The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted the stay-at-home economy and raised consumers’ willingness to go e-shopping. As a share of global total retail sales e-commerce has increased by 16% since the beginning of the epidemic in 2021, and the emerging market has grown by over 50%. To enhance the consumer experience, logistics plays a key role in parcel transportation, which contributes to a smooth parcel journey.

As demand can grow rapidly in a short period, most logistics companies are not able to expand their hardware accordingly. To keep up with progress, many have turned their focus toward smart logistics and look forward to leveraging sensing, decision optimization, system integration, and real-time feedback of new technologies, which would upgrade their transportation scale and create extra value for their industrial transformation. Regarding this evolution, Delta provides multiple smart logistics solutions for the key processes of receiving, unloading, conveyor handling, segregating, identification, sorting, and scan positioning to loading. By leveraging its long-term focus on industrial trends and practical applications, Delta helps logistics companies achieve smart management of intra logistics across the whole process to gain new business opportunities.

For the commonly seen telescopic belt conveyor at unloading ports, Delta not only offers a solution integrating the Compact Modular Mid-range PLC AS Series and Basic Compact Drive ME300 Series but also the Telescopic Belt Conveyor Integrated Drive LTC Series for specific markets. To meet local market requirements, the LTC Series offers easy operation and maintenance with a smaller electrical control cabinet and shorter parameter setting time. For the fundamental equipment in the logistics center, Delta provides a conveying solution with the ME300 Series, which features an excellent motor control algorithm to stably drive the conveyors and achieve less energy consumption under the same loading. This makes the solution environmentally sustainable and responds to carbon reduction trends.

Before parcels leave the logistics center, they go through a segregating process, which traditionally requires a large amount of manpower. To enhance efficiency, Delta has introduced a parcel singulator solution integrating the AS Series and AC Servo Drive & Motor ASDA-B3 Series, which is capable of stable operation of up to 64-axis matrix conveyors and has random parcels placed in order. During the identification process, Delta’s solution employs the AS Series as the main controller. It can measure moving parcels to enhance traceability, accuracy, and efficiency. In addition, Delta provides a high-speed swim arm diverter, swivel wheel diverter, modular conveyor, and carbel sorting solutions to distribute parcels to the right routes based on the collected information. Among the multiple solutions, the Modular Conveyor Sorting Solution employs the PC-based Motion Controller AX-8 Series to quickly implement the system through EtherCAT and it supports online troubleshooting. The Carbel Sorting Solution also supports EtherNET/IP for easy implementation and tuning to satisfy onsite requirements.

In the post-pandemic era, logistics is expected to be a core competitive feature. The easy issue of delivering parcels fast, conveniently, and in order has become a new business opportunity and industrial battlefield. Delta Smart Logistics Solutions cover the whole process of intra logistics and help logistics companies optimize every stage in just one stop for a new, more efficient logistics approach.
Delta provides a solution integrating the Compact Modular Mid-range PLC AS Series and Basic Compact Drive ME300 Series for telescopic belt conveyor machines. For local requirements in specific markets, Delta introduced the Telescopic Belt Conveyor Integrated Drive LTC Series that shrinks the size of the electric control cabinet.