Case Study: Pitney Bowes
System Summary
Pitney Bowes is multi-billion dollar global company serving primarily government agencies. Pitney Bowes has world-class process expertise helps customers reduce mail and document costs, manage staff and workloads, predict statement delivery, and enhance operational security.
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Business Challenge
- Complete project quickly so there is no delay in the delivery of mail
- The weights of standard postal trays range from nearly empty to 75 lbs. The challenge is reading a label in a sleeve at 550 feet/minute and the shifting of mail inside the tray
- The goal is to sort trays at a rate of 135 pieces per minute to 235 zip code ranges
- The system needed to be able to sort nearly 150,000 mail trays or approximately 300 trucks 24 hours
- Maximize the space in relatively small 160,000 sq. ft. building
Key Technologies
- Intelligrated Soft Touch One-Way Shoe Sorter
- Accusort AV400 Camera Scanner paired with an Axiom line Scanner
- 8 Induction Lanes accumulating at the Saw-Tooth Merge
- Zero pressure Accumulation Conveyor
- Anchor Enterprises Mezzanine
- OCS Technologies Scales
- Intelligrated Controls
- Two pass sortation methodology to hit all 235 zip codes.
Results
The goal of this system was to exceed the sort tray rate of 135 pieces per minute. The actual peak rates were 200 pieces per minute. Installation and successful testing was completed 2 weeks earlier than anticipated. Bastian was able to complete the installation safely and efficiently, without disrupting the 24/7 processing of mail.
