WIXOM, MI - ISD - Integrated Systems Design today announced the Robotic 3D Sorter Mini Putwall System, an advanced sortation solution that transforms warehouse operations through its innovative three-dimensional design. The system delivers impressive metrics including 70% labor savings and return on investment in under a year.The 3D Sorter Mini utilizes both vertical and horizontal space to minimize footprint while maximizing sortation capabilities. With a throughput of up to 1,500 pieces per hour and 3 to 5 times greater sorting efficiency compared to manual methods, the system addresses critical challenges facing modern warehouses."What makes the 3D Sorter Mini truly exceptional is its ability to deliver enterprise-level sortation performance in a compact footprint," said Ed Romaine, VP Marketing and Business Development at ISD. "We're seeing clients achieve dramatic improvements in efficiency while significantly reducing labor costs. This system represents a fundamental shift in how warehouses approach the entire sortation process."The system's intelligent design accommodates up to 100 customizable sort positions and integrates seamlessly with existing warehouse technologies, including Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS), conveyor systems, and shelving solutions.By automating the sortation process, operations can significantly reduce reliance on manual labor while processing items at previously unattainable rates in comparable spaces. The combination of labor savings, improved throughput, and reduced error rates contributes to the system's notably fast return on investment.In today's competitive real estate market, the 3D Sorter Mini addresses space constraints through vertical design, requiring significantly less floor area than traditional sorting systems. Its modular, customizable configuration makes it ideal for operations experiencing seasonal fluctuations in demand.The system features advanced intelligence with seamless integration capabilities for major Warehouse Management Systems, Warehouse Execution Systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning platforms. Despite its sophisticated technology, the 3D Sorter Mini is designed for rapid deployment with minimal training requirements.Its versatility makes it suitable for diverse applications across numerous sectors including e-commerce, apparel and footwear, third-party logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. The underlying technology includes high-speed sorting robots operating at 1.0 m/s with vertical lifting ranges from 500mm to 2100mm, intelligent routing, and gentle handling through high-friction conveyor belts.As warehouses face increasing pressure to process more orders faster while controlling costs, solutions like the Robotic 3D Sorter Mini Putwall System represent essential technology for competitive operations. The system's combination of space efficiency, labor savings, and cross-industry adaptability positions it as a key advancement in warehouse automation.About Integrated Systems Design - ISD Integrated Systems Design is a comprehensive systems integrator of automated solutions for warehouses, manufacturing, distribution centers, retail, assembly, and wholesale applications improving processes and productivity while reducing operational costs. Whether providing consulting services to meet current issues or developing future scalable plans to address industry challenges, ISD creates value by designing systems to our clients' specific requirements. ISD expertise ranges from handling, storing, and picking pieces (eaches), cases, pallets, build lines, and special or custom handling solutions. Products and services include: automatic storage and retrieval (ASRS), conveyor, AMRs, robotics, batch stations, shuttles, pick-to-light, carousels, vertical lift modules (VLMs), sortation systems, truck loading/unloading systems, controls, software (including inventory management, WCS, WMS, MES, and ERP).ContactEd RomaineVP Marketing & Bus. Dev.215-512-2613eromaine@isddd.com

WIXOM, MI, August 2025 — ISD has launched OneTouchDistribution, a cutting-edge automation system designed to optimize order fulfillment for case, split-case, and pallet operations. By integrating state-of-the-art storage, retrieval, transportation and processing technologies, the system minimizes labor requirements, enhances accuracy, and maximizes facility space utilization.OneTouchDistribution provides a comprehensive approach to warehouse automation, offering a seamless process from inbound receipt to outbound fulfillment. The system significantly reduces labor requirements by automating receiving, storage and order processing.By leveraging advanced tracking and sequencing, OneTouchDistribution ensures 99.9% percent pick and inventory accuracy while maintaining high throughput, even during peak demand periods. The system’s high-density design allows for the storage of hundreds of thousands of cases or split-case products in a compact footprint, making it an ideal solution for facilities looking to maximize operational efficiency without expanding their physical space."OneTouchDistribution was designed with flexibility and agility at its core," said Ed Romaine, VP of Marketing at ISD. "Every operation has unique challenges, and our system adapts to those needs… whether handling cases, split-cases, or pallets. It allows businesses to scale seamlessly, adjust to shifting demand, and optimize order fulfillment without disruptions. This level of adaptability ensures our clients maintain efficiency, accuracy, and speed, even in the most dynamic distribution environments."The system automates inbound processing by receiving products through lift trucks, autonomous mobile robots, humanoids or Cobots. Once received, items are scanned, recorded, and directed into an automated storage and retrieval system that organizes and tracks each product in real time.Orders are processed based on specific sequencing and fulfillment requirements, ensuring that inventory is retrieved in the optimal sequence for downstream operations. Retrieved products are sent to fully automated or semi-automated picking stations, where they are either picked and sent to a cartonizing area for split-case processing, directly routed to a sorter for case picking or delivered to palletizing and/or an outbound staging area for final shipping.OneTouchDistribution is designed to support a wide range of industries, including food service, ecommerce, pharmaceuticals, industrial distribution, reverse logistics and third-party logistics. Its scalable architecture allows for phased implementation, enabling businesses to integrate automation at their own pace while maintaining ongoing operations.The system’s ability to handle full-case, split-case and pallet orders within a single platform adds to its versatility, making it a viable solution for distribution centers with diverse fulfillment requirements.The system also offers flexibility in order sequencing, allowing products to be picked and processed in a precise order based on weight, fragility, delivery requirements, order cut-off times, and customer preferences. Automated scanning and labeling ensure complete validation before orders leave the facility, reducing errors and increasing efficiency. Likewise, document printers and inserters can be easily integrated into the OneTouchDistribution system for increased revenue generation and reduced labor.With a focus on space optimization, the system minimizes wasted storage areas and maximizes available cubic space, creating a more efficient and cost-effective distribution process.About Integrated Systems Design - ISDIntegrated Systems Design is a comprehensive systems integrator of automated solutions for warehouses, manufacturing, distribution, retail, and wholesale applications, improving processes and productivity while reducing operational costs. Whether providing consulting services to meet current issues or developing future scalable plans to address industry challenges, ISD creates value for a broad range of industries by tailoring systems to clients' specific requirements.ISD expertise ranges from handling, storing, and picking pieces (eaches), cases, pallets, build lines, and special or custom handling solutions. Products and services include automatic storage and retrieval (ASRS), AMR, conveyor, robotics, batch stations, shuttles, pick-to-light, carousels, vertical lift modules (VLMs), controls, and software (including inventory management, WCS, WMS, and MES).ContactEd RomaineVP Marketing & Business Development215-512-2613

While customer demand for device management solutions continues to surge, Brendamour's partnership has allowed ARC to meet that demand head-on and effectively scale its operations to meet clients' needs.For any business, tools that can improve employee efficiency are highly valued. This is particularly the case for companies investing in handheld devices, such as Zebra Technologies, Honeywell, Samsung and other scanners. This explains why the demand for ChargeItSpot's ARC (Asset Recharge Center) device management integrated with smart lockers has been growing so fast.Businesses that provide employees handheld devices are experiencing significant shrink of these devices, often exceeding rates of 20% per year due to loss and theft.The ARC kiosks allow organizations to more efficiently track and manage handheld devices, which has helped to reduce device shrink to around 1%."If a client is paying over $1,000 each for these handheld devices and we can reduce the number of devices they need per store by 20% or 30%, and they have hundreds or thousands of stores, you can see where those numbers add up very quickly," Robert Kay, ARC's senior vice president of operations, said in a phone interview.The Philadelphia-based company developed its ARC product during the pandemic in response to client concerns.Meeting client needs"Our clients were telling us they had issues with managing handheld devices at their facilities," Kay said. "We responded to their needs by developing a kiosk and a software-based management platform that reduces shrink, reduces managerial oversight time and increases employee productivity."The platform generates reports that show how many handheld devices are checked out, how many are checked in, how long they are checked out, which employees are using them, and importantly, which employees have not returned a handheld device that they checked out.On the touchscreen, the user can report any issues with the handheld devices, such as a cracked screen or an uncharged battery. If a device is not functioning properly, that gets escalated automatically to a supervisor or the IT department as requested by the client.The most obvious benefits the ARC offers, Kay noted, are visibility and control. Allowing managers to have actionable insights into what's really going on with their assets has proven to have an impact on the business' bottom line.A more long-term benefit, however, is overall improved operational efficiency.Clients often overstock devices because so many remain nonfunctioning and also don't always know the optimal number of handheld devices they need at the premises. With ARC's ability to immediately flag faulty devices for repair and generate insights on specific device quantity needs on a location level, it allows companies to save money by right-sizing their device fleet.Logistics partnershipARC, in its efforts to fine tune efficiencies for its customers, recently combined the delivery and installation functions for its kiosks into one service instead of two. This has been accomplished through a partnership with Brendamour Logistics, a logistics provider that specializes in full truck load deliveries, with a focus on self-serve kiosks.Unlike other logistics companies, Brendamour employs drivers trained in kiosk installation who can install the kiosk at the time of delivery. This cuts a two-step process in half."They're delivering and installing at the same time," Kay said. "It's a much more efficient and cost-effective way to install our kiosks."Previously, ARC used "less than truckload" (known as "LTL") companies for deliveries. The kiosks would arrive two or three days prior to the installation.The Brendamour driver, on the other hand, goes out with a full truck to make deliveries and installations, then returns with an empty truck."We know each week when the deliveries are going out, and when I say deliveries, I also mean installations," Kay said. "By having it delivered and installed at the same time, we don't have to worry about our kiosks sitting on one of our clients' loading docks or sitting in a warehouse for two or three days…and possibly getting damaged."Also, we don't have to coordinate with two companies, because from time to time with LTL shipments, you can have delays. And then you have to reach out to the installer and let them know that, 'Oh, these kiosks weren't delivered to this location. You're going to have to skip this or come back to it or dispatch a technician a week later.'"At the start of the partnership, ARC sent senior technicians to Brendamour's facility in Cincinnati with a demo kiosk to train Brendamour's driver/technicians on how to install an ARC kiosk."We could tell right away they understood technology," Kay said for Brendamour. "They're used to installing kiosks. As an operations person, I like the fact that they [Brendamour] just get it done."Logistics partner considerationsWhen looking for a logistics provider, Kay looks at the following considerations: How quickly can they convey the information and have them perform the service? Do they have the trucks available? Can they meet our delivery and installation schedule? Does it make sense financially? The kiosks typically get shipped from the manufacturer to the client, reducing the need for warehousing. A certain amount of inventory is housed at the company's Philadelphia warehouse while some is warehoused at Brendamour's Cincinnati headquarters.Kay's biggest surprise has been the extent of the post-COVID business rebound."Post COVID things are going gangbusters," he said. It has surpassed pre-COVID levels "considerably."While customer demand for device management solutions continues to surge, Brendamour's partnership has allowed ARC to meet that demand head-on and effectively scale its operations to meet the needs of its biggest clients.About ARC by ChargeItSpotARC® (Asset Recharge Center) is a leading smart-locker system for managing company-owned handheld devices that employees use to do their jobs. Handheld devices are a critical productivity driver for team members. When these devices go missing, become non-functional, or consume too much time from managers overseeing manual processes, productivity slows, time and money are lost, and employee and customer satisfaction drops. ARC’s tech-enabled solution has allowed clients to save time, money, and improved productivity surrounding this complex retail problem.Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, ARC is a division of ChargeItSpot. Since its founding in 2011, ChargeItSpot has managed millions of consumer and associate devices within the world’s largest brands. To learn more, visit ExperienceARC.com.ContactARCHeidi DavidsonGalvanize Worldwideheidi@galvanizeworldwide.com(914) 441-6862

Since 1953 Park Industries, located in St. Cloud, MN has manufactured stone working machines that cut, polish and edge stone into slabs for commercial and home use. Knowing they needed to expand warehouse efficiencies to support their growth, Park Industries turned to automation. The warehouse today has 4 Shuttle XP Vertical Lift Modules (VLMs) from Kardex Remstar; with pick to light technology integrated Power Pick Global (PPG) inventory management software.[caption id="attachment_10492" align="aligncenter" width="485"] Click Image to See Video[/caption]

TSC is one of Canada’s most innovative retailers offering over 15,000 quality products – including health & beauty, jewelry, fashion accessories and electronics. . Jewelry needed a flexible order fulfillment solution that could scale to handle demand peaks, but also work efficiently during slower periods. Now, three Megamat RSs combined with Power Pick Global (PPG) inventory management software are used to manage the jewelry and coin inventory.

Park Industries in St. Cloud, MN manufactures stone working machines that cut, polish and edge stone into slabs for commercial and home use. To accommodate growth, they installed four Vertical Lift Module Shuttle XPs with Power Pick Global (PPG) inventory management software. Park Industries boasts over 5,000+ unique machine parts in stock with a next day delivery guarantee. This level of commitment requires a highly organized and efficient warehouse.