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Schuh steps forward with new pick-to-belt conveying system
Schuh, one of Britain’s best-known footwear retailers with 75 stores and concessions around the UK and Ireland as well as an online shop, recently appointed Astec Conveyors to design and manufacture a “pick-to-belt” conveying system at its warehouse. The new system was designed to speed up order picking, increase staff productivity and reduce picking-cage congestion by enabling the staff to pick and place products directly onto a conveyor belt for transfer to an existing automated sortation system.
The system was installed on time and within budget and without any compromise to existing operations
Individual shoe boxes are placed onto
one of three 50-metre heavy-duty conveyors that run the full length of a mezzanine floor at right angles to the racking and walkways in order to enable the fastest and most efficient batch picking process. As access to stairways and fire exits had to be maintained at all times, the system was designed with two sections of inclined/ declined belt conveyors. In order to merge two of the belt conveyor lanes into one,
Astec introduced a zero line pressure, high-speed merge system, comprising of a number of accumulation zones that are used to create slugs of products prior to merging. Completed orders are then conveyed down to an existing sortation system on the ground floor. Astec Conveyors installed and commissioned the system—
including controls—on time and within budget and without any compromise to existing operations. Commenting on the installation, Rob Bridle, head of logistics at Schuh reports, “the system enables us to quickly and efficiently pick and despatch high volumes of product. It has made a positive impact on service and productivity levels and represents very good value for money.”
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