In today’s warehouse environments, efficiency is key to keeping up with increasing supply and demand. To stay on top of the game, automation often plays a role in warehouse systems, particularly conveyors. These allow more activities to happen in less time and play a crucial role in the sortation process. What exactly is warehouse sortation, and what role do conveyors play in this process? Let’s get into it!
What is Sortation?
Sortation is the process of organizing items into groups. A sortation system is a process using equipment to identify and move items into a certain location based on its characteristics. These characteristics can include weight, size, and final destination. This system can have a significant effect on warehouse operations – see why below!
What is the Role of Conveyors in Sortation?
Conveyor systems greatly increase efficiency with the sortation process. See the benefits that these sortation conveyors bring.
Accuracy: Conveyor systems often have scanners and sensors that help them identify what’s in front of them. With the scanners in place, the conveyor is able to move the items to their correct destination. This can reduce the amount of time spent on sorting products as well, allowing you to be able to take on more and increase productivity.
More Resources & Safety: With less time spent on the sortation process, resources can be used elsewhere where they are needed more. With your workforce focusing on other tasks, this can reduce manual labor, decreasing workplace injuries. This allows for less people to be handling and lifting heavy or bulky items, creating a safer warehouse environment.
Flexibility: Warehouse operation needs can change over time especially if your supply and demand increases or if your setup needs to change. Conveyors are great as they can change with you. Our team at ISS Material Handling is able to adapt your automation solutions to meet your changing needs. These material handling solutions are customized to you, which allows for more flexibility.
At ISS Material Handling, we offer a range of high-quality warehouse sortation systems from Daifuku. As a Daifuku Integrator, we are excited to be able to offer a variety of conveyors to best meet your needs. The automation sortation system conveyors we offer include: Sliding Shoe Sorter, Multi-Belt Sorter, and a Pop-up Wheel Sorter.
Sliding Shoe Sorter: this can move at high speeds and will divert items off the conveyor that are identified by your chosen characteristics. The slope-sided divert shoes allow for gentle handling, and this conveyor is great for heavy duty applications as it can handle products up to 100 lbs.
Multi-Belt Sorter: this pop-up divert system that can sort up to 100 products per minute. The system requires minimal maintenance, has low noise levels, and requires less power than other options.
Pop-up Wheel Sorter: this offers several divert alternatives and is very flexible to meet your sorting needs. What’s great about this option is that it’s quiet and can be relatively inexpensive.
Be sure to reach out to us to learn more about the different types of sortation systems we offer. ISS Material Handling can offer customized conveyor sortation systems to help streamline your operations. Let’s start chatting to find you the best automated sortation solutions.
