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Fives Cinetic

Email: fivescinetic-sorting-it@fivesgroup.com
Web: http://www.fivesgroup.com/fivescinetic_logistics

Fives Cinetic is a solutions provider for logistics applications, ranging from small transport and conveying automation to complex, high-capacity sorting systems. Its experience in designing and managing international projects of various sizes enables it to deliver efficient automated systems in all its markets.

The products in its portfolio enable the company to deliver processes, such as tray-management systems, rest-mail sorting and mixed-parcel sorting.

Fives Cinetic’s logistics division consists of five companies in Italy, France, the USA and Japan, and is part of the international industrial FIVES group, based in France.

Its strength is based on the ability to deliver its own products as the core of the system. The product portfolio includes a complete range of material handling equipment, consisting of belt and roller conveyors, pick-to-light systems, pop-up sorters, shoe sorters, singulators and cross-belt sorters. All these technologies are developed in-house, together with their specific real-time controls, and are prepared for integration in any open connection environment, including the Cinetic high-level process control software.

Among these products it is important to mention two best-in-class technologies: the singulation technology applied in the Accord singulator and the Linear Parcel Singulator (LPS). These machines are able to transform a bulk flow of items in a singular file, where items are properly aligned and gapped, in order to be efficiently loaded onto automated processing systems such as weight and volume detection or sorting systems.

The second technology is the cross belt, invented by the company in 1980. Cross-belt sorters are composed of an endless train of belt conveyors (cells) installed orthogonally on carriers that are travelling on a rail system. Each cell is capable of performing active and controlled loading and unloading of one item. The function and performance of the machine have been improved through the generations and now deliver the highest level of accuracy and reliability, even at the highest speed and in the presence of irregular or difficult items.

Cross-belt technology is applied to a family of sorters named SBIR, capable of handling everything from a single CD to 1,400 x 800mm, 50kg parcels.

Attention to customers is not limited to project execution: more than 25 percent of personnel are involved in after-sales service, guaranteeing a variety of services worldwide, from on-call service to remote software assistance, and from planned preventive maintenance intervention to global service solutions.