Shipping and Outgoing Goods

This solution is used to distribute complete and ready-to-ship packages to different shipping destinations. The conveyor system is suspended from the ceiling to save space on the floor. ConBoom^® telescopic belt conveyors make it possible to load swap bodies, trucks or vans. To achieve this, the telescopic belt conveyor can be extended and therefore reach into the inside of the truck. This allows an employee to stay in the truck and get the packages transported to the right place depending on the fill level. This solution includes a telescopic belt conveyor for each shipping destination. The shipping destinations can therefore be served at the same time. The goods are sorted either by using a barcode scanner and, if necessary, by communicating with a higher-level system to locate the destination, or by manual settings if the destinations are served consecutively. Barcodes can also be read without communicating with higher-level systems. In this case, however, the barcode itself must clearly indicate which destination is to be served.

• The packages which are ready for dispatch are transported via a belt conveyor to a higher conveyor level. The packages travel to the shipping destinations on a conveyor system suspended from the ceiling.

• The packages are then sorted to shipping destinations/carriers. The destination is either determined beforehand via a scanner or can be changed manually.

• The packages are transported via chutes to telescopic belt conveyors.

• The telescopic belt conveyors are used for loading trucks or swap bodies.

• The packages which are ready for dispatch are aligned on the conveyor system and then optionally weighed and strapped.

• In case of high throughputs or if redundancy is required, at least two strappers are necessary.

• The packages are brought to a higher conveying level using a belt conveyor and then sorted to different shipping destinations.

• The shipping destination can be manually set or determined by a scanner.

• Swap bodies or trucks can also be ergonomically loaded at the shipping destinations through the optional use of telescopic belt conveyors.

Sorting systems can be used to sort large volumes of ready-to-dispatch conveyance goods to a wide range of destinations. A sorter not only offers economic advantages. The automated process, in particular identification and determining the destination, minimises errors and simultaneously reduces the demand for shipping personnel. Our sorting solutions can be used in a flexible capacity.

• The picked goods are packed and loaded onto a feed line to the sorter

• The feed lines run to the sorter infeeds, which transfer the conveyance good to the sorter

• The sorter transports the conveyance goods to the desired destination or end point and can manage high throughput rates

• The packages are removed at the end points either directly or via a telescopic belt conveyor and placed in trucks, containers or loading bridges

The solution is used to sort cartons which are packaged and ready for dispatch to various destinations. The sorting process is carried out automatically. The destination lines offer a certain number of buffer spaces in order to absorb asynchronous processes during the removal of the sorted conveyance goods. This sorting solution can be used in Shipping / Outgoing Goods, for example. The destinations may include different shipping service providers or destination countries. The solution requires the conveyance goods to have a label with a unique ID. The destination can either be coded into the label or the destination can be determined by communicating with a higher-level system (e.g. ERP, WMS and LVS). Optionally, the conveyance good can also be labelled, weighed with a scale or strapped beforehand. After sorting, the packages are removed from the conveyor system and then placed on pallets or in trolleys.

• The packages are transported to the shipping destinations on the conveyor system. The packages are scanned on the way there. The packages can be weighed, labelled or strapped in front of the scanner.

• The packages are then distributed to the shipping destinations. The packages can be distributed either manually or according to the information provided by the scanner.

• The destination lines are often designed as gravity roller conveyors without a drive. The packages are then sorted onto pallets or into roller containers. Gravity roller conveyors should not be used for goods that significantly vary in weight

Automated guided vehicles can organise outgoing goods in a highly flexible manner with overhead transport systems. The autonomous vehicles pick up pallets or other large load carriers in the warehouse or in production and transport them to buffer tracks in the Outgoing Goods department. The buffer tracks can be used to buffer several pallets, for example, before they are loaded into a truck or container. Sequence-controlled buffering can also be used to make the subsequent unloading of the truck as efficient as possible.

• AGVs pick up load carriers in production or in the warehouse

• AGVs drive into the Outgoing Goods department

• AGVs feed pallets onto buffer tracks

• After the buffer tracks, the packages are loaded onto the truck or into the container. This can be carried out manually with a forklift truck or automatically with a truck loading system