Accu-Sort Systems Help Distribution Center Achieve 99.997 Percent Accuracy and Increased Capacity.PHILADELPHIA -- Accu-Sort([R]) Systems, Inc. announced that newly installed bar code scanning, labeling and sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. systems are delivering higher throughput and 99.997 percent accuracy at a distribution center that handles retail software and entertainment discs as well as computer hardware such as keyboards and game consoles See video game console. . The facility shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. its old single-day ship record by 63 percent and now ships 99.997 percent of units accurately, on time, and without split shipments. "The improvements in accuracy and throughput have been revolutionary," one company executive said. "We had to add a third decimal place decimal place n. The position of a digit to the right of a decimal point, usually identified by successive ascending ordinal numbers with the digit immediately to the right of the decimal point being first: to keep our statistics from rounding to 100 percent." The company's revamp re·vamp tr.v. re·vamped, re·vamp·ing, re·vamps 1. To patch up or restore; renovate. 2. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example). 3. To vamp (a shoe) anew. n. of operations, warehouse and distribution functions included switching to very narrow aisles and pick-to-light. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an engineering executive at the company, the project enabled the distribution center to expand capacity as needed as needed prn. See prn order. to accommodate seasonal peaks and support a growing business in 3rd party logistics. The Accu-Sort systems integration team designed and developed a complementary solution to improve the efficiency of the facility. The heart of the system is an Accu-Sort FAST Label([R]) System. This solution is a real-time control Real-time control is a popular term for a certain class of digital controllers. For effective digital control, it is critical that sample time be constant. Real-time control achieves nearly constant sample time. See also
The solution leverages the precision of a camera-based scan tunnel configured with five Accu-Sort AccuVision([R]) AV4000 camera bar code readers and an Accu-Sort DM3500 dimensioner. The Accu-Sort team chose camera technology over laser-based scanners because of the need to read small bar codes moving at high belt speeds. The DM3500 is used both to focus the camera on the varying carton sizes and to obtain the volume of the cartons. "Overall, our customers' goal is to get the right product to the right customer at the right time," said Pratap Chakravarthy, director of marketing with Accu Sort Systems. "That is central to our customers' businesses, and these systems give our customers a competitive advantage." For more information about Accu-Sort bar-code equipment and systems integration, visit www.accusort.com/pr/904.html. About Accu-Sort Accu-Sort Systems is a pioneer in advanced auto ID systems with more than three decades of experience deploying and supporting scanning, tracking and sortation solutions in various industries including transportation, logistics, industrial/manufacturing, and retail. The company is one of the world's leading providers of high-speed laser and camera-based solutions for bar code reading as well as complete turnkey integrated systems solutions. 1-800-BAR-CODE or www.accusort.com. Accu-Sort([R]), AccuVision([R]), AXIOM[TM] and FAST Label([R]) are trademarks of Accu-Sort Systems. For High Resolution Image: http://www.ggcomm.com/Accusort/Technicolor.JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG |
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