New Conveyors Boost E-Commerce up to 650% by Multi-Conveyor

Описание: Multi-Conveyor recently installed a masterful new conveyor system for a globally operated mail-order footwear giant, Weyco Group (NASDAQ: WEYS), headquartered in Glendale, WI. The goal? Crushing cyber week.

The 1.2 million square foot facility moves individual “pairs” of six major shoe brands over 13.5 miles of overall conveyance, from pick to ship. Multi-Conveyor was the first OEM supplier to install automated conveyor systems within their production floor that incline; overhead transport; decline; 180° curve; accumulate; justify; divert and reject.

George Sotiros, Chief Information Officer; VP of Distribution and VP of Information Systems explains the challenge, “Last year, prior to this cyber weekend, we would have to work overtime for a week and a half around cyber weekend. We’d have to work Saturday 10 hours, Sunday 10 hours, and we’d still be behind. This year with this process, doing this speed, our volume, of course, keeps growing for e-comm, especially over cyber weekend, and we were able to work about an 8 hour Saturday and get everything completely done. So not only did it save us a lot of labor and headaches and things like that, but from the customer service point of it, of getting those pairs out on a timely basis, has been a home run. And that’s what we were hoping for.”

The initial conveyor accepts manually loaded, filled and sealed assorted size shoe boxes (aka “pairs”), placed narrow or wide edge leading by dimension. The single lane product initially conveys on straight running plastic belting, scaling along the building wall, then overhead inclines on friction top belting, opening up headroom for production floor work space below.

The pairs take a controlled 30’ decline before entering a 180° curve around the wall opening using side flexing chain to stabilize the pairs during the turning process. Pairs then end transfer through another series of sensor-monitored product to maximum accumulation capacity.

Multi-Conveyor’s design engineers built-in an intermediate section of ARB (activated roller belt) to left-justify and gap the pairs with complete accuracy and positioning, precisely timed to feed a new shrink wrapper.

The newly wrapped single lane product discharges at a rate of 40 pairs per minute onto an ARB conveyor with 1:2 divert capability. This system will, again, left-justify and feed two separate lanes of 20 pairs/minute labelers ahead as controlled by the line operators.

As Paul Slotty, Senior Distribution Manager states, “We control lines A or B as needed – diverting to just one running line, for instance, when loading the labeler or a variety other reasons upstream.”

Multi-Conveyor’s electrical engineering team stepped up and took the only onsite upfront technical support reins on calibrating the sensors, timing, controls and communications between OEM equipment.

Jason Russ, Director of Information Systems, elaborates further in the video. Mr. Slotty was also quick to point out the strategic placement of various belting integrated throughout the system.

Friction top belting was replaced in the labeler section, giving the pairs additional grip needed for the label application, creating way for an additional discount label application to take place that was previously applied manually.

Post-labelers, pneumatic actuated reject devices work in tandem with the customers intricate PLC label verification scanning system.

By installing a new conveyor system, shrink wrapper and labelers, the company increased output from 6 pairs/minute to 40 pairs/minute, a 556% increase in output. However, the conveyors were spec’d up to 45 pairs/minute, building in a total 650% eligible increase in future growth.

George sums up the experience, “We had never used plastic conveyor before so it was intriguing and nerve racking, but we’re really happy how things turned out. It rides so nice. We’ve had zero downtime with regard to the conveyors, motors and everything. Just from a serviceability standpoint it’s been fantastic. It’s been a really good partnership (with Multi-Conveyor) that we want to continue over the next, many years.”

Learn more about Multi-Conveyor by visiting our website at https://www-multi-conveyor.com. Then, call us at 1-800-236-7960. Remember, Multi-Conveyor … your best, conveyed better.

Multi-Conveyor would like to thank Weyco Group’s:
George Sotiros, Chief Information Officer, VP of Information Systems, VP of Distribution
Paul Slotty, Senior Distribution Manager
John Arena, Senior Distribution Manager
Kevin Kauphusman, Senior Distribution Manager
Jason Russ, Director of Information Systems
for their time and hospitality in the making of this video production.
For more information on Weyco Group, please visit: https://www.weycogroup.com

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