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DC gets an uplift with new sorter
April 1st 2006

Replacing a manual operation, systems integrator SDI Greenstone has developed a custombuilt sortation system capable of handling more than 2000 cartons per hour for the Playtex lingerie distribution centre in Barcelona.

Shipping boxes are off loaded onto the sorter, which is driven by control software developed by sister company, RTI.

The sorter comprises a peripheral powered conveyor with five gravity roller conveyor spurs leading off it.

As boxes pass onto the powered conveyor, their barcodes are read by in-line scanners and they are automatically diverted by pneumatic pushers onto the roller conveyors.

The system fills up, in sequence, the five spurs - each of which has a workstation where the operator scans a loose label in the shipping box. The boxes then pass down to a second powered conveyor that takes them to a fourlane secondary scanning area where the orders are double checked and verified.

Here the shipping label has a final scan and is stuck onto the box, which is then sealed ready for onward dispatch.

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