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RDS Warehouse
Control System, WCS

Intelligent data driven real-time control solution to automate and unify material handling automation in manufacturing and warehouse operations.

Robust and Scalable Warehouse Control System (WCS) Increases Productivity and Profitability

Numina Group’s Real-Time Distribution Solution, RDS™, is the leading Tier One real-time warehouse control system with a highly flexible real-time control environment that manages and controls a wide variety of equipment.

Flexible and Scalable

RDS is based on a micro-service development environment with dozens of pre-developed control modules and interfaces to rapidly connecting PLCs, Ethernet conveyor controls, sorting, order tracking control in a true real-time control engine for managing sensors, motors, barcode scanners, and camera inspection control decisions in under a 250 micro-second time window.

RDS track-and-control logic ensures never missing a beat in warehouse control applications providing the “Plant Floor Brain” that integrates and synchronizes the latest materials handling automation technologies with your warehouse management system.

The Numina Group brings 35 years of material handling automation experience to every project delivering customers design expertise and “rock solid” WCS performance and reliability that meets and exceeds the most demanding control performance specifications.

Comprehensive WCS Software & Support

We offer the convenience of working with one firm for end-to-end services, including warehouse design, WES superior control performance, software, conveyor system know-how, and guaranteed 24/7 support service.

RDS serves as the foundational warehouse control platform to improve and accelerate pick, pack, and ship processes that result in a fast ROI (return on investment).

Additionally, RDS WCS functionality is enhanced with warehouse execution functionality to provide advanced order release planning that optimizes material flow and traffic flow for maximum efficiency and lower labor costs.

High-Capacity for High-Volume Operations

RDS is a robust and modular warehouse automation software platform that scales from small and mid-size warehouse distribution centers to large, sophisticated 100,000 orders/day high-capacity warehouse environments. The system handles a million or more transactions per shift deployed on virtual servers, Google and Amazon Cloud computing environments.

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What is a Warehouse Control System?

A warehouse control system (WCS) is a software platform that coordinates and directs a wide range of warehouse receiving and fulfillment activities. The WCS is typically integrated with a warehouse management system (WMS) and/or enterprise resource planning system (ERP), as well as a wide range of warehouse automation technology including material handling equipment types such as conveyor systems, warehouse robots, carousels, automated storage and retrieval (ASRS) systems, sortation systems, palletizers and more. The WCS receives order and product information from the WMS/ERP system and coordinates the timing and tasks of the facility’s equipment and staff.

The Numina Group’s RDS WCS solution is differentiated by its advanced real-time control capabilities and added warehouse execution functionality, all on one unified platform.

Benefits of the Numina Group's Real-Time Warehouse Control System

RDS WES-WCS warehouse software is a sophisticated warehouse execution and conveyor automation control system that is proven to provide several significant benefits such as:

Numina employs skilled software developers and experienced engineers with thorough application knowledge of the most advanced intelligent conveyor systems available. RDS WES-WCS is proven in hundreds of installations and guaranteed to deliver in demanding applications with unsurpassed performance.

RDS WEC-WCS Family of Modules

RDS WES-WCS delivers true real-time warehouse execution and control in sub-milliseconds to a host of automated warehouse technologies including:

Order Release Optimization

RDS directs integrated order release to increase picking productivity above traditional methods.

Cartonization Software

RDS pre-selects the carton and polybag shipment sizes and directs picking to the right-sized carton, eliminating touches.

Victory Voice

Multi-modal voice picking enforces order picking rules combining Batch Carts, AMRs, fork trucks, and pick to conveyor processes.

AMR Robotic Picking

RDS synchronizes workers and autonomous mobile robots (AMR) picking tasks to increase picking efficiency by 30-50%.

Light-directed assembly, kitting, and picking achieves 350 lines or higher hourly pick rates per operator.

Put Wall Order Consolidation

RDS directs order consolidation synchronized with picking activities using put to light sorting systems.

ASRS - Mini Load Shuttle

RDS manages the latest ASRS and G2P technologies to increase facility storage capacity & reduce labor.

Pack Automation

RDS manages and streamlines packing operations by integrating inline packing, documentation insertion and order sealing.

Labor Tracking and Reporting

RDS includes workers’ real-time and historical activity performance reporting in warehouse tasks to user-settable work standards.

Scan-Weigh-Dimensioning (SWD)​

RDS controls inline dim weight verification for QC saving on shipping & preventing errors from leaving the DC.

Print and Apply Labeling

RDS automates the manifesting and application of pack slips, pack sheets, and shipping labels.

RDS manages returns and shipping sortation, including sweeper, tilt tray, cross-belt, Bombay, narrow belt, and shoe sorters.

GTP Automation

The latest generation of robotic G2P are cost-effective and scalable solutions, especially if the order profile consists of a large percentage of split case order volume.

Robotics

Numina’s RDS™ Batchbot™ solution combines warehouse voice picking technology and AMR batch pick carts, uniting people and robots working as guided vehicles to reduce labor costs and double order fulfillment productivity.

RDS brings together all the elements of your order fulfillment process, from basic data collection to sophisticated process optimization by managing product movement and material handling equipment with real-time control. RDS operates with real-time (sub-millisecond) multi-function control to execute tasks and business rules with automated material handling equipment.

Bridging the Gap

The RDS WCS platform integrates with any warehouse management system (WMS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, bridging the gap between your order entry, resource planning, and order fulfillment technologies.

RDS also includes easy-to-use, web-based diagnostics and user web screens, and API interfaces to all WMS and ERP system capabilities to significantly reduce our clients’ software development expenses.

Warehouse Design Expertise

Numina Group also provides warehouse design services to ensure that your warehouse operations have the most effective warehouse design to maximize efficiency and throughput while reducing labor costs.

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