As PFSweb operates with more than 2.5 million square feet of world-class distribution infrastructure, it needs to possess flexibility to flex and adjust its material handling and logistics solutions, while ensuring optimal performance for its clients. The company incorporates some of the most flexible and efficient material handling equipment available to DC managers.

One such material handling equipment which the company prides itself on, is the variable-speed modular conveyor system from Dematic Corp, the world’s leading supplier of logistics automation solutions, systems and service.

This conveyor system can convey toys of widely divergent weights and sizes on the same conveyor, ideal for the DC’s product line. The major advantage provided by this system is flexibility and modularity as the modular conveyor units can be unbolted from the floor and moved to fit a new process, if PFSweb needs changes.In the past, when we put a big conveyor system in, it was hard to change it or modify it for our changing business needs,” says the company adding, “This system was engineered to be extremely modular.”

The system is different from traditional conveyors as each conveyor section has its own control logic and internal wiring. These controls give the individual sections of the conveyor the ability to speed up or slow down. The Dematic variable-speed modular conveyor system also maintains user-selectable gapping between conveyable items. Without changing hardware, PSFweb operators can select a desired gap for maximum buffer, for sorting, or for proper pitch prior to an in-line scale. Operators can also select the speed from 70 feet-per-minute up to 400 feet-per-minute.

It also has the functionality to automatically turn itself off when it is not needed. Compared to conventional conveyor systems, it reduces power consumption up to 30 percent.

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