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gentle transport of goods in pouches.
Two main advantages derived from
this concept are: crashes of pouches
and goods that usually occur on
declining conveyors are avoided; and
the horizontal allocation enables an
optimal use of space with a compact and
adapted steel structure, which can also
be built up to several floors. Switches
are used as diverter elements between
circulating and accumulation conveyors
within storage loops, the matrix sorter
or for in-feed to or take-away from work
stations.
“The new SSI Carrier is
approximately 10% smaller than
existing systems on the market. This
way, we are able to buffer up to 10%
more carriers,” stressed Klaus Hiesgen,
managing director of HSP GmbH,
the competence centre for overhead
conveying systems in the SSI Schaefer
group.
The reduced size results in increased
storage density and thus the system
contributes to increased efficiency and
reduced costs. Another advantage of
the overhead conveying system is the
flexible and gentle transport in pouches
of hanging goods and flat goods of
the business areas Pharmaceuticals,
Cosmetics, Electronics or F&B. The
speed of the conveyor can easily be
adapted to the characteristics of the
transported goods.
Parallel processing of multiple
sales channels — including
efficient returns management
A very efficient application of the
system is dynamic returns buffering.
The returned and checked goods are
registered, placed in pouches and stored
directly in a dynamic buffer for direct
sales. Then, the goods are transported
to a batch buffer and are immediately
ready for shipping. The process ensures
permanent and reliable availability of
the buffered items and meets a direct
requirement for e-commerce. The
matrix sorter is used for sorting load
carriers in order to create correctly
sequenced customer orders from
batches. For this purpose, entire lines
are retrieved from the batch buffer to
undergo one or several sorting steps.
After that, the correctly sequenced
orders can be repacked at the packing
stations or further processed. Based
on the multi-order picking principle,
fewer accesses to individual items in
the warehouse are generated and the
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SSI Carrier System is a single drive system with five different functions: conveying,
accumulating, distributing, buffering and sorting.
“With the in-house development
of the SSI Carrier and the steel
structure, together with the
suitable IT solution, the customer
receives a one-source solution at
SSI Schaefer.”
— Klaus Hiesgen,
Managing Director of HSP GmbH
staff deployment is correspondingly
optimised. In addition to processing
e-commerce orders, the SSI Carrier
system facilitates store-friendly delivery
— this means that one single system
can easily sequence several sizes of the
same item for the store.
Single-source solution
The sophisticated, user-friendly software
and control technology of SSI Schaefer
perfects this overhead conveying system.
Cutting-edge visualisation technology
and optimum interfaces to the customer
system ensure that it can be smoothly
integrated into almost any type of
warehouse.
“The e-commerce business faces a
highly dynamic development. Goods —
increasingly also food and beverage —
must arrive at the customers faster and
faster. Performances with up to 10,000
load carriers per hour and a matrix
sorting of B2C orders in this dimension
and with this product variety are only
possible with the SSI Carrier system.
We offer our e-commerce customers
a cost-efficient and compact solution
for large dynamic buffers. With the in-
house development of the SSI Carrier
and the steel structure, together with
the suitable IT solution, the customer
receives a one-source solution at SSI
Schaefer,” Hiesgen summed up. ra