If you need to stop before emptying the bin, you can use a slide valve – a flat piece of material in a box that slides in ... lock can be a simple feeder. A conveyor feeder is a belt at the ...

Five hundred FedEx team members will make the sorting facility go, including 85 new hires who joined the world overnight ...

Did you know that chocolate candy production and sorting LEGO bricks have something ... or bricks into individual ones moving down a conveyor belt. At least that’s what [Paco Garcia] found ...

Taking static images from cameras mounted above conveyors, OCR can read and understand labels, addresses, barcodes and ...

Back in July, the Japanese government outlined an intriguing idea to connect major cities with what sounded like a giant ...

A large-scale material handling conveyor demo serves as the platform for an array of motion-control technologies.

As Election Day nears, hundreds of thousands of political ads have stuffed San Franciscans’ mailboxes. It makes for a busy ...

The bunkers empty onto a conveyor belt in the next room, called the Processing Floor, where workers stand along the belt and sort the materials as they flow past. People sometimes put things in ...

Ready or not, the mega-warehouses are coming to town. The largest is a 3.2-million-square-foot, five-story “advanced ...

Peggy Johnson of Agility Robotics gives a demo of the company’s Digit—a robot that can, among other things, sort laundry.

A forklift truck piles everything on the belt, ready for sorting ... Tim drops it on the conveyor belt, where I watch it leap down the line to join other cardboard boxes. My shopping receipt ...

Bob Brawdy bbrawdy@tricityherald.com The sorting process starts with merchandise ... their cargo to waiting employees. Conveyor belts carry boxes past sensors, which register the new arrivals ...