Increase Throughput and Efficiency with an Automated Sorter

Faster, more accurate and reliable order processing

Sorters are one of the most versatile systems to improve process speed and efficiency in a warehouse or distribution centre. You want the best possible solution to match your specific sortation requirements, that’s why at Axiom we have developed a range of sorters designed to work across a wide variety of product profiles.

Tailored sorters engineering excellence

Our range of sortation systems positions us as one of the world’s leading, truly independent, system integrators. You can choose from our own off-the-shelf engineered equipment or third party products to create turnkey solutions.

From design through to implementation, we consistently maintain the highest level of engineering excellence. As a result, our attention to detail regarding ergonomics, maintenance, replacement parts, fault-finding and aesthetics is second to none.

Free Sortation Assessment

If you’d like to know more about how an Axiom sorter can improve the productivity of your facility please complete the ‘Free Sortation Assessment’ form above. We will respond with a bespoke proposal that outlines how an automated sorter will transform your order processing operation.

Sortation Models

Take a look at Axiom’s sortation systems in action

Lynas

Axiom has manufactured and installed an automated sortation system in Lynas Foodservice Group’s new distribution hub in Lusk, County Dublin. This innovative system is capable of sorting 45 diverse food products a minute to 11 destination lanes enabling the Lusk facility to process up to 20,000 products in a single shift.

There is a substantial range of different food items to be processed including tins, sacks, packs of drinks and even tubs of ice cream. The Axiom sorter can handle any shape of product up to 500mm long and for those items that are non-conveyable, trays are used.

“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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World of Books

The throughput and reliability of the automated system Axiom proposed meant that we would outstrip all our current KPIs and deliver a huge performance benefit for World of Books.

“The throughput and reliability of the automated system Axiom proposed meant that we would outstrip all our current KPIs and deliver a huge performance benefit for World of Books.”

Martin Fisher – Operations Manager at World of Books

Key Benefits
- System capable of processing up to 200,000 items a day
- Belt and zero line pressure conveyors inducts capable of diverting 5000 books/hr to 3 destinations
- Sorter with 10 multi-directional Swivel Wheel Sorters diverting items to 21 outfeed stations
- 12 destination single sided Swivel Wheel Sorter with 90° chutes for manual processing
- High speed tote lift
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Superdrug

Axiom GB designed and manufactured a ten destination PR (pop-up roller) sorter for Superdrug’s Northern Distribution Centre at Pontefract, home to the company’s e-commerce operation. It was installed as part of an integrated solution from independent integrator Logistex.

The sorter has the capacity to process 6,000 orders weighing up to 15kgs an hour, an eightfold increase in throughput for Superdrug.

“The Axiom sorter is simple to use and gives good reliable performance. One of the major benefits of the new system is that we can sort orders by delivery option. This has enabled us to extend our delivery time to the customer.

“Instead of ordering online by 2pm for a next day delivery, our customers can now order by 5pm and still receive their products the next day; we have a much more efficient operation.”

Peter Appleyard, Superdrug’s E-commerce General Manager

Key Benefits
- Sorts 6,000 packets an hour
- Eightfold increase in throughput
- Handles packets or parcels up to 15kgs
- Orders sorted by delivery option
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Previously when the sortation was carried out manually we could process a maximum of 6,000 packets in a day, with the new automated system we are able to hit 2,000 packets an hour.

Simon Butteriss, Assistant Director – Group Operations, Cambridge Assessment

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