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Ancra Systems specialises in designing and manufacturing of automatic truck (un)loading systems.
The company is located in Boxtel and supplies their systems worldwide.
With these systems, the (un)loading time of a full trailer is reduced from 30 to 45 to just 2 minutes
Automatic loading and unloading systems requires a system fixed at the loading dock
a system installed in the trailer and a system fixed at the unloading dock.
Ancra’s mechanical engineering department designed and tailored these systems to each client needs.
The electrical engineers programs the systems’ control.
Next, the systems’ components are assembled in the workshop in Boxtel.
Before the systems are installed at the customer they are tested at the Ancra facility.
The company has 20 years of experience and has realised projects in many different industries like
the automotive sector, post and parcel companies, air freight and FMCG industries.
The Ancra Systems team consists of 25 full time employees.
For large projects Ancra hires temporary staff.
The loading and unloading systems are typically used in
shuttle transportation between production and distribution centres.
As in the case of the shuttle transportation between the Heinkenen brewery and the HB Logistics warehouse in Den Bosch.
Eight automatic trailer loading systems, each consisting of 2 chain conveyor systems
are assembled on a shuttle car connected to three buffer conveyors.
This set up allows shuttle cars to take over the load from each of the buffer conveyors.
Laser-guided vehicles index the complete load onto the buffer conveyors.
Afterwards the loads are transported onto the shuttle cars and are ready to be loaded into the trailers.
At the arrival of a trailer, the IT-system provides the driver with a door number and PIN code.
After trailer's docking the driver connects power supply and communication cable to the dock system
and selects the PIN .
This code verifies that the correct trailer is docked to the right dock.
When the trailer is loaded with pallets with empty glass bottles,
the load will be unloaded onto the empty conveyor of the shuttle car.
Then the shuttle car moves sideways so the goods can be transported
onto an empty shuttle conveyor system.
The pallets are loaded with a speed of six meters per minute
Meanwhile, the incoming cargo is already discharged.
The door of the trailer and of the dock close again automatically, the cable is disconnected
and the semi trailer is ready to leave.
Inside the next load is prepared.
The complete loading and unloading of a trailer finished in just 8 minutes.
Its another fine product of Brabant soil, that we can be really proud of.