GreyOrange and Ninja Van partner on advanced sortation system for high volume last-mile delivery

GreyOrange and Ninja Van partner on advanced
sortation system for high volume last-mile delivery

Singapore, 9 February 2017 – GreyOrange and Ninja Van have announced the
commission of their first high-speed advanced Sortation System capable of handling 6000 parcels an hour at the Singapore hub of Ninja
Van, Southeast Asia’s fastest growing last-mile logistics company. Recognised
as one of the world’s Top 50 Robotics Companies by Robotics Business Review, GreyOrange, headquartered in Singapore, specialises in the
design, manufacture and deployment of advanced robotics and automation systems
for distribution and fulfilment centres.

Nalin Advani, CEO, GreyOrange Asia-Pacific said,
“The Linear Sorter has been tried and tested by many of Asia’s leading
ecommerce and logistics companies and we are proud to welcome Ninja Van to this
family.  Both our companies share a similar history in recent years
operating in a fast-paced logistics industry that has seen explosive
growth in ecommerce and last mile delivery. We know what Ninja Van wants and
are looking forward to installing the complete system within the next
weeks.”

Tan Bo Xian, Co-founder and COO,
Ninja Van Southeast Asia said, “At Ninja Van, technology is always at the heart
of everything we do, and we are always looking to optimise and automate
processes to improve efficiencies. We have been studying a solution such as
this since our early days, and are happy to have grown to the point where our
volumes well justify the investment. The GreyOrange Sortation system allows us
to operate round the clock with a much leaner team of staff, reducing labour
costs significantly. We are also pleased that the line is very compact,
optimising space utilisation while increasing productivity.”

The proprietary embedded system of the GreyOrange Linear Sorter combines advanced software and two lines of
high-speed sortation conveyors capable of sorting thousands of parcels in
various shapes and sizes including polybags, plus irregular and fragile
packages. The system starts at the Auto-spacer where sensors determine how the
parcels are spread to ensure gaps between the parcels are even. Each parcel is
then identified by 1D or 2D barcodes where both its gross and volumetric
weights are automatically recorded, before it quickly moves along the
high-speed conveyor which sorts the parcels according to dispatch time,
destination and other parameters as determined at different times of the day,
including service levels such as same-day and next-day delivery.