Dual Tilt Sorter
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Developed exclusively for high volume multimedia distribution operations
With the retail price of CDs having almost halved in the last 5 years and the selling price of DVDs set to fall further, retailers are increasingly turning to high speed automation systems in order to ramp up their throughput while at the same time reducing their operational costs. The SDIGroup USA Dual Tilt Sorter has been developed exclusively for high volume multimedia distribution and can be applied to both retail and wholesale operations.
The Dual Tilt sorter is a tilt tray-based flat sorter, which circulates in a horizontal plane, delivering product to drop-stations which represent individual store locations.
This sorter has the capacity to sort up to 10,000 units per hour when fed by automatic induction. The induction belt is synchronised with the speed of the sorter to ensure that every empty sorter tray receives product for as long as the belt itself is being fed. Feeding the belt could not be simpler: stacks of bulk-picked CDs or DVDs are placed into a destacking machine, a large cartridge which automatically places each item on to the induction belt. Spacer bars on the belt subsequently ensure that the items are correctly positioned for induction to the sorter and an omnidirectional scanner identifies the product and ensures there is a requirement for it within the sorter’s pre-allocated distribution.
Items which have been wrongly picked are automatically allocated to a ‘reject’ drop-station prior to circulation. The sorter has an accuracy factor of approximately 99.8%.
To see our CD sorter in action, please take a look at our video of our installation at Bertus in Holland: CD/DVD Sorter, ready about our installation at HMV, Guernsey:
HMV Case Study (805 KB)
Fully Integrated Labelling System
SDIGroup USA can easily interface with existing WMS software and mechanical equipment to provide smooth-running, tailored solutions for your DC. Print and apply labelling systems are just one step upstream from automated CD & DVD sortation and can be supplied with a sorter as part of a fully integrated, fully automated package. Campaign labels, pricing labels and security tags can all be applied to product immediately before it is auto-placed on to the sorter’s induction belt.
