Order Picking/Processing

The process of finding and extracting products from a warehouse to fulfill customer orders involves a significant investment of time and manpower that can greatly affect customer satisfaction levels. Choosing an automated order picking system depends on a number of requirements, including cost, complexity, the volume of customer orders and item sizes. Every company has unique requirements, and we offer a full range of different order picking and processing solutions to suit your individual needs.

When you come to Siggins, you’ll have access to a complete line of automated order processing solutions that streamline sortation picking in your warehouse. We’ve served as leaders in the material handling industry since 1946, making us the experts you can trust for your warehousing equipment and service needs.

Our Warehouse Sorting Systems:

At Siggins, we offer a comprehensive selection of automated order processing solutions. Automating picking and sorting can help increase efficiency and minimize operating costs within your warehouse. Our range of order picking and processing solutions includes the following systems.

Pick Modules

Order picking is a critical operation of all distribution centers, and there are various ways to accomplish it. Picking documentation can be transmitted to the picker by paper, RF, Pick to Light and Voice.

High-speed pick modules consolidate top-selling, high-velocity products into a single area. These warehouse sorting systems pick multiple items at once using a central conveyor to complete orders on either side of the aisle, transferring products to their designated areas.

In-Motion Weighing

A checkweigher is an automatic machine for checking the weight of packaged commodities. It is normally found at the off-going end of a production process and is used to ensure that the weight of a pack of the commodity is within specified limits.

Checkweighers assess various package attributes, using metal detection and X-ray technologies to determine total case weight, verify that packages meet weight requirements or detect missing items in an order. Then, the controlling computer prints a bar-coded shipping label containing key dimension and shipping details.

Automatic Labeling

In order to increase line speed, products can be automatically labeled. Automatic labeling systems are extremely beneficial in the shipping and manifesting process as well as other places in the warehouse. The type of labeling system required depends on the operating environment and other factors.

Types of bar codes our automated sortation solutions can produce include spray-on, pre-printed and unique bar codes, depending on your individualized needs.

Scanning

A bar code reader (or bar code scanner) is an electronic device for reading printed bar codes. It consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. Additionally, nearly all bar code readers contain decoder circuitry analyzing the bar code’s image data provided by the sensor and sending the bar code’s content to the scanner’s output port.

We offer three types of bar code readers to facilitate sortation in your warehouse, including laser scanners, camera-based readers and omnidirectional scanners.

Voice Directed Picking

Voice-directed warehousing (also known as voice-directed picking) utilizes voice synthesis and speech recognition software to aid in fulfillment processes for warehouses and distribution centers. Developed in the late 1990s, voice direction usage has increased rapidly over the following years due to major technological advances and gradually decreasing hardware and software costs.

Through voice direction technologies, workers wear a headset or earpiece and a wearable computer that delivers audible picking instructions to the wearer. Once the worker finishes a task, they deliver a pre-defined voice command and code to confirm its completion.

Light Directed Picking/ Pick to Light

Pick to Light, or light directed picking, is well regarded as the fastest operator-based picking system and one of the best broken case processing solutions available. It is ideal for broken case picking or zone picking, and has been shown to improve productivity as well as accuracy while lowering the amount of time spent walking and correcting errors.

Our Pick to Light systems include a user-friendly graphic interface that offers improved process and data visibility. You can use the software tools to provide real-time responses to this information to ensure picking accuracy and efficiency.

Robotic Small Item Sorting

OPEX Sure Sort™ is a highly scalable, configurable and cost-effective small item sorting system. Designed and manufactured by OPEX® Corporation, Sure Sort is a robotic item sorter that easily handles complex variables and delivers a wide variety of parcels and single items to their final location in a single pass. Sure Sort’s compact array of sort locations can be scaled, sized and customized as well.

Sure Sort induction operators receive replenishment and wave- or batch-picked orders at ergonomic workstations, where items are placed and scanned on a conveyor. Then, an iBOT transfers the products to their designated order bins on either side of the storage aisle.

Robotic Order Picking

Our high-density robotic order picking system, Perfect Pick® HD, offers double the storage without sacrificing storage capacity throughput. This warehouse sorting system gives companies greater item slotting flexibility across their warehouses.

Unique in the industry, Perfect Pick HD’s Connect & Collect™ feature makes access to inventory simple and quick. As a double-ended system, Perfect Pick HD can vastly improve pick rates with an operator filling orders from each pick station.

Autonomous Mobile Robot

Our autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) are material-handling machines that transport totes and shelf units for picking. The robot travels through the warehouse and avoids obstacles using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology and transports the tote or shelf unit to the operator, who completes the picking task.

Our AMRs boost worker productivity by eliminating or reducing traveling time, and they increase picking accuracy. This solution is designed for warehouses and can also be used for replenishment, order sorting and inventory counting tasks.

Benefits of Sortation in Warehouses

When you implement automated order processing systems into your warehouse, you can experience all the advantages of sortation, including:

Increased efficiency: Automated sorting systems process thousands of items per hour, making them significantly more efficient than manual sortation. With faster sorting comes the ability to take on more contracts and loads, resulting in more revenue.
Optimal accuracy: Warehouse sortation solutions improve sorting accuracy by minimizing human errors.
Greater versatility: You can use sorting automation to seamlessly handle products of all sizes.
Reduced labor costs: Due to their automation capabilities, sorting systems reduce the need for manual labor, minimizing your company’s labor costs.
Improved safety: Automated sortation solutions prevent workers from performing dangerous manual tasks, resulting in fewer accidents and increased workplace safety.

Streamline Your Operations With Automated Order Processing Systems From Siggins

If you’re looking to optimize sortation in your warehouse, consider automated sorting systems from Siggins. No matter the need, Siggins is standing by to provide support, problem-solving and the tools needed to keep your company’s productivity moving as smooth as possible. We’re dedicated to helping our customers achieve the greatest value from their material handling solutions by enabling long-term growth and a high return on investment (ROI).

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Order Picking/Processing