Product & Document Fulfillment Solution (PDFS)† | The Perfect Material Handling Solution

Do you need to hire more people to speed up your packaging process?

Today’s manufacturers and product distributors are faced with slim profit margins and operating budgets. Increasing labor to boost throughput often undercuts the overall profitability of your operation.

Improving packaging line efficiencies by integrating material handling automation or automated packaging solutions means that you will meet your customer’s demands today … not tomorrow.

Speed up your packaging process by completely automating the packaging and distribution of your single or multi item customer orders using the PDFS system.

This fully automated system can add customer specific catalogs and personalized order information, print and apply a shipping label and convey the packaged product directly to the shipping department all at a rate of up to 1,500 orders per hour.

IN MOST CASES ONLY REQUIRES ONE OPERATOR

The PDFS system is designed so that depending on the volume being processed only one or two operators are required during a shift. Therefore, labor can be reassigned to more productive areas such as quality control and customer service.

How to Automate Your Material Handling

PDFS begins by scanning the barcode of the product to identify the required set of literature and invoice for that particular order. The IN-Feeder then inserts specific marketing items such as brochures, catalogs and CDs, based on the user preferences identified from the barcode scan.

Simultaneously, the Print-Feeder prints high quality, personalized documents such as invoices or packing slips.

To make the process more accurate, the barcodes on the product and documents are scanned again and verified before they are merged. This double scanning procedure where barcodes are matched on the product and invoice eliminates possible error. This information is also used to generate a shipping label at the bagging station.

Lastly, the merged product with its appropriate literature is bagged or boxed, with a shipping labelprinted and applied at the same station. The order can be sorted by courier method and conveyed directly to the shipping department

Capabilities

• Cycle time - Up to 1,500 orders per hour (based on 15”length)
• Variable product size handling
• Flexible to fit as many document/catalogue feeders as required
• Automated sorting of ‘ready-to-ship’ packages based on shipping method
• 100% order verification via barcode scanning

Benefits

• Increases throughput and improves efficiency
• Reduces labor costs
• Eliminates human error with barcode verification

Technical Information

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PSI Product Integration

• Print Feeder
• Friction Feeders
• Autoslip - Packing Slip Inserter
• Auto-Bagging Systems
• Automatic Label Applicators

Contact PSI Engineering to Learn More about this Solution

†U.S. Patent Protected

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