WORLD OF INDUSTRIES 06/2018 (RU)

Beumer Group attached great value to low maintenance and repair
costs when developing the BG Sorter. Status monitoring and extended
diagnostics tools enable employees to detect possible errors
at an early stage. This has a positive effect on product life-cycle
costs. The sorter can be easily accessed for maintenance and repair.
Its design is compact and permits efficient use of the space above
and below the system.
Innovative kinematics of carriages
A completely innovative carriage featuring two points of articulation
and carrying and guide wheels which are tightly fastened to the
axles has been developed for the carriage assembly of the BG Sorter.
This patented solution offers two advantages: On the one hand, it
enables clearly reduced curve radii compared with conventional
carriage geometries. On the other hand, the polygon effect in curves
is minimized, which results in less oscillations in the system.
The BG Sorter is equipped with carrying wheels that have been
specially developed for it and are larger than those used in comparable
systems. They minimize rolling resistance, which directly results
in lower energy consumption and also ensures reduced noise
emission as well as increased running smoothness.
01 Beumer Group’s BG Sorter combines experience and advantages of
the proven tilt-tray and cross-belt sorter families
Energy-efficient drive
The construction series is available either with the proven Opti­
Drive, which is based on servo drives, or the contactless linear synchronous
motor (LSM). Both drive systems reduce energy consumption
and CO 2
emissions. OptiDrive is a patented highly
efficient frictional drive solution, which offers an economical alternative
to the asynchronous linear motor drives often used in highperformance
sorters. A special feature is that the contact pressure of
the drive wheel is automatically set depending on the required driving
power – even for braking. This boosts efficiency to up to 85 percent
and enhances the service life of the drive wheels. The advantage
of the LSM, which is energy-efficient as well, is that it eliminates
contact between moving parts, providing minimal levels of wear
and tear without compromising speed, capacity and reliability.
BG Sorter CB: cross belt design increases capacity
and safety
The cross-belt sorter BG Sorter CB achieves a high throughput at a
speed of up to three meters per second. The carrying capacity is 50
kilograms per cross belt. “Depending on the throughput and product
mix, we can configure the system with one cross belt per carriage
or with two or three cross belts,” explains Stephan Heessels.
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Stephan Heessels, global Director of Beumer
Group’s Logistic Systems division
“This enables us to sort a wide variety of products with sizes of up to
1,500 x 1,000 mm.” The configuration with several cross belts, especially
with varying product sizes, clearly increases the system capacity
if compared with conventional sorters with only one cross
belt per carriage.
The full cross belt design provides an appropriate response to the
increasing share of items that lack dimensional stability. Thanks to
02 The so-called “closed deck” closes the gap between individual trays,
preventing items from getting stuck between the trays
the maximum belt width, these are safely positioned, transported
and accurately discharged.
The new induction unit places items on the cross belts with maximum
accuracy. The position of the items on the system is checked
after induction and corrected, if necessary, ensuring that the products
are always perfectly positioned.
BG Sorter ET: Intermediate cover prevents failures
The BG Sorter ET is a tilt tray sorter, which can transport items with
a weight of up to 60 kilograms. “Jamming of items between the trays
is among the most frequent reasons for unplanned downtimes of
this sorter type,” says Stephan Heessels. “We have introduced a new
tray design to avoid this.” The so-called “closed deck” closes the gap
between individual trays, preventing items from getting stuck between
the trays. This function reduces downtimes and avoids possible
damage to the sorter or the goods. Users can handle items of
different sizes with more flexibility.
“Our BG Sorter combines future-oriented features, which set new
standards in precise and cost-effective handling of as large a product
range as possible,” says Stephan Heessels. “Providing our customers
with this scalable system, we facilitate their future growth
and help them achieve long-term returns on investment.”
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