Turnkey book handling system
April 1st 2006

A leading logistics company recently awarded Keymas Controls and Automation a contract to improve storage capacity, order picking and handling efficiency at its new warehouse.

Acting as main contractor, Keymas undertook an initial site survey before designing and commissioning the complete turnkey project.

This included a mezzanine floor to create additional bulk storage space, feeding to a live storage system at ground floor and a conveying system to support order picking from 12,000 picking locations.

Running parallel to the order picking face is a three tier conveying system with built-in workbench. Three different sized boxes, feeding from a new case erector, are accumulated on lineshaft driven roller conveyors for the operative to select the optimum case size. On completion of an order being picked from the live storage racking, cases are placed on a conveyor located below the workbench to be transported on a series of lineshaft powered roller and belt conveyors, via case sealers and taping machines also supplied by Keymas, to a marshalling area for sorting and despatch.

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