Swedish postal service uses VITRONIC technology: Offline videocoding shortens parcel delivery times

VITRONIC, a leading provider of optical identification systems for the enhancement of logistical processes, has been contracted with equipping the Swedish postal service with offline videocoding. At the sixth location, competitor systems will additionally be replaced with state of the art VITRONIC technology. This means that all of the distribution centers in the Swedish postal system are equipped with VIPAC systems which read barcodes fully automatically on three parcel sides.

The Swedish postal system has contracted VITRONIC with equipping 59 work stations in six distribution centers with offline videocoding, meaning that the Swedish postal service can shorten parcel delivery times. To date, parcels are delivered to regional post offices from the six distribution centers. Here, employees take down the recipient addresses manually before prompting them to pick up their goods by sending them a postcard. Offline videocoding makes this procedure automatic: in future, in each of the six distribution centers, the complete address information of the recipient will be registered after sorting using photographic images. While the parcels are transported to local depots by truck, the Swedish postal service informs the end customer of the planned arrival of the parcel. This means that delivery is quicker and more efficient.

Together with videocoding, VIPAC achieves an identification rate of almost 100 per cent. Parcels which cannot be read by machine, or incompletely identified addresses, are transferred via a rapid network to videocoding work stations. An image is sent to an available work station, where trained personnel then supplement the information online or offline. Online videocoding means that the information is immediately entered in a defined space of time, and made ready for sorting and further processing. With offline videocoding, the personnel supplement this information downstream, which isn’t required for sorting, but for delivery. Information can also be transferred for videocoding to central processing points for several distribution centers.

About Vitronic:
Since 1984, Vitronic Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH in Wiesbaden, Germany, has produced industrial machine vision systems. Vitronic's solutions are all designed, developed, produced and marketed in-house. This approach enables Vitronic’s customers to obtain turn-key systems, including both hardware and software, from one source. Our customers in the fields of material flow, parcel logistics, warehousing and mail-order companies have a growing need to optimize their logistic processes. The basis for this is automated data collection relating to products, parcels, and customers. This also includes identifying addresses (OCR), bar codes, 2-D codes, and customer-specific codes as well as the online measurement of the volume and weight of a consignment. Using this information it is possible to effectively optimize internal sorting, storage, distribution and even revenue recovery processes.

For further information:
VITRONIC Dr.-Ing. Stein Bildverarbeitungssysteme GmbH
Hasengartenstr. 14
65189 Wiesbaden
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)611-7152-0
Fax: +49-(0)611-7152-133
Contact: Lucas Goebel
www.vitronic.com

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