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When a number of young men began to scratch their heads in Renaissance Florence about what we today commonly refer to as rationalisation, they never suspected that some day in the future a package distribution plant would exist at German Parcel in Neuenstein, Hesse, that can handle up to 50.000 parcels per hour during peak operation. Even Leonardo would have been enthusiastic about this system by BUDDE Fördertechnik GmbH...
Optimising logistical processes
More than ever, businesses are nowadays challenged to optimise their internal logistical processes. And compared to other spheres of economical operation, logistics still hold a considerable rationalisation potential.
The sorting of packages in particular occupies an important position in terms material handling technology.
With more than 350 package distribution plants in the last 36 months - amongst others for DPD, German Parcel, Deutsche Post AG, TNT and Bertelsmann - BUDDE Fördertechnik GmbH in Bielefeld has become one of the most important players on the German market.
Having operated for more than 40 years as an international consulting and engineering firm, Budde today besides sorting systems, manual and automatic conveyor systems also offers its clients commissioning (order picking) systems and controls.
For German Parcel Paketlogistik GmbH, BUDDE Fördertechnik developed and installed semi-automatic parcel distribution systems in Neuenstein and Bielefeld.
At an hourly output of 50.000 parcels, 380.000 parcels a day are currently handled in Neuenstein and distributed to 66 national and 20 international depots.
At this central handling point alone, more than 100.000 rollers of different series ensure problem-free transportation.
In Bielefeld, the plant operates with automatic path routers and automatic package weighing dispatching. Each of the eight telescopic belt conveyor entry points transports the packages individually onto the weighing stations, where the packages are weighed in a continuous process and have a label attached. Further distribution is carried out by means of four path routers. During this process, the label read by stationary scanners is translated through electronic data processing into target signals that directly control the distributing tables.
Budde technology is, however, not only active within Germany. 80.000 packages daily are distributed from the central depot of the EXAPAQ S.A. in Paris to a total of 44 sub-depots.
All 44 sub-depots were conceptualised and installed by Budde during a construction period of only 4 months.
Leonardo would, however, have been most amazed of all that daily 60.000 books are prepared for distribution at Bertelsmann Distribution in Gütersloh by means of a Budde commissioning system.
To someone for whom every book was still a precious individual item, this would have been a vision of paradise.