Synopsis of Warehouse Sortation and Shipping Control System

Situation: A large retailer purchased a new high-speed conveyor system that includes 20 shipping lanes. The company contracted an automation engineering firm to design/develop a Warehouse Sortation and Shipping Controls System to run the new conveyor line. Issue: The preliminary design of the controls did not satisfy the customer’s scanning response time requirement to support package movement speeds of 450 feet per minute complete with high-speed sortation of packages to the 20 shipping lanes. Requirement: A Warehouse Sortation and Shipping Controls System to support the high-speed sortation of packages to the 20 shipping lanes.

Brock Solutions’ Role: Assess the preliminary design that was produced by another firm, produce a new design architecture to enable the customer to maximize the capabilities of the new high-speed conveyor and drive business to new levels, and develop and commission the controls. Main Technology Components: Allen-Bradley PLC 5/40, Wonderware InTouch, Informix Online database, SmartSort, Data Highway Plus, embedded SQL in C, IBM Communication Control System, Mechanization System, and Gateway.

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