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How does Lego sort Lego?
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:22:42 GMT
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When the bricks are first made, they're dropped into large buckets. Then a
miracle occurs. Then pieces are very acuratly sorted into polybags. How are
the bricks sorted? It would almost have to be automated. If that's the case,
could that process be used for bulk ordering? It would be nice if this sorting
and packaging machine could be fed automatically from robots in a warehouse (or
something) so that we could place an order on the website which would be sent
to the warehouse for packaging. We would receive the pieces we requested in
neat little bags just like from the store. Then, Lego could place instructions
from all of their previous sets (as well as some of the larger displays or sets
that were suggested but never released for whatever reason ) on their website.
We could browse these sets, then with a click of a button, place an order for
all the bricks needed to make that set. It would arrive in a dacta-type plain
box complete with color instructions. I think this is a tall order, but
internet shopping is where the future is. And the beauty of internet shopping
is that it allows you to get arround the limitations of retail. Amazon.com for
instance has a selection five or ten times that of a walk-in book store. That
would be impossible in a retail store. This setup would allow lego to
esentially offer any set they've ever made in addition to other things without
having to worry about fitting all the options on a shelf. You don't even
have to spend the money on designing and making an attractive box. You could
set up a terminal in the imagination centers. Enter a theme and price range,
see the matching sets on a monitor, add the selections to the virtual shopping
cart, and swipe a credit card. If you could do this and still be able to
select individual pieces, I think this would be everyone's dream. You could
offer bulk (or individual piece) ordering and older sets all through the same
mechanism.
brian
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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| (...) Brian, There have been a few descriptions of how the bags are filled, some sort of machine with multiple circular conveyor belts that deliver the parts up to a mixing point (IIRC). The bags are then weight checked to look for errors. The new (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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| (...) More accurately, several 'small' miracles... Moulding machines drop pieces into storage containers. When the time comes to use a piece in a polybag, the storage container is dumped into a 'feeder' machine on a packing line. On to step 2: (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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| Hi Brian, In lugnet.dear-lego, Brian Lanning writes: <snip ideas about packaging - other posts explained> (...) I agree this would be great, and probably possible (IMO). You're not the first to think about this, see Todd's ideas: (URL) think that (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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| (...) sorting (...) (or (...) instructions (...) sets (...) for (...) I used to work in the distribution center for a major childrens book publisher. the way orders were done there would adapt itself well to bulk ordering for Lego. An order comes in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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