Material Handling: Work Stations

Industrial Work Stations

The industrial work station is integral to order picking, packaging, shipping and other manual tasks related to order fulfillment. With operators processing thousands of orders during a shift, the potential for error in these high speed operations is great.

Banner offers a range of products and solutions that can significantly improve the efficiency, accuracy and output of industrial workstations. Banner pick to light products guide operators through kit packaging, increasing output and improving accuracy. Our LED work lights provide brilliant, maintenance free illumination for workstations, enhancing worker efficiency and experience. Indicator lights from Banner allow operators to provide high visibility status updates or a call for parts without leaving their workstations or stopping production. Banner wireless allows workstations to be quickly realigned without rewiring fixed communication cables, increasing workstation flexibility on the plant floor.

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Applications

Pick-to-Light Solutions

Several technologies and solutions are available for bin-picking applications for error-proofing processes. Light arrays prompt the operator for part selection with integral job lights, then reliably sense retrieval of the part, using an array of visible red or infrared sensing beams located in front of the bin.

Bin Picking for Order Fulfillment

In a book packing warehouse, the rack above each carton of books is equipped with a one-piece EZ-LIGHT PVD pick-to-light sensor. A worker fills orders by selecting the quantity of each book specified on the packing slip. To make it easier for the worker to find the cartons from which to pick books, the PVDs above those cartons are illuminated. The PVD detects the workers hand in the carton to verify that the title was picked.

High-Quality LED Lighting for Workstations

Banner’s WLB32 Industrial Light Bar is ideal for workstations. With a Hi/Lo/Off switch, operators are able to control the lighting level and are able to switch the LED light bar off when they are done. The WLB32 provides workers high brightness with even light output and enables numerous tasks in a workstation, including working on a computer.

Barcode Reading

ABR Series barcode readers can be used to solve track and trace applications, offering increased resolution to read smaller codes, over a larger target area, and at greater distances. Polarization is now available in both 1.3 MP and 2 MP ABR 7000 models for improved performance on targets with reflective surfaces or where glare is present. Our highest resolution camera, the VE is also available in only-barcode reading models, as well as the original vision camera-only model. This makes our VE series is the highest-resolution barcode reader in our portfolio, designed to better solve complex applications.

Part Pick Indication for Small Bins

To reduce the risk of error in an assembly operation, a one-piece EZ-LIGHT PVD pick-to-light sensor with a 400 mm range is interfaced with a process controller programmed with the correct assembly sequence. The controller makes the PVDs light up in the correct order, to show the assembler which part to pick. After the PVD detects that the assembler's hand has entered and left the bin, the controller signals the PVD of the next bin in the pick sequence to light up.

Part Pick Verification for Large Bins

To reduce the risk of error in an assembly operation, a one-piece EZ-LIGHT PVD pick-to-light sensor is placed on the top rail of a shelf, looking down on the shelf opening. The PVD is interfaced with a process controller that is programmed to illuminate the PVD on the bin to pick. After the PVD detects that the assembler's hand has entered and left the bin, the controller signals the PVD on the next bin to pick.

WLB32 LED Workstation Light

Bright, glare-free workstation light with adjustable brightness improves productivity.

WLB92 Large Ultra-Bright LED Work Light

Brightest, adjustable, uniform light for low bay lighting & robotic work cell applications. Easy installation with a variety of mounting options.

K90 Series 90 mm Domed Indicators

Large, 90 mm indicator lights provide extremely bright and uniform illumination from all directions and longer distances.

PM Series - Wire Replacement

An I/O radio network that combines long range line-of-sight coverage with ease of deployment and use. The PM2 Series has four sourcing discrete inputs, four sourcing discrete outputs, two analog inputs and two analog outputs in both the Gateway and the Node.