Brisbane City Council Libraries in Australia Chooses Tech Logic
White Bear Lake, MN - June 5, 2006 - A Tech Logic Automated Material Handling (AMH) sorting system will convey, check in, and sort hundreds of books per hour for the Brisbane City Council Libraries in Australia.
The system will be implemented in the new 37-story Brisbane Square facility, slated to become the social and cultural hub of Brisbane. The building will house the Brisbane Square library and customer and community center, Brisbane City Council's offices, retail facilities, and a public plaza. Opening is scheduled for this fall.
The Brisbane City Council Libraries' Tech Logic AMH system will use a HiIQ book placer system designed to automatically check books in, then sort them onto book trucks for easy reshelving. The system recognizes, tracks, and sorts the books by collection code. The HighIQ will have four loader/unloaders, six interagency bin sorts, and ten placer systems providing 180 sort locations to book trucks to handle the library's estimated circulation of 1 million items per year. The library will include 48 book trucks and 33 Interagency "Smart Bins." Smart Bins include photoelectric eyes on the interior to adjust the book bin floor up or down, depending on the book load. This saves library staff from having to reach deep into bins.
The AMH system will have a sizer-squarer system and book spine rotator. A new book drop will lead to approximately 75 feet of a conveyor system that will feed items into the library basement (saving space for public use on the main floor) where the sorting system will be located. Tech Logic's patented vertical sandwich conveyor will keep items on the conveyor belt when the conveyor is vertically inclined.
Brisbane City Council Libraries' new AMH system will utilize the library's current barcodes for check-in, and will accommodate future migration to RFID.
Tech Logic will provide all engineering, design, manufacturing, installation, training and support for this over $1 million project.
The new AMH system will help staff manage future growth in the new Brisbane Square Library and Customer Centre by reducing the physical work of retrieving and moving books.
Tech Logic worked with the Brisbane City Council's architects and library staff to design a system that will smoothly integrate with the new main library design.
Brisbane is Australia's third largest city.
About Tech Logic
Tech Logic designs, manufactures, and installs state-of-the art book drops, automated conveyor delivery systems, and inter-library distribution systems, as well as RFID and barcode checkin and self-checkout systems. The company's material handling systems have revolutionized the way materials move throughout a library and its branches. For more information, contact Gary W. Kirk at gwkirk@Tech-Logic.com, or call 800.494.9330.
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