Automated Materials Handling

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Tech-Logic conveyor brings material from upstairs into workroom. (One of the Minneapolis Public libraries)

Like a robotic, book-carrying train

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This is a close-up look at the unstacker working. Delivery staff delivery a stack of totes to it (via handtruck) and the unit takes care of unstacking each one and loading it into a rack until it is time to sort.

This video shows the layout of a central sorting operation. Note the loading dock for backing up delivery trucks. Stacks of totes are taken to the unstacker (silver unit in the center) and then each tote is stored into the huge rack in the background until it is time to sort it.

Konecranes Agilon material handling and management system - coming soon to a library near you? I hope so! Stay tuned!!

The Aarhus Library sorts 1.7 million items each year with a 50-bin sorter configured with stacking carts for material that stays at Main and totes (stackable up to 3 high) of material for distribution to other libraries. Requires only 1-3 people to staff it (lots more to do shelving). Oh, and the library is amazing (Google Dokk1)

When you check out items from the library, you likely don’t think much about the process taken to get those materials to the proper branch and into your hands, but a brand new distribution center is expected to make those logistics run much more smoothly.

The 50-bin sorter at Aarhus Library has two arms with about 25 sort destinations on each arm. This is the arm for the central delivery. Items are sorted into totes. Each destination can hold up to three totes. When one tote is filled, staff press the button to lower it and add another tote on the stack. When all three totes are full (or they are done with the daily sort), the entire stack can be moved.

This is one arm of the sorter at Aarhus Library. All of the sort destinations have a ready-to-shelve cart. As they fill up, the carts can be taken directly out to the library for shelving. There are 25 sort destinations with these carts. The other arm has another 25 sort destinations for totes.

Check out the video on this page showing the path of a book through sorter at DOK1 Library in Aarhus. Multiple elevators bring all material down to the main sorter.

When you check out items from the library, you likely don’t think much about the process taken to get those materials to the proper branch and into your hands, but a brand new distribution center is expected to make those logistics run much more smoothly.

Annie All Star at the Annex (Born - December 2010) (Naming Ceremony, August 25, 2011) The first sorter to come into town, this the bigg...

Our automated sorter, a.k.a. "The Green Machine," allows us to get returned items and holds on the shelf in 8 hours--half the time it took to sort them by hand.

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What started out as friendly trash talk has turned into a full-on competition between New York and Seattle for the title of fastest library book-sorters.

The King County Library System materials warehouse staff raced their New York Public Library counterparts in a “sorting smackdown,” to see who could sort the most books in an hour.

“Flying Around Book Ops” is a short video by photographer Nate Bolt featuring drone footage of the massive book sorting center in Queens, New York that

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This is the PV Supa sorter at Aahrus Library. The video shows their automatic induction process. This station can be used by a human or a human can place the stack at the induction station while he or she goes around the sorter to replace empty totes and check on things.

This is another view of the unloader on the PV Supa sorter at Aarhus Library (Denmark). Using this unloader, they are able to sort 1.7 million items every year (about 50 sort destinations) with just 1-3 people working the sorter at any one time. And the product is super simple without a bunch of moving parts. Kind of an elegant low tech solution.

Stacking shelf that inducts items one-at-a-time onto the sorter so staff don't have to stand there and do it. Its an elegant simple solution without a lot of moving parts. Impressive product from PV Supa.

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Library Mate Mini Sorter.

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See how the automated sorting equipment works at the Champaign Public Library.

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