Systems integrator, Ferag, and auto-boxing provider, Sparck Technologies, have partnered to develop a continuous ‘one touch’ process from order-picking to individual fit-to-size boxes ready for despatch.
The companies believe the move is set to close the gap between order picking and packing, to allow e-commerce companies to offer customers reportedly more secure boxed orders, without manual intervention.
The one touch process came soon after Ferag installed its Skyfall automated pouch sortation system at a retail brand’s e-commerce centre in the UK.
Equipped with 24,000 overhead pouches the Ferag system carries, directs and sorts a wide variety of picked goods from pick-stations, served by ASRS and Autostore systems, to more than 70 manual packing benches and one automated fit-to-size boxing system – a CVP Everest from Sparck Technologies.
The Skyfall pouch system is located on a mezzanine level above the Autostore system. Here, ordered items are picked from totes into open pouches and carried away, sorted and accumulated within storage buffers, before being called off to order and delivered to speed to packing benches.
The system is designed for a throughput of 16,000 pouches per hour, with a buffer capacity of an hour, where pouches can be held for single or multiple item orders.
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