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Automated Dispatching Systems     Location ..... Essex PMS International supply household goods and soft toys to a huge cross section of UK outlets. In order to cope with fluctuations imposed by customers and lower operational costs Director Neil Beverly needed to improve picking performance. Like many distribution companies PMS employed a paper based picking system, where pickers would collect picking requests on a customer basis, potentially causing them to visit a picking location multiple times, introducing inefficiencies due to vastness of the warehouse picking areas.......... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Just In Time Delivery System     Location ..... Staffordshire Pirelli Tyres Ltd in Burton supply wheel assemblies, or fitments, on a just in time basis to all three of Jaguar's manufacturing plants in the UK, Pirelli must ensure that fitments are delivered to a strict timescale........ Click Here To Dowload PDF          Click Here To View Movie

Footwear Automation and WM System     Location ..... London As part of a re-location to larger premises Faith Shoes had a requirement to automate the handling of product and implement a total warehouse management system. Since this time our engineers have been working with Faith developing the site to meet their business needs. Initially as a sub-contractor to a conveyor company we implemented the automation, product routing and tracking systems and were then awarded with the warehouse management system order directly........... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Order Picking System     Location ..... West Midlands Unifix are the second largest supplier of building materials, fixings, tools and power tools to the UK building trade. Supplying next day delivery to sites has allowed Unifix to grow to a scale where their current manual picking methods could not support next day delivery when receiving orders as late as 6.00pm in the evening............. Click Here To Dowload PDF

Re-Usable Tote Handling Line     Location ..... South East Palmers A customer, needed a solution for automatically de-stacking returned totes onto a sorting system at one every three seconds. The totes had to be rotated as necessary to ensure that an imbedded RF tag was always presented in the correct manner to the filling machines. The allotted space was very restricted to enable fork lift traffic to gain access past the machine making design of the machine critical........ Click Here To Dowload PDF          Click Here To View Movie

High Bay Automated Storage and Picking System     Location ..... Cumbria This project was required to store a large amount of varying products within a small area of floor space with the benefit of automatically calling the products to set picking locations reducing the walking time of operators........ Click Here To Dowload PDF

Fibre Glass Handling System     Location ..... South Wales The current control and conveyor system was troublesome and out of date with the customer requirements. The new system had to be installed during a shut-down period to minimise downtime. This meant extended working hours onsite to ensure the project targets were achieved........... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Bulk Storage Container Handling Line     Location ..... Koln - Germany In a quest to increase productivity, Ford recently installed an automatic container handling system at its Cologne plant, that supports production of the Fiesta range. The handling system was required to ensure the rapid and efficient movement of reusable plastic containers that are used to transfer both assemblies and components. The containers measure 1m x 1.2m x 1m and feature an integral pallet base.......... Click Here To Dowload PDF          Click Here To View Movie

Order Picking System Upgrade     Location ..... Leciestershire Pearson Education's I/T department had a need to carry out as much in house support on their order picking and packing conveyor system as possible, they wanted the flexibility to make configuration changes to the system on a day to day basis if required. They also wanted to be able to carry out disaster recovery without needing to call on a third party. Axiom redeveloped the operating and control software for the site.......... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Sortation System Control Upgrade     Location ..... Yorkshire Due to our extensive knowledge of sortation systems and software Axiom were approached by a small UK conveyor manufacture to upgrade the software for an existing sortation system that they had supplied. The upgrade was to include the introduction of automatic omni-directional scanning, eleminating the need for manual hand entry of products entering the sortation system........ Click Here To Dowload PDF

High Speed Sortation System     Location ..... Offenburg - Germany To ensure that its labelling and distribution operations achieved the same high standards as its products, Deluxe Video called upon Axiom’s proven experience and technical expertise to supply and install a state-of-the-art sorting and labelling solution for the company’s video and DVD manufacturing operation in Offenburg, Germany. The main elements of the innovative machinery design incorporate a tailored version of Axiom’s newly-launched Series 25 sorter together with a revolutionary high speed, variable height label applicator............ Click Here To Dowload PDF

Sortation System Software Upgrade     Location ..... West Midlands and Manchester Due to demands in higher throughput Axiom was called upon to re-develop sortation system software and controls for one of the world's largest supply chain solutions. The system receives parcels from six standing trailers, merges the parcels onto the main take away conveyor, where they are scanned using an omni-directional scanning array on the top and side faces. Parcels are then dynamically sorted to any one of twenty destination lanes, the system's uniqueness allows multiple sort to destinations with overspill characteristics if the sort to destination becomes full......... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Packing and Dispatch Conveyor System     Location ..... Essex Once again Deluxe Media selected Axiom to supply a packing and dispatch carton conveyor solution for thier distribution centre in Enfield. The system carries parcels from either end of the warehouse on high level transportation conveyor to a centralised packing area, semi-automatic packing machines are used to seal the cartons. Packed cartons are dynamically merged at high speed back into the system, where they are carried on Axiom's SW Sorter to their destination dispatch lane. The system automatically carries out quality control functions with the use of a dynamic check weigh. Interfaces with SAP allow shipping information to be passed between Deluxe and Axiom........ Click Here To Dowload PDF          Click Here To View Movie

Manual Cross Docking System     Location ..... Staffordshire Palletways found themselves faced with a requirement to carry out a secondary level sort for one of their clients. Allowing containers of bulk picked product to be delivered to their site in Fradley gave Palletways' customer the ability to improve their picking effeceincy, whilst in the knowledge that the product would be sorted into final consignments by Palletways. Containers of product are delivered to Fradley, unloaded and manually sorted using Axiom's manual cross docking facility into shipping consingments....... Click Here To Dowload PDF

Automatic Cross Docking System     Location ..... London Faith Shoes distribute cartons of shoes across the UK to each of their stores. The cartons arrive at the head office ditribution cente in London in containers, traditionally the containers were unloaded by hand and the stock was located and stored in the warehouse, this meant that each carton was handlded multiple times by warehousing staff prior to it being finally picked and dispatched. In order to improve product flow and minimis distribution time, Axiom installed a fully automated cross docking...... Click Here To Dowload PDF

High Speed Labelling System     Location ..... Paris - France Deluxe Media Services, had a requirement to automatically label media such as DVD's and vidoes at speeds of typically 100m/min (around 200 products per minute). In order to acheive this high speed Axiom supplied 4 fully automatic servo controlled labelling machines. The line was also supplied with an automatic induct solution and a final automated stacking solution. Labels can be applied in any position on a single location on the top face and three single locations on the bottom face of the product. Click Here To Dowload PDF

High Speed Labelling and Sortation System     Location ..... Madrid - Spain Once again Axiom found themselves supplying an automated labelling and sortation system to Deluxe Media this time at the Spanish operation in Madrid. The system consists of three automatic induction points where media is loaded at 180 products per minute in to the system. Product lines are merged, subsequently each item is omni-diretionally scanned. The control systems establish who the product is for and any special labelling requirements, a single dynamically printed label can be applied to any position on the back face of the product, a single pre-printed label can be applied in any position on the front face of the product. Product is transported on to the sortation system where it is sorted automatically to one of 40 sortation points................... Click Here To Dowload PDF          Click Here To View Movie

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