Walking more than 11 miles a day just to get orders out the door was once part of the job at a Kentucky home fragrance fulfillment facility.
Automating the handling of printed materials has proved a winning move for a Danish distributor. Following a successful prototype developed with Eltronic, the customer has decided to roll out the robotic solution across its production operations.
Conveyor, automation, and robotics come together in Advance Automated Systems’ latest project: four AMR picking cells designed to keep totes moving smoothly to and from operators.
The company, a leading overnight parcel carrier, has an automated parcel sortation hub accommodating up to 400 trunk movements per night. The existing automated sort system had a capacity to sort 20,000 parcels per hour.
The company required an additional small parcel and courier pack sort system to be installed above the existing parcel sorter, to provide additional sort capacity and to support business growth.
