 | 14 million orders a year
Everything from fashion textiles, household and electrical goods to underwear, watches and jewellery: in 2005 alone, some 14 million customer orders or 20 million packages were
handled by Robert Klingel GmbH & Co KG at its Pforzheim base in Germany. Some 70,000 to 120,000 consignments are dispatched daily. Klingel has responded to these gigantic
order volumes - a sure sign of satisfied customers - with an incisive approach: rationalisation through automation.
Directly. Gently. Ingeniously.
Vertically configured, the 52-metre-long Interroll cross-belt sorter serves 84 end points. This complex system for package and bag consignments (textiles, jewellery, watches) is
set up for direct sortation. Once the cross-belt carriers (500 x 500 mm) reach the destination assigned to them by the control unit, outward transfer of the bags is handled by
two-metre-high roller containers that are ordered by postal codes. A high degree of discharge accuracy and precise, low-impact placement of the items is also ensured when
jewellery packages then glide along the belts. And an ingenious detail prevents the items from going round in circles: dynamic chute configuration.
Non-stop freedom
The Interroll cross-belt sorter came up trumps even before it was commissioned, as installation occurred while business continued as usual. In-feeding of the system, which was
planned by Pierau and installed by system integrator Siemens Dematic, occurs without prior sortation via two handling lines, each carrying 4000 bags per hour. Coming from the
dispatch area, the bags and packages (weighing a maximum of 10 kg and measuring no more than 380 mm x 550 mm x 20 mm) are carried via two lines - Interroll conveyor belts
- to the sorter, where they are merged and fed in. The previously scanned barcode on the bags and packages serves as the sortation criterion.
Klingel was able to free up an unprecedented amount of room, thanks to the space-saving design of further Interroll modules: belt curves and belt conveyors.
Customer views
"We get tens of thousands of orders here every day, which means an effective sortation solution is the be-all and end-all for us. This is why the compact design of the cross-belt
sorter, belt curves and belt conveyors proved a particular convenient option for us."
Jeannine Harnisch
Project Manager / Robert Klingel GmbH & Co KG
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