Functions Of Conveyors

CONVEYORS

For production, receiving, shipping, or order picking, conveyor is an economical method of material handling. The flow of material is controlled and organized. With proper controls to maintain spacing, merge lanes, accumulate as necessary, incline or decline to maximize space utilization, and scanning the bar codes for identification and sortation purposes. One of its major advantages is that it will help improve in terms of productivity and the throughput level

Transportation




Conveyor can be used for the movement of material from point to point in a warehouse or production facility. Whether if it is a single cases or full pallet loads, there is a conveyor model to suit this requirement such as a live roller belt.



Accumulation

Whenever conveyed product needs to be scanned, weighed, labeled or processed in some method, carton spacing needs to be created to accommodate the control function. To create spaces between cartons it is also necessary to accumulate the upstream cartons and eliminate any line pressure. It can be accomplished by using any one of several conveyor depending on the specific requirements. it is necessary to pick ahead of the sorter and have the orders staged to ensure efficient, maximized throughput. This often requires many lanes of accumulation prior to the scanner/sorter. Without accumulation, a conveyor system is less efficient and in many cases will not function.


Sortation

The orderly flow of orders from the stock location to the shipping dock can be enhanced with the application of conveyor sortation. With the inclusion of sortation conveyors, orders can be sorted by customer, by destination, by method of shipment or any other critical data automatically. Sortation is completed at a much higher rate than being done manually.




Order Picking

Conveyor had greatly improve the efficiency and speed of the order picking process. By taking the product from the stock location on conveyor, the order picker travels less and hence, increases the picks per hour rate.
Orders can be batch picked or discreet picked, zone picked and wared picked from carton flow rack, pallet flow rack or mezzanines.





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