The APACHE portal system
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portal Eagle-eye beware. The steely and generally four-footed Indians from the company AKL-tec have been in use for seamless freight scanning and accurate documentation from as early as 1996. The APACHE portal system as a freight checkpoint including volume measurement, scales and photography, is the most successful member of the family. The freight is carried to the checkpoint by a forklift, a handoperated lifting car or an electric lifting car. There it is placed on a platform scales and APACHE portal’s sharp eyes are already putting the object accurately under the magnifying glass. The length, breadth, height, loading aid, volume, weight and photograph are displayed, stored and documented. In forwarding, APACHE portal provides the exact freight data for delivery notes and tracking the consignment. For logistics service-providers such as forwarders, in air-freight companies and airlines, the alert Indian assists with tracking down freight that has been declared too light. For example, if pieces of freight are “bulky”, i.e. their volumes are exaggerated in comparison with their weight, logistics companies and dispatchers need to talk to each other urgently. APAHE shows the way to do this. This hidden bulkiness and low declarations, as well as their transparency and accuracy in particular, have led to considerable additional income for many APACHE users. Flexible installations, the simplest operation and intelligent add-on modules in hardware and software, as well as fully developed interfaces to superposed systems have made the integration of portal scanners real success stories. Many references and more than eight years of experience associated with several hundred new ideas and expansions make APACHE portal a true all-round performer in freight scanning and documentation.

Technical properties of the system: Scanning field Scanning height Scanning time 5 s bzw. 8 s, dependent on the scanning field Scanning process Two infrared scanners (compartment scanners) are moved along two linear guides over the freight to be scanned, including the carrier. Seamless scanning occurs during the movement on the rails Scanning accuracy Length and breadth of the smallest surrounding block (cardboard) Height of the smallest surrounding block Platform scales Weighing platform: 2.5 m x 2.5 m or 2.5 m x 2.0 m or 2.0 m x 2.0 m Measuring range: 0…3,000 kg APACHE portal computer...