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WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION PROJECTS
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Warehouse management system for incoming order processing from different stores
In 1999, Axium participated in the construction of a major Distribution Centre located in the Montreal metropolitan area for one of Canada’s leading distributor and retailer of hardware, home improvement and gardening products.
A section of the new facility was dedicated to the treatment of orders requiring to be fulfilled through a picking process. The picking zones include thousands of feet of conveyors, looping on three levels, each having four distinct picking areas. All levels are interconnected with incline and decline conveyors.
Store orders are broken down by their warehouse and order management systems into smaller manageable sizes that fit into uniquely identified “totes”. Our conveyor management system is connected with those systems to generate pick lists to be automatically dropped into the “totes” as they are induced into the system. Each picking area is preceded by a scanner which identifies the “tote” and allows the conveyor control system to resolve whether the “tote” needs to enter the picking zone or not.
Once a “tote” has visited all required zones, it exits the picking area to be treated at the sorting and palletizing area. The “totes” are once again scanned and then diverted to their proper palletizing lane.
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Robotic palletizing system for frozen fish boxes
System with 3 robots that can palletize cases being discharged straight off fishing vessels.
System must read the information on the cans and sort up to 8 different products to be palletized simultaneously.
System capacity is 133 cases per minute.
Delivered Solution:
- Three Axium IXOFLEX™ cells, each one including:
- A case conveyor circuit with a two camera DVT vision system, which sorts the cases and sends them to the robot.
- Eight case infeeds called RowMakers™. The RowMakers™ are special case conveyors that prepare an entire layer as per the desired palletizing pattern. The robot then takes the entire layer and positions it on the pallet, thereby yielding a higher case per minute capacity.
- An AG4048 Axium palette dispenser able to dispense 40” x 48” palettes at a rate of one palette per minute. This palette dispenser is especially designed to realign stacks of palettes that have been misaligned.
- An ultra flexible Axium palette conveyor system feeds empty pallets to three robots and then transports full pallets from the robots to the stretch wrapper.
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