In the modern warehouse, efficient processing of customer orders for quick turnaround is always a must for customer-centric companies.

With the recent advent of eCommerce, this has become even more important for companies looking to capture market share. Product suppliers experience a huge volume of orders on a daily basis, which always requires some form of automated order processing and fulfillment.

This often involves the use of conveyor systems to assist order processors in picking, packing, processing, and shipping operations.
 

What is a Warehouse Conveyor System?

A warehouse conveyor system is a device that transports items throughout a facility and to another warehouse. Conveyor systems can be manually operated, gravity-powered, or motorized. Conveyors can also help improve warehouse operations by streamlining transportation processes and minimizing human errors.

Warehouse conveyor systems are one of the solutions that can help warehouses operate on time and reduce accidents. This is because they can speed up the movement of items in a warehouse and minimize the risk of handling heavy units. With the help of conveyor systems, a storage facility can operate more smoothly and increase its profitability.
 

Types of Conveyors Commonly Used in Warehouses

Warehouse conveyors have been an essential component in maximizing efficiency in modern material handling systems. As technology continues to advance, with the use of important tools such as automation and robotics, the need for versatile conveyors is becoming increasingly important.

The main types of warehouse conveyors used today are powered, belt or roller systems, or unpowered conveyors. Here are some common types of conveyors used in warehouses:
 

- Powered Warehouse Conveyors

Powered warehouse conveyors are the most common system used to handle small to medium sized packages. They can be a belt-driven system or a roller system. The size and application of your product will also help determine the type of conveyor that is best suited.

Typically, a belt-driven warehouse conveyor will be the most beneficial for your operation if you need something with a stable surface that is flexible enough to handle different products. Belt-driven warehouse conveyors can also run on an incline to move products to different levels of the warehouse.

On the other hand, powered roller conveyors are useful when you want to accumulate products for storage over a period of time, which can then be fed into sorters or other organizational systems such as pallets. This is why you see them used extensively in many modern warehouse facilities, because it gives you some control over prioritizing the movement of products.
 

- Unpowered Warehouse Conveyors

Gravity roller conveyors do not use power to move products, instead relying on the laws of physics to keep things moving. You may often see unpowered warehouse conveyors used to assist in transferring products into trucks or as a means of moving products out of a sorter to another area. The flexible stacking roller conveyor is the preferred choice in warehouse areas.
 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Warehouse Conveyor Systems

Here are the advantages and disadvantages of warehouse conveyor systems you should know:
 

- Advantages of warehouse conveyor systems

• Warehouse conveyor systems are best suited for warehouses that handle large volumes of SKUs, especially those that use area-based picking or pick-to-order methods. For orders that require picking from multiple areas, conveyors can easily transport goods from one area to another.
• Material handling conveyors add speed, efficiency, and safety to any warehousing and shipping operation
• Warehouse conveyors allow for faster movement of products from production to storage to staging areas, especially in warehouse configurations with large distances.
• In addition to greater speeds that can significantly increase throughput, automated conveyor systems move products more smoothly, reducing or eliminating damage from occurring. Product damage, especially when undetected, leads to lost profits, returned goods, and ultimately damaged customer relationships — or even lost customers.
• In addition to speed and damage reduction, automated warehouse conveyor systems allow for the replacement of physically demanding, repetitive labor with tasks that add efficiency to warehouse and shipping operations — and last but not least, help reduce injuries, and downtime.

- Disadvantages of Warehouse Conveyor Systems

• The biggest drawback to warehouse conveyor systems is that they are not flexible. Adding a conveyor system to an existing warehouse means major infrastructure changes. They are also bulky, taking up significant space in the warehouse.
• If you need to reconfigure your warehouse layout, you will need to work around a fixed-site conveyor system, and your options will be limited without a major renovation.
• Given their size and complexity, it’s no surprise that warehouse conveyor systems are expensive to implement.

However, the downside to the most serious failure is that a broken warehouse conveyor system can bring an entire operation to a halt.
 

Introducing Intech Warehouse Conveyor Systems

Intech warehouse conveyor systems are durable, reliable, low maintenance, and can be configured to meet the specific and unique needs of your application. Automated conveyor systems reduce downtime, speed up material handling, and drive increased revenue.

Intech warehouse conveyor systems can be designed to meet your height, width, and speed requirements. Our warehouse conveyor solutions offer more functionality and better product protection, making your material handling processes more efficient. Ultimately, more profit for your business.

Contact Intech now to learn more about how automated warehouse conveyor solutions can bring greater efficiency to your material handling processes.

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