CASE STUDY: Automated Warehouse Shipping System

The Problem: Reduce Pick Errors and Shipping Labor

CASI worked with Cisco-Eagle Material Handling on an automated material handling and sortation system for a warehouse that supplied hair care items to salons across the country. A custom host interface needed to be established to the custom order picking system.

The Solution: In line Checkweigh with Shipping Sortation

CASI proposed an in line checkweigh system to check for missing items being picked and a simple sortation system using SolidRoute express. An interface to the customer’s custom order entry system was established using SolidComm.

System Overview

After items are picked by the carousel system into the carton, they are transported to the in line checkweigher using the 24 volt DC roller conveyor system.

The license plate barcode is scanned from the side of the carton as the carton enters the 921 checkweigher.

Cartons that pass the checkweigh process round a curve and travel to the shipping sortation area. Cartons that fail are diverted to a QC station manned by the person adding dunnage and operating the semi-automatic case sealer.

After the carton is filled with dunnage, the cartons travel to the three lanes of shipping sortation where they are sorted. SolidRoute express uses a fixed mount barcode scanner at each lane to read the barcode, eliminating tracking and complex controls. This produces a lower cost install for systems less than 6 lanes.

Benefits from the new efficiencies

The system allowed the end user to reduce pick errors and lower labor costs related to shipping sortation.

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