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SDI ensures BHS’ systems are future-proof
April 1st 2005

SDI Greenstone has completed an upgrade of the automated sortation system at BHS’s national distribution centre (NDC) in Atherstone, operated by Excel. The work, on the installation’s control protocols, was undertaken to simplify the system and extend its working life. SDI Greenstone says it has in effect ‘designed out’ any risk of obsolescence.

The automated handing garment system that SDI installed in the BHS NDC several years ago was the first of its kind in the UK. It carries trolleys holding sets of garments on hangers through storage, sortation and despatch, when at the time the orthodoxy was for garments to be handled individually. This approach has enabled the 55,750m2 NDC to handle 30,000 sets – as many as 150,000 garments – per day.

While the system was performing perfectly, the currency of its control system was an issue. SDI has now separated the systems controlling the transport/storage and sortation functions. Now the flow of garment sets from goods in to storage lanes and up to the pre-sort induction point is governed by a new PC-based PLC system – and the sortation operation controlled by a separate computer with software written by SDI sister company RTI.

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