Sortation

At a press conference on Monday, Tompkins Robotics (Booth B7240) revealed its tSort3D, among other products.

Hytrol (Booth B9411) is presenting its ProSort 1400 LP, a sorter featuring a patent-pending heavy slat and breakaway shoe design.

With around 1,200 employees, Siemens Logistics mail and parcel business generates annual revenue of about €500 million.

Pitman Creek, one of the largest distributors of freshwater fishing tackle in North America, consolidated and expanded space in a new automated facility. The result: a 250% improvement in picking efficiency.

While the stories this month delve into a few unique niches of materials handling, it’s fascinating to see that the current operations environment is the common denominator.

Much has been made about the rise of robotics and the inflexibility of traditional fixed conveyor and sortation. But the fixed future is shaping up just fine, given that goods-to-person robotics and AMRs work often in concert with conveyor or sortation, in addition to the continued usefulness of fixed conveyance and sortation to support high-volume operations.

How Storeganizer can optimize the space usage and improve productivity in the picking process

Enables B2C logistics company Athinaiki S.A. to provide fast, accurate fulfillment

The solution for the 750,000 square foot facility will include AutoStore goods-to-person technology, overhead pouch sortation conveyor, bulk parcel conveyor, returns processing, tilt tray sortation, and Bastian's WES software.

E-commerce sales are booming and warehouse space is expensive and hard to find. Here’s how creative companies can make the most out of their unused overhead space.

Tompkins Robotics' solution uses a mobile robot to remove completed order containers from a sortation process and place empty order containers in position

MHS to open new production facility in Kentucky

The retail leader gave new life to an existing facility that sets the standard for e-fulfillment at Gap Inc. What’s more, it brought the 1.2-million-square-foot facility online two months ahead of schedule during a pandemic.

Hytrol names Fort Smith, Ark., as site of second facility focused on manufacturing its parcel product line

Futch, who has served as the company’s president since 2017, will retain that position and continue to lead the design and forward movement of Tompkins Robotics and its core system, the t-Sort autonomous mobile robot solution