High speed sorting system
September 1st 2005

Systems integrator SDI Greenstone has installed a high speed customdesigned automated sortation and conveyor system for book distributor La Caravelle in Belgium.

Handling 18 000 books each day, it enables orders to be despatched on the day they are received.

Books picked from the bulk store go into an automatic sorter where they are separated into orders for individual stores.

Cartons of sorted books then pass through automatic labelling and sealing machines onto a robotic palletiser, ready for onward delivery.

The SDI Greenstone system can take assembled orders (particularly for large quantities of single titles) direct from the bulk store to the scanner and labeller, by-passing the sorter.

The installation includes an automatic carton erector that feeds empty boxes to drop stations and a spur conveyor that returns into the system cartons in which books arrive at the sorter from the store.

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