately positioned to keep the workflow continuous, while operators can continue working on an interim surface, eliminating downtime.

Performance That Delivers Results

With the Fast Pick Station, operators can achieve up to 800 picks per hour—without heavy lifting or complex reconfiguration. Its precise process control virtually eliminates picking errors, ensuring accuracy even in mixed order fulfillment environments.

Two employees can work simultaneously at the same station, and the system’s open design provides easy access from all sides. For further optimization, the Fast Pick Station can be integrated into fully automated robotic systems, providing continuous, flexible mixed packing capabilities around the clock.

The result: higher throughput, fewer errors, improved safety, and consistent quality—even for complex mixed loads. The Fast Pick Station not only enhances productivity and ergonomics but also enables smarter logistics by simplifying how varied goods are handled and packed together.

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