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简体中文 Have you ever looked up while shopping at the supermarket? The packages swishing and sliding by overhead are the secret weapon that allows supermarkets to deliver to your home in half an hour! This set.Suspension Conveyor SystemsThe three modules make the use of space a lot more interesting.Vertical Lifter, Unidirectional Needle Pusher Line, Order Picking LineIn the end, it is hard to create an ”air highway” above the customer's head. What's more, it doesn't affect you at all when you push the shopping cart around, truly realizing the ”air highway".Run orders from the sky, shop on the ground as usual”. Let's take it apart today and see how this thing does it!
I. Vertical elevator: small body big capacity
Imagine a supermarket backlot with an ”elevator in the sky” - a vertical lift. It can be used inLift packages up to 8 meters in a short 3 meter horizontal distance, direct cross-floor delivery! For example, the fresh food section is on the first floor and the packing section is on the second floor? No problem! The elevator catches the totes and sends them upstairs in less than 20 seconds.
Why save space?
Traditional operation to repair the slope conveyor belt, accounting for at least 10 square meters of land; this machine as long as the size of an ”elevator shaft”, the ground is still placed on the shelves. A supermarket in Shanghai relied on it to free up 30% backyard area, more than 200 promotional piles!
II. Unidirectional Push Stitch: Gluttony on the Ceiling
This is the real - space magician! The chain carries the push pin around in an aluminum track thatIt's like eating your own tail in a loop.. The best part is that itFully roof-mounted, the track is only 15 centimeters thick, even the fire sprinklers can be bypassed.
Look at the set of comparisons and you'll see how much land is saved 👇.
| traditional conveyor belt | Unidirectional push-needle thread |
|---|---|
| Requires a 3 meter wide turnaround area | Internal self-circulation, 0 slewing space |
| Horizontal transportation only | Climbing 60° steep slopes |
| Maintenance will have to tear down the whole line. | Segmented maintenance without stopping work |
| The actual case is even more shocking: a fresh food supermarket in Wuhan used a push-pin line across a 6-meter pick-up atrium to connect the aquatic area and the distribution station.Elimination of 200 meters of floor conveyor belts! |
III. Order Sorting Line: RFID Navigated Airborne Courier
Pickers hang up packages and that's it? The backstage is called wonderful! Each turnover bag embedded RFID chip, like a parcel loaded with GPS. sorting line automatically recognizes the path:
- fresh food categoryTake the cold storage channel, the temperature is controlled at 5℃.
- articles for daily useTake the room temperature line, 28 meters per minute.
- Urgent OrdersTrigger the red light to prioritize queue jumping
Hangzhou box horse used this trick to reduce the rate of wrong packages toBelow 0.3%It's 4 times faster than manual sorting. The key is that all the tracks stick to the beams, customers look up and can only see the streamlined silver piping, and thought it was decorative light strips!
Fourth, the dynamic line of protection tips: supermarket version of the ”pedestrian-vehicle segregation”
The design that makes people slap their thighs the most - it uses three-dimensional transportation to completely separate the flow of people and logistics:
- customer level: 1.5-2 meters comfortable shopping height, warm yellow shelf lighting
- transportation layer: 2.8m+ track area, cool white light for efficient operation
- emergency layer: 50cm maintenance channel left on both sides of the track, maintenance workers climbing ladder without landing
A high-end supermarket in Beijing even madeacoustic noise reductionThe noise level of the conveyor line is controlled at 45 decibels, which is lower than background music. Customer feedback is especially true: ”If I hadn't seen the packages flying past, I wouldn't have known there were machines overhead!”
Personal opinion: this is not a device? It's a space revolution!
Anyone who has worked in retail understands that the most expensive thing in a supermarket is theBenefits per square meterThe suspension system turns the unused ”fifth façade” (ceiling) into a prime access point. The suspension system turns the unused "fifth façade" (ceiling) into a prime aisle, which is equivalent to earning 30% of operating space for nothing. Even better, it reinvents the supermarket's DNA - theDo experience in the front field, turn the back field into a warehouse, and manage the distribution in the air, the triple space has its own role to play.
Next time you see a swing bag sliding overhead, don't just focus on the novelty. It's not just merchandise in there. It's the entire retail industry's ambition for sky-high efficiency!
