EzSort: EzGarment Assembly and Sorting System

A product control system for order completion comprising:

• a housing having a plurality of indicators, each indicator provides a human sensible indication of customer order status;
• a plurality of delivery separators integrally associated with the housing, each delivery separator of said plurality of delivery separators has an indicator of the plurality of indicators associated with it;
• a customer specific tag to be applied to each item of the order presented by a customer;
• a computer including an operator interface and an output to each of said plurality of indicators, said operator interface including an input device allowing an operator to identify a customer and an item associated with said customer;
• and
• a scanning device capable of reading each customer specific tag and providing an input to said computer that said customer specific tag has been scanned.

A method for sorting and assembling items prepared for delivery to a customer comprising:

• associating an item specific, customer specific identification tag on each item to be prepared;
• entering each item identification into a computer control system and monitoring the progress of each item in the preparation process;
• wherein each item forms a portion of an order identifiable with a specific customer;
• processing all items to be prepared;
• retrieving an item that has been prepared and using said tag to identify the item to the computer control system;
• activating a human sensible indicator integrally and directly associated with a movable housing movably attached to a rack, wherein the human sensible indicator at the movable housing is above an assembly location for items on the rack for items belonging to a particular order such that a human operator may move the retrieved item to the assembly location;
• repeating the retrieving an item and the activating a human sensible indicator steps above until all items in a particular order have been assembled;
• and
• activating a human sensible indicator on said assembly location to indicate the order is complete.