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Automation upgrades reduce sortation system wiring and lower costs

Control Engineering

However, for large postal and parcel providers, e-commerce retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) companies, capital investments still need to make good business sense. Tracking information is communicated over EtherCAT to the controller, then via TCP/IP to NPI’s warehouse control system (WCS) software to determine the sort point.