Sustainable, high-performance BEUMER Sorter BS 7 Belt Tray system sorts wide range of products

The BEUMER Sorter BS 7 Belt Tray is a sustainable, high speed unit sorting system for a wide range of applications from apparel, to footwear to pharmaceuticals to auto parts to e-commerce and department store products. Items are inducted manually or automatically onto individual belted trays, which travel at high speed within a loop to destinations where the belt rotates to discharge product gently and precisely into packing destinations. The BEUMER BS-7 can sort from 4,000 to 40,000 units an hour at 99.99% accuracy with 100% scan track and trace.

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The BS 7 Belt Tray is ideal for both retail and e-commerce sortation as it minimizes labor touches during normal operation while enabling tens of thousands of orders per hour to be processed during peak. Positive belt discharge, more destinations per square foot, floor space, and automatic product centering after induction, dynamic sortation algorithms, andthe highest throughput speeds in the industry set the BS-7 apart for the completion. BEUMER's 30 years of experience result in a library of proven sort destinations perfected for bulk apparel, direct to carton/gaylord, footwear half-pipe chutes, even fragile chutes with brake belts. Customized to each client's particular business needs, the BEUMER BS-7 is the sorter of choice for many Fortune 500 companies.

The BEUMER BS-7 Belt Tray’s unique contactless power and data supply system eliminates the need for bus-bars and brushes. Each belt tray has its own microprocessor and eliminates the master/slave liability of most sorters. The highly engineered system comprises of 50 percent fewer individual parts, and the durable aluminum materials also minimize the requirement for spare parts. This provides the highest uptime in the industry, and reduces maintenance costs by $75k to $100k annually compared to competitive equipment.

All BEUMER sorters benefit from the PLC based BEUMER Sorter Control system (BSC) and the robust and proven BEUMER Sortation Software (BeSS). Dynamic inductions drive 99.99% sortation accuracy, dynamic chute allocation minimizes re-circulation, and user designed Dashboards enable Supervisors to manage the system and labor in real-time. The result is the world's leading cross belt unit sorter system with over 1400 BEUMER Group sorter systems installed worldwide.