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CONVEYORS
For
production, receiving, shipping, or order picking,
conveyor is an economical method of material handling.
The flow of material is controlled and organized. With
proper controls to maintain spacing, merge lanes,
accumulate as necessary, incline or decline to maximize
space utilization, and scan bar codes for identification
and sortation, a conveyor system will improve
productivity and throughput. Both gravity and powered
units are available to complete your system requirements
and Grafco will insure the integrity of the electrical
and mechanical installation. Whichever type is used,
permits are required by the Memphis Shelby County
Building Code. Grafco will handle all phases of the code
requirement from engineering design, to permitting, to
final code inspection.
Transportation
 The
movement of material from point to point in a
warehouse or production facility can be handled
very efficiently with powered conveyor. Whether
single cases or full pallet loads, there is a
conveyor model to suit your requirement including
live roller, belt on roller, slider bed and line
shaft. |
Accumulation
 Whenever
conveyed product needs to be scanned, weighed,
labeled or processed in some method, carton
spacing needs to be created to accommodate the
control function. To create spaces between cartons
it is also necessary to accumulate the upstream
cartons and eliminate any line pressure. This is
accomplished by using any one of several conveyor
models depending on your specific requirements.
With the advent of high-speed sortation, it is
necessary to pick ahead of the sorter and have the
orders staged for efficient, maximized throughput.
This often requires many lanes of accumulation
prior to the scanner/sorter. Without accumulation
a conveyor system is less efficient and in many
cases will not function. |
Sortation
 The
orderly flow of orders from the stock location to
the shipping dock can be enhanced with the
application of conveyor sortation. Warehouse
management systems, bar coding and effective order
picking methods have greatly improved the
capabilities of warehouse order movement. With the
inclusion of sortation, orders can be sorted by
customer, by destination, by method of shipment or
any other critical data automatically. Sortation
is completed at a much higher rate than if
manually processed and the captured data can be
uploaded to the host computer to complete
manifesting, bills of lading, shipping labels and
invoicing. |
Order
picking
 Conveyor
products greatly improve the efficiency and speed
of the order picking process. By taking the
product from the stock location on conveyor, the
order picker travels less and increases the picks
per hour rate. Orders can be batch picked or
selectively picked, zone picked and merged, from
carton flow rack, pallet flow rack, mezzanines or
floor stock. The options are numerous and there is
one to fit your specific requirement. |
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The
movement of material from point to point in a
warehouse or production facility can be handled
very efficiently with powered conveyor. Whether
single cases or full pallet loads, there is a
conveyor model to suit your requirement including
live roller, belt on roller, slider bed and line
shaft.
Whenever
conveyed product needs to be scanned, weighed,
labeled or processed in some method, carton
spacing needs to be created to accommodate the
control function. To create spaces between cartons
it is also necessary to accumulate the upstream
cartons and eliminate any line pressure. This is
accomplished by using any one of several conveyor
models depending on your specific requirements.
With the advent of high-speed sortation, it is
necessary to pick ahead of the sorter and have the
orders staged for efficient, maximized throughput.
This often requires many lanes of accumulation
prior to the scanner/sorter. Without accumulation
a conveyor system is less efficient and in many
cases will not function.
The
orderly flow of orders from the stock location to
the shipping dock can be enhanced with the
application of conveyor sortation. Warehouse
management systems, bar coding and effective order
picking methods have greatly improved the
capabilities of warehouse order movement. With the
inclusion of sortation, orders can be sorted by
customer, by destination, by method of shipment or
any other critical data automatically. Sortation
is completed at a much higher rate than if
manually processed and the captured data can be
uploaded to the host computer to complete
manifesting, bills of lading, shipping labels and
invoicing.
Conveyor
products greatly improve the efficiency and speed
of the order picking process. By taking the
product from the stock location on conveyor, the
order picker travels less and increases the picks
per hour rate. Orders can be batch picked or
selectively picked, zone picked and merged, from
carton flow rack, pallet flow rack, mezzanines or
floor stock. The options are numerous and there is
one to fit your specific requirement.