Top 5 Benefits of Dynamic DWS Solutions
Warehouse Dynamic DWS Systems prove transformative beyond the scope of billing accuracy, warehouse chargeback prevention, and optimal use of storage units. While the precise data captured thanks to the solution’s accurate parcel dimensioning, weighing, and scanning capabilities remain vital for triggering the domino-effect-like automated warehouse workflow, some advantages are uniquely available with Warehouse Dynamic Dimensioning, Weighing, and Scanning Solutions.
To know more about the other benefits of DWS Systems in logistics, warehousing, and 3PL (third-party logistics) operations, generally, and the workflows involved in order fulfilment, read our blogs, How DWS Improves Fulfilment Accuracy and Speed and Why Is a DWS System Required? Discover Its Role in Modern Logistics.
As for this blog, join us in exploring the advantages of Dynamic DWS to discover what sets the impact of Warehouse Dynamic DWS Systems apart from other similar warehouse automation setups.
Let’s plunge in!
Why Warehousing and 3PL Companies Need Dimensioning, Weighing, and Scanning Solutions? Making the Case for Dynamic DWS Solutions!
Here are 5 key benefits of the solution:
1. Manual Intervention-Free Label Reading
Static vs. Dynamic DWS: What Are the Benefits of DWS in Logistics, 3PL, and Warehousing?
In the static version of the solution, the parcel is manually handled such that the label faces the code reader. Alternatively, the five sides of moving parcels on the Warehouse Dynamic DWS System can be scanned by a single Machine Vision Camera, without any manual adjustment of the parcel on the conveyor feed.
All in all, the goal of Dynamic DWS Solutions, among other Warehouse Automation Solutions, is to amp the warehouse throughput, and this will be one of the common threads across most of the benefits we will cover in this blog.
2. Accurate Parcel Dimensioning of Irregular-Shaped Shipments
Static vs. Dynamic DWS: What Other Measures Increase Throughput in Warehouses Without Manual Intervention?
The challenge with Static DWS, when it comes to accurate parcel dimensioning, is similar to the label reading process, which requires employees to be mindful about placing the label within the code reader’s vision range. Workers must repeatedly handle the shipment, orienting it correctly to capture the dimensions.
While this challenge can be addressed by installing multiple 3D profilers in the Static DWS System, the investment might not be justified by the ROI. This is because the static solution is meant for managing a relatively low throughput in warehouses and other operations where intralogistics automation plays a vital role.
On the contrary, the dynamic version of the solution is specifically built for a sufficiently high throughput that justifies the use and cost of multiple Machine Vision-driven 3D profilers for accurate parcel dimensioning—even for the few odd-shaped shipments, without the need for manual intervention.
As we mentioned, the inherent compatibility of Warehouse Dynamic DWS Solutions for balancing high throughput and accurate parcel dimensioning, weighing, and label reading, let’s dig in further on this point in the next section of the blog.
3. Greater Control Over the Throughput in Warehouses
Static vs. Dynamic DWS: What is the Core Differentiator of Dynamic Dimensioning, Weighing, and Scanning Solutions, Driving High Throughput in Warehouses, 3PL Operations, etc.?
Compared to its static avatar, Dynamic DWS Solutions are significantly better at ensuring high throughput because the solutions are specifically designed to capture moving parcels. For dimensioning and reading labels on moving parcels, the solution, leveraging Machine Vision-based high-speed camera and code readers, requires its own stretch of conveyor belt for the inbound feed of shipments. In most cases, this existing conveyor is either integrated with a sortation system or is extended into the sorter, thereby constituting a seamless setup where the DWS is an integral part of the sorter.
Hence, to begin with, the solution eliminates the time spent between the DWS workstation and the sorter, thereby maximising throughput.
However, when it comes to implementing a higher throughput, just a Dynamic DWS solution integrated into the sorter doesn’t cut it. In the next section, let’s find out why!
4. An Improved Scope for Scalability
Static vs. Dynamic DWS: What Are the Factors Enabling the Dynamic Version to Better Expand Intralogistics Automation Infrastructures?
Counterintuitively yet notably, in terms of practical considerations, while upscaling throughout the conveyor speed must be the least concerning to operations managers.
How to Control Conveyor Speed?
Users can crank up the conveyor speed, spurred by the motor spinning the belt, without much struggle, either by changing the motor or by regulating the motor speed.
Given the Conveyor Speed, How to Ensure Optimal Throughput?
The read rate and the accuracy range of the 3D profiler and the code reader are the prime factors ensuring that the conveyor speed is ideal for automatic data capture. Hence, when upgrading a DWS system to match the desired throughput, the most crucial part of the product research and system upgrade plan must be about the Machine Vision-powered products.
On the other hand, the solution’s counterpart, Static DWS Solutions, can create a bottleneck when its demand drastically increases, leading the decision-makers of the business to spend an additional amount for yet another DWS System workstation.
In turn, such an expansion of infrastructure will not only occupy premium warehouse space that could be better utilised as a storage unit but also require more warehouse resources to carry out material transport. Therefore, when scaling up, Warehouse Dynamic DWS Systems are as ideal for meeting the desired throughput as they are for reducing operational cost and revenue leakage due to unfavourable opportunity costs.
5. Better Use of Material Handling Resources
Static vs. Dynamic DWS: How Do Dynamic DWS Solutions Boost Intralogistics Automation?
Let’s understand the intralogistics automation workflow used across the two types of solutions to make a better-informed decision in selecting the more efficient setup for streamlining intralogistics resources.
How Do In-Warehouse Material Handling Resources Optimise Warehouse Workflow by Collaborating with Static DWS Systems?
Once the dimensioning, weighing, and label scanning are performed, the solutions controller informs the Warehouse Control System, which in turn alerts workers. In the case of end-to-end automation ecosystems, the software enabling hardware-to-hardware communication instructs AMRs (Autonomous Mobile Robots), AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles), and AGCs (Automated Guided Carts) to pick up the shipment in question for the next step in the Warehouse Automation workflow.
What Makes a Dynamic Parcel Weighing and Dimensioning Solution More Suitable for Intralogistics Resource Planning?
Whether the internal movement of shipments is automated or manually supported via workers and manned vehicles, the central advantage of a Warehouse Dynamic DWS Solution, joint with a sorter, is the sheer elimination of one time-consuming, resource-intensive, and,—in the case of employees doing the task,—laborious step in the workflow.
The efficiency amplifies several-fold if the post-sortation workflows are performed by warehouse robotics. The robots are guided by the WCS to pick, store, and eventually retrieve and lead for outbound logistics, based on the shipment’s dimensions and weight, and the PIN Code encoded in the label.
Therefore, if the AMRs and the guided vehicles are exempt from one Good-to-Person (G2P) task, i.e., the automatic material handling between the DWS workstation and the sorter, the time saved can be used to speed up other tasks. In this manner, Warehouse Dynamic Solutions can help optimise throughput with fewer robots and automated material handling solutions, thus ultimately saving infrastructural and operational costs.
Similarly, in a system with manned vehicles or one that relies on manual labour for material handling, removing a step in the workflow saves the total manual labour needed in the warehouse, thus reducing overhead expenditure.
Additional Point on 3PL Automation, Intralogistics Automation, Dynamic Dimensioning, Weighing and Label-Reading, etc.
It is worth noting that the last two benefits of Warehouse Dynamic DWS Systems for 3PL and e-commerce parcel handling have one overlap: cost reduction.
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Frequently Asked Question
DWS System is an integrated solution for auto-capture of shipment dimensions, weight, and encrypted label details, constituting Machine Vision-driven 3D profilers, load cells, and Machine Vision code readers, respectively.
Here are the key throughput-oriented benefits of the solution in logistics, warehouses, 3PL operations, etc:
- Parcel handling at a single touchpoint
- No time wasted in G2P between DWS Solution and the sorter
- Fewer resource coordination problems
These are the key points that set Quinta DWS Systems, including Dynamic DWS Solutions, apart from their counterparts in the market:
- High accuracy of parcel weighing and dimensioning systems
- Fewer instances of “no-read” from code readers
- Quick installation
- Hardware and software experts under one roof
