Behind-the-scenes look at Amazon's newest European warehouse
Amazon announced in August that it was opening the new 550,000 square foot distribution centre in Nottinghamshire, with more than 1,000 jobs brought to the area. As Amazon prepares for the Christmas period, employees, robots and automated machines can be seen hard at work ensuring tens of thousands of items were shipped out to customers.
Here are some behind-the-scenes photos which show how Amazon’s newest Nottinghamshire (UK) hub called Summit Park in Sutton-in-Ashfield. (Thanks to Andrew Topping for all photos)
Amazon Robotics machines can be seen patrolling the upper floors of the warehouse, following sensor tracks to transport shelves of stock to pickers who stand at their own work stations. Items are then placed into 'tote boxes' before being moved via conveyor belt through the centre. They are sent to packers who then move the items on, before they go through an automated machine which stamps the correct address labels on ready for shipping.
“We receive the inventory in from suppliers and it gets placed into a tote box, which gets stored in shelves upstairs. When a customer order is placed, the process moves to ‘pick’ and the robot brings the shelf to the picker, who picks the item and places it in another tote. That tote then gets placed on a conveyor and goes down to pack, it gets packed and then goes to our ‘slam’ where we provide a manifest. It then goes to shipping, gets on a truck and leaves the building. We also have singles pack, for people who ordered one item, and there is multi pack which can gather items from separate floors, put them in one shipment and send them out together.”
