From single sorters to plant-wide WCS rollouts. We deliver DC and 3PL automation built against ISA-95, ISO 13849 and GS1 — designed at 150% of nominal volume, with WMS / WES / WCS integration and real-time visibility from receive to ship. For logistics and warehouse automation programs, this keeps throughput, order accuracy, and shipping continuity aligned under peak pressure.
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Warehouse automation moves fastest when teams eliminate the highest-cost fulfillment bottleneck first. That usually starts in receiving, sortation, picking, packing, or shipping where throughput loss or accuracy drift has measurable cost.
It combines conveyors, sortation, robotics, controls engineering, and software orchestration to improve order flow, inventory visibility, and operational reliability in distribution environments.
ROI is usually estimated from throughput gain, labor efficiency, error reduction, and downtime recovery with baseline KPIs established before implementation.
Yes. Most projects connect with existing WMS or adjacent orchestration layers so routing, inventory events, and exception handling remain synchronized across systems.
Support can begin quickly with remote diagnostics and then move to targeted on-site intervention for flow, controls, or integration constraints.
Teams implementing logistics and warehouse automation generally compare controls depth, integration resilience, and support coverage before final scope approval, especially when evaluating warehouse automation companies for long-term support models.
Industry references: MHI · GS1 Standards · OSHA Warehousing · CEMADC assets run 16–24 hours a day for a decade. Our deployments are built against this matrix from URS forward — not bolted on at FAT.
Layered architecture from device to enterprise WMS.
Functional safety for conveyors, sorters and robotic cells.
Electrical and fire-life-safety standards for DCs.
Powered industrial truck and lockout/tagout compliance.
Standardized labeling and supply-chain event capture.
Material-handling industry standards for conveyors and storage.
From conveyor to WCS. Switch tabs to inspect the spec for each subsystem.
Belt · roller · MDR · zone control. Engineered for peak volume, with WMS-grade visibility and per-asset throughput / accuracy reporting built in.
Schematic of a typical e-commerce DC, from inbound dock through sortation, pick modules, palletize and outbound, with WCS / WMS visibility throughout.
Belt, roller, MDR with accumulation, merge and divert at WCS speed.
Shoe, cross-belt and sliding-shoe sorters with tunnel scan + servo divert.
Mixed-SKU palletizing for outbound, vision-guided depal for receiving.
Pick-to-light, goods-to-person and AMR fleet coordination with WMS.
Inline dimensioning, checkweigh, print-and-apply, dock door coordination.
Real-time dashboards, throughput, jam and exception management to WMS.
Five gates. Each gate produces a controlled deliverable signed under our quality system — sized for peak from URS forward.
A national 3PL needed to double throughput on a legacy conveyor system without rebuilding the mechanical envelope. iAutomate owned the controls + WCS retrofit.
"We doubled throughput without pouring concrete. iAutomate's controls retrofit was the entire story."
Zone control, merge / divert, sortation logic.
High-speed cells with vision and mixed SKU.
OPC UA / REST to Manhattan, Blue Yonder, SAP.
Move and re-commission conveyor and sortation.
Yes. We integrate at the WCS / WES boundary with all major WMS platforms — Manhattan Associates, Blue Yonder (JDA), SAP EWM, Oracle WMS, Körber (HighJump) and Infor — using OPC UA, REST and message-bus patterns. Real-time inventory, dynamic routing, wave release and exception handling are all in scope.
We design for peak from day one — typically 150% of nominal volume — using modular zone control, surge buffers and recirculation logic that absorbs short bursts without choking. Controls are tuned so peak weeks don't require reprogramming, just operational ramping.
We are vendor-neutral on the mechanical side. We've integrated controls for Hytrol, Dematic, Honeywell Intelligrated, TGW, Vanderlande, Daifuku, Knapp and Bastian — and added scope to existing systems from each. Our PLC, WCS and visibility layer is the constant.
Yes. We integrate AMR fleets (Locus, 6 River Systems, OTTO, MiR) and AGVs into existing conveyor and pick workflows, including safety segregation, charging zones, and traffic management between humans and bots in mixed environments.
Yes. We offer tiered support contracts (Standard, Priority, 24/7 Critical) with documented response times and on-call escalation — including peak-season surge support so your DC has eyes on the controls when volume hits.
Single sorters to plant-wide WCS retrofits. Designed at 150% of nominal volume. Talk to a DC engineer this week and define the right roadmap for logistics and warehouse automation without disrupting fulfillment output. If your flow also crosses production lines, review our manufacturing automation programs and food and beverage automation workflows.
