Automated Packaging Line Solution
Axiom designs, manufactures and installs automated packaging lines that move orders through packing at speed, cut manual handling and bring every step into one controlled flow.
Pack More Orders Without Hiring More Staff
An automated packaging line moves your orders through packing without the manual graft. Conveyors carry each item along while scanners read it, software directs it and print-and-apply labelling, bagging or carton equipment does the packing. The result is simple, you pack fewer orders by hand, you push more through in less time, and you get items moving towards dispatch faster.
We design, manufacture and install automated packaging lines right here in the UK. Every line is built around your products, your order profile, your packaging type, your warehouse layout and the systems you already run.
Key Features:
- WCS system allows full integration to the customer WMS for order information handling & reporting for customer tracking
- In-line quality control and process confirmations available as options:
- Order Weigh Check – Compares actual pre-package weigh check compared to provided data. Confirmation of high-value items (mobile & home tech)
- Image Saving – Takes image of order prior to packaging cell, acts as shipping confirmation
- Print & Apply labels directly after packaging completion
- Labels read after printing to confirm information & final check against order data for the package
- Post packaging sort options to further increase dispatch automation
Our Solution Includes:
- Automated scanning of items
- Matching each order with the correct marketing literature
- On-demand advice note printing
- Merging products with the correct paperwork
- Automated bagging in heavy-duty poly mailing bags
- Automatic labelling and sealing
- Final scanning to catch discrepancies
- Diverting problem orders to inspection
- Dropping cleared orders into dispatch cages
Reduce Operating Costs
Core Components
No two lines look the same, so we build around what your orders needs through our bespoke process. Depending on your products and setup, an automated packaging line can include:
- Conveyor systems to move products, cartons, totes or bags through the line
- Barcode scanning to identify each order
- Software control and routing logic to direct everything
- Advice note printing on demand
- Insert handling where required
- Automatic labelling
• Bagging or carton handling equipment where suitable - Check weighing or final scanning to confirm order accuracy
- Reject or inspection routes for orders that need a closer look
- Dispatch cage, carton, pallet or carrier routing where suitable
We mix and match these to suit your operation. You get what you need, not what you don’t.
Sliding Shoe Sorter:
This is probably the most versatile and gentle high-speed sorter design on the market, Capable of sorting bags, small jiffy pacakges through to large boxes all off one design and from feeds containing random size and type distributions.
Swivel Wheel Sorter (SWS):
Pop-up Wheel Sorter (PUR):
Case Study
JD Williams
We designed, manufactured and installed a fully automated packing line for JD Williams, the UK’s largest independent home shopping retailer, at its Lilac & Briar Mill facility in Shaw, Lancashire. The line lifted single-item order throughput by 20 percent over the old manual operation. Read the full case study.
- A twin-level conveyor system carrying items and paperwork separately
- Barcode scanning to identify each order
- Marketing literature dispensed from one of five dispensers where required
- Advice notes printed on demand and merged with the correct order
- An automated bagging machine that bags, labels and seals each order
- A final scan, with discrepancies diverted to an inspection area
- Dispatch cage routing ready for carrier allocation
- All packaging systems are Axiom's own designs
- We can advise on which type of system is best for you
- 1500 products per hour capacity
- Part of a complete materials handling solution or stand-alone
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Faster Packing for Ecommerce, Retail and 3PL Warehouses
This solution is for warehouses where dispatch volume is the daily pressure. Ecommerce warehouses, retail distribution centres, 3PL fulfilment operations, postal and parcel operations and any high-volume dispatch environment will recognise the daily challenges.
You know the pinch points. Manual packing creates bottlenecks, single-item orders eat up labour and orders pile up just before they reach dispatch. Wrong paperwork or labels slip through, volumes keep climbing and the whole process buckles when peak season hits.
An automated packaging line pulls all of that into one controlled flow. Items, paperwork, labelling and dispatch routing move together along a single line. You swap scattered manual steps for one system you can rely on.
Why Choose Axiom
British design & manufacture: The vast majority of equipment is built and assembled in the UK, keeping lead times short and aftercare close.
In-house engineering: Mechanical design, controls and software all handled by Axiom, so conveyor, WMS and picking work as one solution.
Long-term support: Annual maintenance contracts keep the equipment serviced and your engineers trained on the system.
Built around your operation: Configured around your zones, carton sizes, host system and growth plans.
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How much can an automated packaging line increase throughput?
Throughput gains depend on your products and order profile, so figures vary. On its single-item line at JD Williams, Axiom lifted throughput by 20 percent over the old manual operation. That line moved from around 200 items per person per hour to a consistent 1,200 items per hour.
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Will the line fit my existing warehouse and systems?
We design every automated packaging line around your warehouse layout, your packaging type and the systems you already run. The JD Williams line interfaced with the customer's process from picking through to carrier allocation. Your line is built to slot into how you already work.
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What support do I get after installation?
Support carries on well past the completed build. We can connect to your line remotely, see it running on site by camera and resolve most issues over the phone with your engineers. If a problem needs hands on it, we come to site and fix it fast.
Axiom’s pick & pack order systems in operation
Lynas
“The Axiom solution technically appealed to us as the best because of its simplicity and scalability. Fundamentally its key benefits are firstly the speed that we can re-sort products in relation to what it would take a manual team to do it and secondly the accuracy of the sortation.”
Alastair Magee
Finance & IT Director of Lynas Food Service
Key Benefits
- Capable of sorting up to 20,000 products in a single shift
- Handles any shape of product up to 500mm long
- Very accurate sortation driven by barcodes
- Swivel wheel sorters divert product to one of 11 sorter lanes
Axiom’s pick & pack order systems in operation
Lynas
“The Axiom solution technically appealed to us as the best because of its simplicity and scalability. Fundamentally its key benefits are firstly the speed that we can re-sort products in relation to what it would take a manual team to do it and secondly the accuracy of the sortation.”
Alastair Magee
Finance & IT Director of Lynas Food Service
Key Benefits
- Capable of sorting up to 20,000 products in a single shift
- Handles any shape of product up to 500mm long
- Very accurate sortation driven by barcodes
- Swivel wheel sorters divert product to one of 11 sorter lanes
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