Tilt Tray Sorter | High-Speed Sorting

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The GBI High-Speed Sorting, Tilt Tray Sorter is a high accuracy, high speed sortation system that provides the user with the flexibility of sorting. The Light Capacity Mechanism will handle most small items or small products that vary in size, shape, and packaging. This Tilt Tray Sorter will equally and simultaneously sort small items and packages, including lightweight poly bags, as well as items weighing up to 25 lbs. with the medium tray mechanism.

The Tilt Tray Sorter is excellent for fast sorting of a wide variety of products, such as;
flat garments, CD's, DVD's, cassettes and video tapes, jewelry, sunglasses, books, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and small packages. 

The GBI Tilt Tray Sorter  with automatic induction, operates at 3,600 per induction station to 12,000 sorts per hour and up depending on specific configuration. The Tilt Tray Sorter is designed to require minimal maintenance, and is built in modules to allow fast and easy expansion.

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Tilt Tray Mechanisms

Tilt tray mechanisms can be adapted at time of manufacture to the maximum weight and size of the product expected to be sorted. Drop guides and chutes may also be provided to enhance sorter accuracy and allow for accumulation before removal.

The light capacity tray mechanisms can sustain weights up to 5 lbs. and are used primarily for small items such as jewelry, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics,  check boxes, small parcels, in packaging such as jiffy bags, polybags, vacuum formed clam shells, and/or boxes.

The medium capacity tray mechanism can sustain weights up to 25 lbs. and are used primarily for larger packages, books, mail order catalogue items, flat garments, clothing, groceries, parcels, etc. The following sections describe the benefits each tray type has to offer and for which case they are best suited.

SPLIT-TRAY CARRIER - used to increase sort rate GBI's Split-Tray carrier design incorporates two independent trays on the same carrier. This allows each side tray to tip independently of the adjacent tray traveling on the same carrier. When using the Split-Tray on GBI’s High-Speed Tilt Tray Sorter, the normal carrier rate of 12,000 trays per hour now becomes 24,000 trays per hours since two trays per carrier are loaded with product and sorted simultaneously.

THE TILT TRAY AUTOMATED SORTER WILL:

• Automatically and reliably sort individually packaged and bar coded products to designated drops.
• Simultaneously sort mixed shapes of small boxes and light articles enclosed in poly bags.
• Requires only two to three employees to induce product at a guaranteed rate of 6,000 trays per hour or faster using auto-induction.
• Greatly reduce the time needed to assemble individual product by order or other criteria.
• Record all product that has gone through the sorter.
• Greatly reduce labor costs associated with manual sortation and verification (see option below).
• Expand the sort window.
• Recover more warehouse space.
• Dynamically communicate with your existing software (see option below) to:
  -  generate packing slips
  -  flag completed orders
  -  update customer service information files
  -  track product
  -  and so on

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Common Features

• Fast sort rates up to 12,000 trays per hour or 24,000 trays per hour with new split-tray carrier
• High Accuracy Rates
• Modular construction
• Ease of use
• Low Maintenance
• Long Live and reliable operation
• User friendly Windows software interface
• Sorts barcoded or non-barcoded products
• Cross Platform integration support
• External data access with off the shelf programs

The Tilt Tray Sorter provides a viable alternative to pick-to-light systems. For a comparable investment to pick-to-light systems the Tilt Tray Sorter will provide:

• Faster more efficient sortation
• Increased reliability over manual sortation
• Increased storage capacity for the Distribution Center
• Affordable pricing for small to medium sized businesses
• Modular growth capability to expand with your customer's needs

Additional benefits of a Tilt Tray Sorter:

• This sorter is comprised of few moving parts, reducing the risk of repair downtime.
• The sorter is modular and can be extended as your needs expand.
• Sorter requires little maintenance.
• Most repairs can be implemented when necessary in less than 30 minutes.
• Independent section design permits the sorter to continue operating even when a section is offline.

Sorter Options

There are numerous add on options to enhance the sort or add more functionality to the sorters depending on the industries. These are just a few.

1. Weigh In Motion
2. Customer data collection
3. Manifesting
4. Automatic stacking
5. Order /Cube /Quantity/ Value Limit notification
6. Integration with Warehouse Management System or host system both with data transfer and controls.
7. Auto-loading units
8. Various styles of status displays

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New peripheral devices include:

• Collection Stacking Chutes for uniform products such as: CD's, DVD's, Video Tapes, Cassettes, and anything of uniform shape
• Auto Induction Units for uniform (same shaped) products.
• Auto Loading Mechanisms for other shaped product.
• 40-Key Keyboard for manual induction.

Available control functions:

• More streamlined TCP/IP Networking with FTP File Transfers to and from the host system including Unix and AS400 Hosts
• Command Port Functions using sockets on our Sorter Computers to receive commands from the WMS to interactively control the sorter through the WMS.
• Data Capture Terminals with auto induction to receive returns or receipts data on returns or receipts processing sorters
• Pick Display Modules may be used as multifunctional display, to show sort progress by chute, and to track the product when changing out totes.

Definition contributed by GBI to www.wikiMHEDA.org
A tilt-tray sorter is a high-speed, continuous-loop sortation conveyor that uses a technique of tilting a tray at a chute to slide the object into the chute. It is used to expedite the process of Order fulfillment to consolidate line items of an order, and to process returned products for immediate updating of inventory in real time.

Summary of GBI : Sorter Types, 

Some examples of other sorter types:

• Bomb Bay Sorter
• Cross Belt Sorter
• Pick-to-Light
• Hanging Garment Sorter

Applications and processes that are greatly improved through automation using GBI's Sortation Systems:

• Loose Receipts Application
• Order Fulfillment Application
• Returns Application
• Zip Code Application

GBIs Sorting Systems are designed to meet your material handling sortation needs for warehouse automation, factory automation, and distribution center automation.

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