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Conveyor systems (production and general purpose)
News Release from: European Conveyor Systems | Subject: Conveyor
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2007
Goods handling at national distribution
centre
European Conveyor Systems has installed a goods handling system and lifts at a national distribution centre operated by Exel for Mothercare.
A GBP550,000 goods handling system at a national distribution centre in Northamptonshire operated by Exel for Mothercare has been completed by European Conveyor Systems The NDC, which includes some 14,000 pallet racking locations and a mezzanine with a 6000m footprint, operates 24 hours a day five days a week in order to supply all Mothercare's 227 stores throughout the UK
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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ECS was appointed to design and install a conveyor system to deliver in-coming boxes to the storage and racking and also to install a number of goods lifts to move products from floor to floor.
Provision has been made for cardboard cartons and plastic tote boxes in various sizes and weights up to 25kg.
Goods-in are unloaded from delivery vehicles using eight boom conveyors in the loading bay area, some of which are linked to pivoting luffing sections that direct cartons to the lines serving the ground or first floor, as appropriate.
Four lines serve the ground floor and four the first mezzanine level.
The nominal capacity of each unloading conveyor is 500 boxes an hour, and parts of the main system include sections of accumulation conveyor to provide buffer capacity.
In addition to the conveyor system, ECS also installed four goods-only lifts capable of carrying up to four pallets at a time with a total weight of 2000kg between the ground and three mezzanine levels.
The lift cars each have a light curtain, wooden wear strips at three levels and two PIR sensors, which actuate a stop sequence if they detect movement within the car.
The lifts installed do not require a pit, so no civil engineering work was required.
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