SORTER TYPES — ORDER PICKING SOLUTIONS — SORTATION SYSTEMS

GBI is a systems engineering firm that designs, manufactures and installs complete Turnkey Sortation and Conveyor Solutions. Our systems include: High-Speed Tilt Tray Sorters, Cross-Belt Sorters, Bomb Bay Sorters (Carrier-Style), Hanging Garment Sorters, Paperless Pick-to-Light Systems, Software, Conveyors, and Controls. Our systems are designed to handle products ranging from small lightweight polybags to larger products weighing over 100 pounds (46 kg).

GBI's sortation systems offer a rapid return on investment due to decreased labor costs & increased accuracy when used to automate Order Fulfillment, Returns Processing, Loose Receipts, or Zip Code Sorting, and Order Picking Systems. Our sortation system are modular and may be expanded, contracted or rearranged as your growth dictates. Many options are available and as always GBI will customize the sortation system and software controls, and conveyors & controls, to best suit your application.

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Types of Sorters

Tilt Tray Sorter  — Best suited for small lightweight items to medium size products.  This Tilt Tray Sorter will equally and simultaneously sort small items, irregularly shaped packages, lightweight poly bags, as well as larger boxes.  This high-speed sortation system is available in various configurations and has the widest range of custom features and options to best suit the application. The Tilt Tray Sorter is designed to require minimal maintenance, and is built in modules to allow fast and easy expansion. Cross-Belt Sorter — GBI’s New Cross-Belt sorter incorporates many of the latest innovations together with GBI's proven programming and controls to provide a reliable, high capacity and flexible system, sorting items weighing up to 100 pounds (46 kg). GBI's Cross-Belt features contactless induction motors to drive the cars and wireless infrared communications to transmit on-the-fly instructions reducing wear and maintenance requirements.

Bomb Bay Sortation System — This Carrier-Based "Bomb Bay" Sorter is best suited for items that fit within a 13 inch x 6.75 inch x 3 inch form factor. Product drops vertically into collection chutes, mailbags, or FedEx-style boxes that are arranged in a dense dual-row pattern to provide the maximum number of sort locations for a given footprint. This is the most economical fully automated sortation system in price per sort. Look at this sortation system for sorting small packages or items such as check boxes, contacts, optical lenses and glasses, pharmacy products, photofinishing envelopes, or items within these size limits.

Pick-to-Light System — An excellent entry-level sortation system that speeds up the manual sorting process while increasing accuracy. The system uses lights to direct operators as they pick or put product. Operator training is virtually unnecessary. GBI's Pick-to-Light systems are constructed as smart modules that provide a wide range of functional capability. There are numerous software modules and, as with all our systems, GBI will customize the programming to meet your needs, including providing numerous reports and features not always available in other sortation systems.

Sorter-Lite Sorting System — Sortation Solution specifically designed for the smaller warehouse and photofinishing labs that could benefit from this technology, but either lack the space or don't have the volume to justify the return on investment for most sortation systems. This economical Bomb-Bay (Carrier Style) sortation system incorporates the best features of our "Simple Solution" full-sized sortation systems. Products for which this sortation system is ideally suited include optical products, pharmaceutical products, check boxes, seed packets and photofinishing envelopes.

Hanging Garment Sorter (GOH) — Sortation solutions specially designed  to sort hanging garments. GBI's Hanging Garment Sortation System is a modular automated sortation system, designed to provide efficient conveyance of garments on hangers at average flow rates of 7,000 pieces per hour. System features include such functions and controls as cross hanger detection, computer controls, product scanning and tracking, sorting, and order staging.

GBI offers sortation and conveyor solutions for a wide range of goods across many industries.  Call GBI today to discuss your application or just to examine the possibilities. 

GBIs sorting systems are designed to meet your material-handling sortation solutions needs for order picking systems video, distribution center automation, warehouse automation, automated distribution systems, systems integration, and conveyor & controls.

DEFINITION contributed by GBI to: www.wikiMHEDA.org 
A sorter is an automated or mechanized device which sorts the products or items according to the specified criteria. In material handling, a sorter refers to a piece of equipment that performs sortation.

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