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.

The Future of Warehouse Automation

It’s no secret that technology is going to continue to evolve at a high rate of speed. This applies to the vehicles we drive, the phones we use, and the way we consume various forms of media.

Autonomous cars are already being tested on our streets. This advancement was once thought to be so far on the horizon that we might never see it. However, the existence of this technology points to the fact that our innovations are moving along at a faster pace than much of us realize.

This also applies to warehouse automation. This industry has made some great strides over the last decade, and this trend is going to continue into the future.

This is going to create a lot of opportunities to streamline various processes. And warehouse automation is an industry that is primed to make use of these advancements.

Here are some of the ways warehouse automation will progress and support warehouses moving forward:

  • Increased Demand
  • Continued Ingenuity
  • Streamlined Processes
  • Warehouse Management Technology
  • Tangible Benefits

Increased Demand

Customer patience is famous for shrinking over time. And as people become more accustomed to getting the items they want quickly, an increased focus on this ability will push the technology.

Consumers are already used to Amazon’s two day shipping. This has become so ubiquitous that it’s fast becoming the standard. Many companies are looking for ways to compete with such a service and get items into the hands of their customers faster.

Shipping directly to customers’ doors isn’t always necessary, but speed of transfer – even to stores – is going to continue being a focus moving forward.

Continued Ingenuity

Technology doesn’t stop its movement toward the future. This is true for every industry. Even publishing – the act of reading a book – has been addressed with continued advancements in technology. No industry is immune to the progress of the human mind.

Warehouse automation is already at a very respectable place. There are picking and sorting systems that have greatly improved on the processes of the past. Intelligent conveyor systems have made transferring items much easier than could have been imagined a generation ago.

And this trend is going to continue to integrate new technologies in interesting ways to help warehouses achieve maximum efficiency.

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Streamlined Processes

This efficiency is the main goal. There are a lot of moving parts within a successful warehouse. The ability to get all of these parts to line up and work together will be what separates warehouses of the future and warehouses of the past.

Everything from inventory, to picking, to sorting, to shipping will need to be synchronized. This difficult task will be made much easier with future versions of warehouse automation.

Autonomous picking robots are already being integrated into various industries. This technology will be perfected over time.

Warehouse Management Technology

There are a series of tasks within a warehouse that don’t have anything to do with physically finding, arranging, and sorting materials. However, these tasks are what set the infrastructure so the physical tasks can be completed as efficiently as possible.

These tasks can be tracked, updated, and compiled with the help of warehouse automation. This includes using barcode scanners to capture information which can then be tracked. This can be used for considerations such as updated inventory counts, or even tracking down misplaced packages.

Management technology is what sets the stage for a successful warehouse. Further advancements in this technology will make everyone’s jobs much easier.

Tangible Benefits

There are a lot of people that are resistant to change. These advancements can create a lot of questions in people’s minds as to how this will affect the warehouse industry – and its workers – moving forward.

These advancements are going to help everyone involved – from the warehouse employees, to the customers, to the business as a whole. Here are some of the ways this will happen:

Safety

Accidents are bound to happen even in the safest warehouses. This usually happens either when there’s a mechanical failure, or people are where they shouldn’t be. Increased warehouse automation will clear the pathways that formally posed a risk.

Accuracy

Manual errors lead to product losses and delayed shipments. Automation is much less likely to make the same errors, diminishing time lost to incorrectly labeled or stored items.

Efficiency

Automated systems are designed to locate packages quickly, and this ability is only going to grow stronger. An elimination of delays and mistakes will get the jobs done quicker, making the warehouse operate much more efficiently.

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