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Conveyor Systems keeps pace with fashion success March 29, 2012   European Conveyor Systems (ECS) has played a major role in a £2.5 million project to expand warehousing facilities for fashion retailer Boden in Leicester, from which 12,500 parcels a day are currently despatched to customers. The extra warehouse capacity has been achieved by linking two buildings with a two-way conveyor in a 90-metre-long covered bridge and installing new racking and conveyors to minimise walking time for staff and improve productivity. The conveyor system installed by ECS is designed to carry a wide variety of cardboard cartons and plastic tote boxes up to a maximum weight of 20kg from the goods-in reception area to specified storage locations and onward to picking areas in both buildings, as determined by bar-codes on each item read by automatic scanners at transfer routing points.  Throughput was specified by Boden at 480 boxes an hour over a 16-hour day, six days a week. In-coming cartons are off-loaded from pallets at ten work-stations in the new building and identified with individual bar code labels that are scanned into a computer-based control system and which specifies their destination in the warehouses.  The boxes are then pushed on to a conveyor which carries them to a specified location in multi-level bulk storage areas in the two buildings.  Mis-coded or damaged boxes are diverted automatically on to a separate spur to be dealt with. The conveyor system includes zero-pressure accumulation sections at transfers and bar-code reader points, which allows boxes to queue without touching.  If an accumulation section becomes full, the system dies back on a cascade basis and then re-starts automatically when the accumulation clears. The main conveyor running from the goods-in area through the bridge to the original warehouse is reversible to allow cartons and boxes to be transported back to the start point at designated times. Steel shutters provide one-hour fire resistance where the bridge conveyor meets the two buildings.     More ASAR Articles Related Research Article source: http://www.logisticshandling.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=2128&z=0 Import Services Limited choose Newland boom conveyor systems Toolbank look to Conveyor Systems to streamline order picking process Caterpillar chooses CI Logistics for conveyor systems Conveyor Networks completes automated conveyor system for HMV and are awarded a 12-month support contract for their internet fulfilment centre Telescopic conveyor from Caljan Rite-Hite

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