Hanging Garment Processing

ITS have over 20 years experience in building overhead conveyor systems for garment distribution warehouses. ITS has built some of the largest garment systems in Europe, with installations ranging from 500,000 garments to over 3 million.

Features and benefits:

• Integrated structure for high density storage capacity.
• Telescopic booms with 12 metre extenstion to aid vehicle loading/unloading.
• Trolley carriers each fitted with a 400mm to 500mm diameter carousel allowing 15 to 30 garments to placed on them.
• Unique addressing system automatically routes trolleys to a particular destination. Each aisle or location is assigned a unique 4-digit address code. Selector switches located on the trolley carrier allow the user to set which aisle or location the trolley is sent to.

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Order Picking

The ITS overhead conveyor system is ideally suited to order picking operations.

Features and benefits:

• Trolleys can be fitted with bespoke basket, carousel or tote carrier etc.
• Implement zonal picking to reduce handling operations and manual movements. Using the ovehead conveyors power and free technology and unique addressing system, trolley carriers can be automatically transported and routed to each picking zone.
• Ability for a single user to perform large batch picking or multi-order picking operations.
• Retrofit to existing storage systems possible.
• Automatically sort and consolidate orders according to delivery route, store and/or department. Build up completed orders into despatch buffer target lanes ready for shipping.

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Roll Container Handling

Manual handling of roll containers is typically a labour intensive and time consuming activity. The ITS Twin Track conveyor system can significantly reduce operating costs and increase throughput efficiency by automating the process of transporting roll containers between operations.

Features and benefits:

• Easy loading and unloading of roll containers onto conveyor.
• Reduced labour costs - no more pushing roll containers over vast distances.
• Automatic lift with buffer to allows distibution of roll containers over multiple floors.
• Buffering and sequencing of processed roll containers ready for despatch.
• Overhead storage of roll containers, freeing up processing, intake and despatch areas.

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