Industrial Conveying devises automated collating & palletizing system
Australian materials handling specialist Industrial Conveying (Aust) Pvt Ltd has devised a flexible automated stock keeping unit order collating and palletising system which can deal with a large variety of stock sizes and can be directly linked to production. It can also be utilised in distribution of sotck to warehouses for order assembly and dispatch of products.
This has led to a solution for slow and injury related manual handling in various industries including third party warehousing, food manufacturing industry, retail distribution, pharmaceuticals, packaged meat and poultry supply – virtually any packaged goods requiring distribution.
Tailored handling solutions integrate any combination of ICA technology including robots, gantries, layer picking, layer transfer and disassembly, cassette loading, sortation and palletising. Sub systems normally include case and pallet conveyor system, bar code and/or RFID scanning and ASRS warehouse in some instances.
Where the order assembly system is directly linked to production, various benefits can be achieved some of which being that the product is only handled once, thereby eliminating the requirement of bulk palletising of products after production, and in some instances totally eliminates the need to store in warehouse and picking sequence thereby generally lowering SKU inventory.
Essentially, the ICA solution targets those businesses that process orders in one of three ways: those that palletise in layers, those that do rainbow pallets and those that column or random stack.
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