Superior Accuracy, Precision, and Confidence for High-Speed Shoe Sorter Applications
Although shoe sorters have dominated the warehouse automation industry for decades, increasing their performance has posed significant challenges.
The Solligence™ Fast Rotary Actuator was specifically designed to overcome long-standing obstacles, including divert speed limitations, heavy electricity use, no indication of equipment health, unpredictability, noise, heat, unplanned downtime, and more — increasing throughput and efficiency while enhancing the bottom lines of integrators and end users.
Solligence integrates sensing capabilities to create closed-loop controlled motion, providing motion assurance for critical shoe sorter applications and data output, optimizing system performance. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms continuously monitor the motion profile, adjusting parameters to maintain the required actuation time, compensating for system wear, extending product life, and enabling all other system components to operate more effectively and confidently.
- Actuator health awareness enables predictive maintenance and reduces unplanned downtime
- Controlled motion with zero bounce increases reliability, performance, and service life
- Lower energy use, noise, and heat dissipation
- Integrated drive reduces infrastructural costs
- Smart communication and internet of things (IoT) data reporting capabilities
- 24 VDC power with polarity insensitivity
- Long service life: 50 million+ cycles
Product Features:
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Rapid Motion in a Compact Design
Depending on the switch geometry, Solligence delivers actuation as low as 5ms enabling Shoe Sorter speeds of up to 800ft/min.
Downtime Prevention with Smart Performance and Monitoring
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms enable predictive maintenance and ensure consistent performance. The unit continuously monitors changes in motion duration, adjusting the drive profile as needed to continue meeting or exceeding specifications, including bounce threshold. The unit also triggers an alert when it detects wear, preventing costly unplanned downtime.
Reduces Power and Infrastructural Costs
The unit’s low voltage and current requirements reduce installation and energy costs, enabling narrower-gauge wire and smaller, less expensive power supplies to be used. Integral energy storage allows power to be “sipped” slowly during the entire cycle and used instantaneously when needed. An integrated drive unit eliminates the need for an external solenoid driver, control box, and assembly labor. Because Solligence is bistable, power is only required to change positions — not to hold the unit in place — resulting in extremely low heat dissipation. The unit’s integral energy storage effectively creates an “electronic spring” that can return it to a home position if power fails.
