Logistex provided a full consultation and design service to assist VOW throughout the planning stage. The company used its Situational Analysis procedure and the client’s historical data, resulting in a proposal to consolidate several warehouse operations into a single distribution centre in Normanton, South Yorkshire. The solution features an extensive carton conveyor comprising of belt conveyor and 50mm diameter powered & gravity roller conveyor, including motorised roller, belt under roller & switch sorters. A full case-pick line operating at up to 2,000 containers per hour supplements the pick case function.
Each consignment is checked and scanned, then routed through a sorter at up to 2,850 items per hour. Logistex supplied its own LWS warehouse control software, designed to fully integrate with the client’s Manhattan WMS.
From an early stage Itoh Denki’s Technical Sales Engineers worked closely with Conveyor Units and Logistex to provide the best conveyor solutions and specifications to meet the system challenges. The installation has been designed to handle the diverse range of order size, volume and changes in demand. Totes can carry up to 25kg and cartons as slim as 50mm can be conveyed directly to dispatch to keep space and shipping costs to a minimum.
For the motorised roller conveyor, integration of the Power Moller® drives with Logistex’s LWS automation software was made easy with Itoh Denki’s sophisticated HB510 zone control board.
The HB510 incorporates control logic and zone-to-zone communications that facilitate valuable product buffering and separation throughout the conveyor system. The HB510 is also configurable to allow adjustment of roller speed, transfer configuration, and zone release modes. This made it ideally suited to the various control requirements of the project and was used extensively throughout.
The combination of HB510 and Power Moller® 24v motorised drives provided the ideal solution to the high speed sortation conveyor installed in the despatch area.
About Itoh Denki
Founded in 1946 in Japan, Itoh Denki introduced the first 24v DC brushless motor roller technology in 1989. Through ongoing research and development this technology has culminated in the industry standard Power Moller® range of motorised rollers.
From our head office and ISO9001 certified manufacturing plant in Kasai – Japan, Itoh Denki distributes Power Moller® globally via dedicated business operations in America, Asia, Europe and Japan. R&D and Production Engineering functions are exclusively managed in-house to ensure that Itoh Denki remains a brand of reliable quality and innovative technology.
Power Moller® 24v drives and controls can offer up to 60% energy savings compared with traditional industrial conveyor drives. These savings and our ISO14001 certified environmental management policy ensures Power Moller® technology will remain a vital component in future automated material handling projects.
About Conveyor Units
Conveyor Units are the UK’s largest privately owned conveyor & roller manufacturer, with >12,000sqm of combined office & production facilities in Stourport in the heart of the UK. From this highly autonomous UK facility CONVEYOR UNITS process the raw material, be it sheet metal for the conveyors, or the necessary compounds for plastic injection moulded parts, in order to produce an extensive range of conveyor solutions for the materials handling industry, under the registered trade mark UNI-XU.
More details can be found at; www.conveyor-units.co.uk
About Logistex
With a track record of over 70 years in the materials handling industry, Logistex is the leading 4Pi for warehouse design, specification and installation as well as ongoing maintenance and support. Logistex is not constrained by its own product manufacturing, which means they have total freedom to specify and integrate anyone’s products without compromise.