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Why Purchase a Spare Parts Package Axiom GB always recommends a project spare parts package is purchased on installation of the cell. This along with a service contract helps keep the material handling solution operating at the intended performance level. The recommended spare parts package will assist in keeping the materials handling solution running with […]
100-Days Most consumers will be cowering with dread, we are now less than 100-days until Santa Claus visits, yes Christmas Day. Kids big and small will be looking at the latest toys and gadgets and sending off their letters promising they have been good over the last year. Not just Christmas Day, as this is […]
How to buffer How to buffer in a materials handling solution can be critical in the operation. Most conveyor systems will require elements of accumulation or buffering to allow different elements within the line to stop and start; operator interaction or other operations to take place without hindering the overall line efficiency or OEE. The […]
During the recently completed installation in the USA, our customer required an easy to understand custom display screen showing the status of the Axiom ASS-075 Sliding Shoe Sorter courier diverts. On talking through the information to be displayed, the customer wanted: – Which chutes or diverts were in operation. – The bin reference recorded from […]
Axiom have produced Pick & Pack cells for many high profile customers. The purpose of this materials handling automation is to associate picked product with customer order data, any collateral and the despatch note and produce a labelled package ready for shipment without multiple operator contact points. Increases in throughput over a manual operation of […]
Cross-docking material handling systems reduce labour and storage requirements, and hence a reduction in distribution costs, where bulk sorting of product is required. Cross-docking order fulfilment is applicable to wholesalers, courier companies, and other transfer points for products and packages such as 3pl’s, where pallets or bins of a product are presented and need to […]
Axiom GB has completed the commissioning of phase 1 of the cross-docking cell equipped with a SICK DWS in Chicago. The Axiom GB cross-docking with DWS has been designed to handle 6000 packages per hour across a wide range of types and sizes. The DWS (dimension; weigh & scan) cell from SICK (UK) Ltd enables […]
Axiom GB Ltd is proud to design, build & install a majority of the equipment supplied in its material handling solutions provided to the fulfilment, warehouse and ecommerce markets. Modern premises and continued investment allows more efficient and flexible manufacture of our products, with the latest new investment starting to arrive in the factory to […]
Axiom GB Ltd has designed & built a pair of high-capacity bespoke lifters as part of the project with our customer Hemsec Manufacturing Ltd. Hemsec manufacture Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) for the construction industry. Each panel is formed in a jig, with the outer panel skins sandwiching a polyurethane insulation middle section. The skins can […]
Completing a contract worth over £1.5m, Axiom GB has automated World of Books’ ecommerce fulfilment centre in Coventry. Capable of processing up to 200,000 items a day, Axiom’s innovative installation includes belt and zero line pressure conveyors, sortation through a series of 10 multi-directional Swivel Wheel Sorters (SWS) to divert items to one of the […]
Axiom GB has strengthened its senior management team with the appointment of Julian Tarratt as Sales Engineer. Julian brings with him extensive sales experience and in his new role, he will be spearheading Axiom’s drive for controlled growth in the materials handling market. A British company, Axiom GB has its headquarters and manufacturing facility in […]
Automation specialist Axiom GB, the only UK company to manufacture sliding shoe sortation systems, has launched the powerful MSS Sliding Shoe Sorter. Designed and built using the latest technology at the company’s Tamworth headquarters, the Axiom MSS Sliding Shoe Sorter can reliably handle high speed sorting of more than 10,000 diverse items per hour. The […]