What Is a Dynamic DWS System?
A DWS machine is an automation solution that identifies the L x B x H, dead weight, and the label-encoded details of a shipment without manual measuring and scanning.
Given that primarily there are two types of DWS solutions, what is the key distinguishing feature that makes an integrated dimensioning, weighing, and code reading (DWS) setup? Dynamic DWS System are specifically built for automatically measuring the volumetric weight of moving shipments.
Used for billing by Dimensional Weight (DIM), the Warehouse and Manufacturing Automation Solution is configured for driving continuous throughput, thereby elevating the overall productivity of the intralogistics operations.
What Goes into the Making of Dynamic DWS Solutions?
Dynamic DWS Solutions are primarily composed of four key components, which contribute to automatic data capture in terms of shipment dimensions, dead weight, and label-encrypted data, such as the shipment ID. These components that empower the dimensional weighing systems to capture data instantly are:
- Machine Vision-Powered 3D Profilers/Dimensioners that register the L x B x H of different types of shipments: non-cuboidal, cuboidal, and even those without a defined shape
- Code Readers with Machine Vision Capabilities, which eliminate no-reads with the help of image-based label auto-identification
- Ultra-sensitive Weighting Scales, designed for instantly registering the actual weight of the moving shipment
- Conveyor Belt, the central feature that keeps the infeed shipment moving, and often seamlessly connects the solution to sortation systems(sorters) and other workflows
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What are the Key Advantages of Dynamic DWS Systems?
Accurate Billing
Using Dynamic DWS for freight billing ensures error-free bill generation by capturing precise shipment data, thus leading to a high degree of transparency while upholding competitive pricing.
Optimised and High-Speed Throughput
The Dynamic DWS setup is integrated with other Warehouse Automation Solutions, leading to non-stop shipment processing.
Revenue Leakage Prevention
The solution eliminates the scope of compromised profitability with error-free readings that help avoid loss owing to undercharging and unplanned chargebacks that follow overcharging, which also leads to massive opportunity costs
Intelligent Decision-Making
The workflow setup is a driver of smart automation across warehouses, as the data it captures helps the WMS coordinate between solutions, allocate storage slots for shipments, and schedule outbound logistics, among other tasks.
What’s the Difference that Quinta’s Solution-Building Makes?
Discover the Main Features of Quinta’s Dynamic DWS Systems
Various Types of Machine Vision 3D Profilers for Dimensioning
Based on the client’s operational needs and budgetary considerations, we help integrate Machine Vision-enabled 3D profilers, which come within a wide range of read rates and accuracy. Quinta has a track record of building Dynamic DWS Solutions in which the dimensioner(s) offer precise L x B x H measurements up to 5 mm accuracy. Similarly, other Machine Vision-driven dimensioners we use reduce the errors in parcel dimensioning to a minuscule order of a few millimetres.
Integrated Strain Gauge Weighing Scales for Automatically Capturing Shipment Dead Weight
To register the accurate weight of moving shipments, Quinta not only opts for ultra-sensitive strain gauge load cells but also runs thorough in-workshop and on-site pilots. This three-step verification process is a testament to our dedication and focus on offering top-of-the-line Dynamic DWS Systems.
Based Machine Vision Capabilities, Built for Avoiding No-Reads
Code Readers with Image-Based Machine Vision Capabilities, Built for Avoiding No-Reads The main benefit of an image-based Machine Vision code reader is its high adaptability to increasing throughput. This is because there is a slight delay between capturing the label’s image and registering the encrypted data. While the code reader’s algorithm processes the label data, the camera can continue capturing images of the next parcel’s label, avoiding delays caused by no-reads. Quinta prefers using this type of label reader to identify even damaged, blurred, or low-contrast labels, whether they are laser-engraved codes or 2D, 1D codes pasted against different surfaces.
with an Equally Robust WCS Abstraction Layer Enabling Smooth Solution-to-Solution Communication Across the Warehouse Automation Solutions Suite
Quinta’s key value-addition is that it has both hardware and software capabilities. This powerful combination sets us apart from most warehouse automation solution builders in the market, enabling us to empower warehouse operations with mechanical automation as well as software-driven smart decision-making. Thanks to our software experts, who have a wealth of experience in solution integrations, we often conduct digital transformation projects without unnecessarily eliminating pre-existing hardware.
Do you know? Dynamic parcel dimensioning systems are often the onset of full-scale, end-to-end warehouse automation. To know more about a comprehensive pathway to smart warehousing
What are the Advantages of Quinta’s Dynamic DWS Systems?
In manufacturing and warehousing operations with a Dynamic DWS System, the solution is the starting point of the warehouse automation suite or the automated inventory management system.
To begin with, Quinta’s team of experts ensures that the workflow is meticulously designed, seamlessly interlinking each process. The data captured by the Dynamic DWS System plays a central role in coordinating the host of automation solutions, including the robot fleets and sorters, for an uninterrupted, end-to-end automation process.
Let’s look at a few examples of the impact Dynamic DWS Solutions make in the warehouses and manufacturing units!
Easy DWS-Sorter Integration Powering Improved Throughput
Ensure continuous dimensioning, weighing, scanning, and sorting, based on the PIN Code information decoded by the code reader in the Dynamic DWS System. This non-stop automatic shipment processing is made possible by the solution’s conveyor belt, which in many cases links the setup to the sortation system, also known as the sorter.
Accurate DIM Measurements for Eliminating Billing Disputes
Verify customer-declared weights to cap revenue leakage through undercharging, while also fostering transparency by avoiding overcharging caused by inaccurate volumetric weight measurements. Further, precise measurements are also useful for offering competitive shipping rates.
Precise Dimensioning and Weighing Informing Subsequent Workflows
Support the WMS to assign autonomous or guided automatic intralogistics robots based on shipment weight, PIN Code, and dimensions. These details also help plan outbound logistics while aiding the Automated Storage and Retrieval System to decide the right storage slot for a given pallet/shipment.
The Value-Addition of Quinta’s Dynamic DWS System for Warehouse Automation—
Insights into Quinta’s Project Management Approach
Consulting & Ideation
Considering how capital-intensive investing in a Dynamic DWS System is, especially if the setup is integrated with a sortation system, our goal is to create as fail-proof a solution and installation framework as possible. This is why we, at Quinta, begin our Digital Transformation projects with Gap Analysis, which accounts for throughput needs, budgetary constraints, integration challenges in the given automation ecosystem, and measures to future-proof the solutions based on industry trends, expansion plans, etc.
Customisation
Our key focus lies on creating solutions that perfectly align with the unique business needs and workflow. Therefore, while integrating Dynamic DWS Systems, we keep in mind the following:
Conveyor Speed
Read Rate of Machine Vision-Powered Components
Maximum Load Capacity of the Integrated Scale
Resilience
We focus on ensuring that our solutions are as robust as they are efficient and cost-effective. Based on the budget allocated for the solution-building, we strive to ruggedise the Dynamic DWS setup such that the system survives the wear and tear from round-the-clock use and harsh environmental conditions, thereby reducing maintenance costs and downtime.
The Extra Mile
Our Consultation also includes identifying other automation opportunities which can boost your operational efficiency and thus, the profitability of your Warehousing and 3PL company.
Bolster your customer loyalty with improved order fulfilment speed by leveraging a Dynamic DWS for freight billing.
Industries Quinta’s Dynamic DWS Systems Serve
- Third-Party Logistics (3PL)
- E-Commerce Warehouses and Other Warehouses
- Manufacturing
Specifications of the Quinta Dynamic DWS Systems
- L x B x H—Max 1200 x 1000 x 1000; Min 100 x 100 x 100
- Weight—Max 80 kg; Min 500 g
- Types of Packages—Flyers, Carton Boxes, Shrink-Wrapped Boxes, Poly-Wrapped Boxes, and Non-cuboidal Shipments (Even Irregular-Shaped Items)
The success of your Digital Transformation project begins with a thorough Consulting effort.
Frequently Asked Question
The main features of Dynamic DWS technology solutions are:
- 3D Profilers (Machine Vision-based)
- Strain Guage Load Cell Scales
- Image-based Code Readers (with Machine Vision capabilities)
- Conveyor Belt (set to the desired throughput speed)
Much like the conveyor belt speed, the read rates of the code reader and the profiler influence the optimal Dynamic DWS System throughput.
The term refers to the degree of precision of each DWS machine component. The smaller the range of errors of each component, the more accurate the solution. For example, Quinta’s DWS solutions feature profilers with an error range as small as ± 5 mm.
Dynamic DWS system benefits include:
- Increased billing accuracy
- Improved readiness for high throughput demands
- Reduced sorting errors
- Better warehouse workflow planning
The solution can optimise workflows such as ASRS, sortation, post-sortation G2P, and outbound logistics planning.
This process is initiated as soon as the code reader in the DWS solution scans and identifies the label details. The encrypted details, particularly the PIN Code, are relayed to the sorter systems by the WMS via the WCS, thereby triggering the sorting mechanism timely manner for nudging shipments into the right bin.
Ideally, the time for a Dynamic Dimensioning Weighing Scanning System installation depends on the project's complexity. However, we have typically managed to complete all our warehouse automation system deployments, including DWS setups, within 2-7 working days so far.
Like the time taken for installation, the cost of DWS implementation depends on the project’s scale and the complexities involved in the design and execution. Yet, it is worth noting that Quinta strives to ensure that our solution-building process and the choice of components meet the following three criteria: resilience, affordability, and efficiency.
Our customer support team swiftly responds to any service request, ensuring that your operations return to their maximum output as soon as possible. We offer both remote diagnostics and on-site maintenance, wherever applicable and as per SLAs, for all solutions, including models of Dynamic DWS for 3PL-providers.
The implementation of Dynamic DWS for parcel dimensioning requires a critical minimum throughput and business scale. If a relatively small business meets these conditions for justifying the investment-heavy Digital Transformation project, then the ROI is a net positive.
Businesses must consider Dynamic DWS for warehouse automation as a part of the whole, rather than a lone automation solution. Such a measure leads to superior profitability, thanks to an overall spike in operational efficiency.