Package Handling
DCS’s design and engineering team has more than 40 years of experience creating unique parcel handling systems for diverse customer applications. With installations including semi-automated handling in small city distribution centers and fully automated, integrated hubs with advanced conveyor and sorter equipment, DCS routinely thinks outside the box.
E-Commerce and Multi-Channel Fulfillment
DCS designs and implements end-to-end warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce and multi-channel retailers that address numerous workflow challenges. This includes solutions for receiving, putaway, storage, replenishment, order fulfillment, picking, packing, sortation, and outbound shipping. Our custom integrated warehouse, distribution, and fulfillment systems draw from a deep pool of conventional, semi-automated, and automated material handling technologies.
Various Distribution Applications
Whether an operation is considering the construction of a new distribution or fulfillment center, or a retrofit or expansion of an existing facility, it’s important to create a solution that fits the overarching supply chain strategy. DCS has four decades of experience designing and integrating comprehensive, end-to-end material handling solutions that meet a multitude of operational goals. Whether conventional, semi-automated, or fully automated, DCS can help your organization implement a custom solution that meets its goals while maximizing return on investment (ROI).
Supply Chain Consulting
The DCS Supply Chain Consulting team offers a range of services to help your operations address the challenges it faces. Working in partnership with you, DCS consultants analyze your business data- existing workforce, workflow processes, inventory, order data, operations, and more- to determine a strategy that addresses your unique needs. Whether you need an operations assessment, process improvement recommendations, or distribution design services, DCS consultants will help guide you to the material handling system or operational solution that best meets your current and future needs, as well as your budget.
Customer Support
Keeping your warehouse operations and material handling systems running smoothly and at the peak of productivity are the goals of DCS’ Customer Service Team. By partnering with DCS, your warehouse automation solution is supported from commissioning to end of life. You’ll receive comprehensive in-house training of your personnel, including specialized training of your designated internal system expert. Plus, DCS offers a complete package of spare parts and expert system troubleshooting support from qualified engineers dedicated to your installation.
System Design & Integration
DCS offers a broad range of material handling equipment and automated system design, installation, and integration services for a multitude of projects. These include retrofits, expansions, upgrades, and more. While every project is unique, our system design and execution processes are the same, encompassing meticulous attention to detail, frequent communication, and a dedicated partnership with our clients.
About Us
Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) has 40 years of experience serving major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations, and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their needs. DCS does not sell ready-made conveyor systems but builds relationships that empower collaboration to craft custom warehouse designs together. DCS utilizes consulting, engineering design, project management, installation services, and client support to ensure our customers can keep their promises to deliver on time.
Projects
With more than 40 years of experience providing automated system design, installation, and integration services, DCS has created solutions for companies throughout the United States in a broad range of industries and markets. We’ve completed more than 1500 projects ranging from greenfield facilities with completely new systems to expansions and retrofits of existing operations.

Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) and URBX Announce Partnership

DCS is the first systems integrator to make URBX’s high-density/high-throughput goods-to-person robotic automated storage and retrieval solution available to its retail fulfillment customers.

Franklin, Tenn. – February 28, 2024 – Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) and URBX have signed an agreement making DCS the first material handling systems integrator authorized to implement URBX’s high-density/high-throughput goods-to-person robotic automated storage and retrieval solution.

Initially developed at Mass Robotics — the leading robotics incubator of Amazon Robotics, iRobot, and Locus— URBX formally introduced its solution to the fulfillment market in 2023. The URBX system leverages robotics and automation to serve omni-channel retailers with the unique ability to pick and pack multi-item orders in minutes.

The system’s vertical construction can reach heights up to 125 feet with 75 levels of totes stored in a double-deep configuration. Accessed by multiple, free-roaming, dual-robots, the system fills orders up to eight times faster than competitors’ equipment. Thanks to the system’s random access to all inventory and high-density storage, 50-line orders can be fulfilled in less than 3 minutes.

The two companies are currently working together to develop a pilot installation for a DCS customer, said Matt Ferguson, President of DCS. “We are excited to be the first to offer our customers access to this innovative solution,” he said. “The URBX system is truly a strategic game-changer in the retail space because it enables high-speed, on-demand fulfillment of both e-commerce and store-level replenishment orders.”

Additionally, the flexibility and scalability of the URBX solution complements the flexibility and scalability of DCS’ brand-independent, warehouse execution system (WES), DATUM, Ferguson continued. “The needs of our customers’ warehouses, distribution centers, and parcel handling operations continue to grow more complex,” he said. “Having the ability to integrate the URBX system into the brand agnostic solutions we design and deliver to our customers — along with our new WES — will position them with an even more strategic advantage in their markets.”

“Our goal at URBX is to bring automated, on-demand retail fulfillment to everyone. By partnering with DCS, we have an opportunity to help their customers enhance their competitiveness by meeting the intense demand for compact, high-speed fulfillment,” added Lincoln Cavalieri, CEO of URBX. “We look forward to collaborating with DCS now and into the future as they solve their customers’ unique order fulfillment challenges.”

For more information, contact Megan Taylor, DCS Marketing Manager at
(901) 489-6421 or megan@designedconveyor.com.

 

ABOUT DCS

Headquartered in Franklin, Tenn., Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) has 40 years of experience serving major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations, and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their needs. DCS does not sell ready-made conveyor systems but builds relationships that empower collaboration to craft custom warehouse designs together. DCS utilizes consulting, engineering design, project management, installation services, and client support to ensure our customers can keep their promises to deliver on time. For more information, visit www.designedconveyor.com.

ABOUT URBX

URBX is the world’s first on-demand robotics fulfillment system for last-mile delivery. URBX uses cutting edge robotics technology to enable retailers to automate and optimize the in store picking process. The URBX solution uses vertical architecture with a dual-bot system to fulfill orders at high speeds while maximizing density. By using vertical spaces with a small footprint, URBX enables major savings in real estate costs compared to traditional retail structures. URBX is based in Boston, Mass. To learn more, visit www.urbx.com.

 

CONTACT:

Megan Taylor, Marketing Manager, (901) 489-6421, megan@designedconveyor.com

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