Method for automatically stacking packages in layers on a support

A method for an automatic, multi-layered stacking of packing pieces of different dimensions on a carrier in a predetermined spatial arrangement to form a stack, comprising the steps of:

• computerized determining of a sequence and spatial position of the packing pieces in the stack to be formed on the carrier to generate a predetermined sequence and predetermined spatial positions of the packing pieces, wherein the packing pieces include packing pieces of different dimensions;
• obtaining the packing pieces in a singulated sequence by conveying equipment;
• transporting the packing pieces to be loaded from the conveying equipment to the predetermined spatial positions on the carrier or the stack being formed on the carrier by a handler of a stacking device to form the stack
• computerized checking using the predetermined sequence and the predetermined spatial position of the packing pieces as to whether at least two packing pieces that follow one another on a conveying path of the conveying equipment leading into the stacking device can be transported together by the handler to the predetermined spatial positions on the carrier or the stack being formed on the carrier;
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• wherein the at least two successive packing pieces are handled together if it is determined in said computerized checking using the predetermined sequence and the predetermined spatial positions that the at least two successive packing pieces can be handled together.