What Is Four Way Shuttle?

Four Way shuttle

Pallet shuttle system (4 way speed shuttle) is automated high-density storage and retrieval system for the handling of palletized goods. It's an optimal solution for the storage of goods with mass quantity and small SKU, widely used in the industry of Food & beverage, chemical, third party logistics etc. It's an updated version of standard radio shuttle system. The shuttle is able to move in 4 directions on the storage lanes and main lanes. In this way the shuttle can change lanes without operation of forklift, greatly save labor cost and improve warehousing efficiency.

How did the four way shuttle?

Four way pallet shuttle uses the servo motor to drive the machine to work and with help of planetary deceleration plus commutator to promote rapid commutation in two directions to make the shuttle travels in two directions.

Standard four-way shuttle robot is suitable for most intensive storage with pallet racking. It can realize the operation of picking, transporting and placing the goods within three-dimensional warehouses, ans also can interact with the Warehouse Control System (WCS), and combine Warehouse Management System (WMS), RFID, barcode identification and other logistics information technologies to realize automatic identification of goods, single access, continuous access, automatic tally and other functions.

Through the encoder, RFID, photoelectric sensor and other digital technologies, four way shuttle system is able to accurately locate each input, output station, configure intelligent scheduling system, automatic reciprocating shuttle handling after receiving materials.

Benefit of four way pallet shuttle

• Greatly increase storage capacity, which is 3-4 times large than traditional racking system.

• Cost effective and time-saving, reduce land and labor cost

• Fully automatic, low level of risks or damage to the equipment and operator.

• Self-designed WMS/WCS system to well match shuttle system.

• Available to meet various storage capacity demand with adjustment of shuttle quantity.