Automated Sortation Systems for Fast, Flexible Fulfillment
Modern distribution operations depend on fast, accurate sortation to keep orders moving. As volumes grow and order profiles become more complex, manual sorting quickly becomes a bottleneck.
Tompkins Robotics provides flexible robotic sortation systems that increase throughput, improve accuracy, and adapt to changing operational needs — helping you process more orders in less space and time.
How We Automate Sortation
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High Performance Robotic Sortation System
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Items or cases of any shape are inducted into tSort through induction stations and automatically scanned upon entry
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tSort robots route items based on your preset rules to destinations including totes, cartons, mailbags, or gaylords
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Items can be sorted from any induction station to any destination, removing the need to pre-sort based on order type
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Sort more than 50,000 items per hour to 6,000+ destinations within a compact footprint
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Flexible Facility-Wide Transport and Sorting
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Goods are placed on tSortPost robots from designated areas within your facility and automatically scanned
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The system handles flats, polybags, mail pieces, totes, and cartons
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Packages are transported to designated locations across your facility such as gaylords or bins
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Supports multi-point induction, parallel kit building, and real-time exception detection to reduce rework and improve accuracy
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Vertical Sortation for Efficient Space Use
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Items are inducted into tSort via tSortLift stations
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tSortLift moves items to up to five tSort levels
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Each tSortLift station inducts up to 1,200+ items per hour
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Items are transfered from the lifts to tSort robots
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Robots route items to destinations such as totes, cartons, or gaylords
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High-Density Robotic Putwall
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Items are sorted into tSort3D robotic putwalls
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tSort3D seamlessly integrates with tSort and other sortation systems
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Items are sorted into designated containers within the putwall based on your preset rules
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Completed containers can be removed individually or entire mobile putwalls can also be moved to packing when full
Benefits of Tompkins Robotics Sortation Systems

Increase Throughput
High-speed robotic sorting handles large volumes of items quickly while maintaining consistent performance

Sort a Wide Range of Item Types
Handle cartons, polybags, flats, totes, and irregular packages within the same system

Maximize Space Utilization
Compact, high-density systems allow you to sort more items per square foot without expanding your facility

Quickly Adept to Change
Quickly adjust sorting rules, destinations, and workflows without redesigning your infrastructure.

Scale Without Disruption
Add robots, destinations, or workstations as your operation grows — without interrupting daily operations

Eliminate Bottlenecks
Distributed robotic systems remove single points of failure and keep operations running smoothly
Sortation Comparison Series
Comparing Sortation Technologies
Side-by-side comparisons of tSort and every major sortation architecture, so you can pick the right system for your operation.
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Warehouse Sortation: 10 Sorter Types
A reference guide to every major sortation technology and where each one fits.
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tSort vs Tilt Tray Sorters
Same tilt-tray discharge, different architecture: a fixed conveyor track or a fleet of AMRs.
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tSort vs Loop Sorters
Tilt tray, cross belt, bombay, and pouch loops compared with AMR sortation.
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tSort vs Put Walls
Order consolidation or high-throughput sortation, and when the strongest operations run both.
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tSort vs Linear Sorters
Sliding shoe and conveyor diverts compared on product range, destinations, and flexibility.
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tSort vs Fixed Infrastructure
Concrete and steel or software and robots: what happens when something changes.
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Sortation vs ASRS
Two different jobs. Which bottleneck should you automate first?
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Automated vs Manual Sortation
The labor, error, and throughput signals that say it's time to automate.
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Explore Our Sortation Case Studies
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Let's Talk Automation
Our team can help you identify where robotic automation can make the biggest impact in your operation, from robotic sortation and product movement to autonomous pallet handling.


