Production-proven 24V/48V motorized roller conveyor from the team that already knows your controls. Layout, fabricated steel, drive hardware, ZPA logic, installation and commissioning as one scope.
Sunshine State Automation now supplies MDR (motorized driven roller) conveyor as a complete offering: layout and zone design, hardware, ZPA controls, installation, and commissioning. MDR moves product only when product is there, cutting energy use, noise, and wear. And because every zone is independently driven and networked, the diagnostics and recovery you get from us on day one stay with your maintenance team for the life of the system.
Rollers spin only when a carton or tote is in the zone. Compared to continuously running belt or lineshaft conveyor, MDR systems routinely cut conveyor energy consumption by half or more.
Zone-by-zone ZPA comes native: no clutches, no air, no product-to-product contact. Gentle handling for cartons, totes, and polybags.
24V/48V DC at the roller. No chains, no sprockets, no exposed drives, no grease. A simpler lockout story and a safer walkway.
The spare-parts list is a roller and a driver card. Zone swaps take minutes, not millwright calls, and we train your team to do them.
MDR is modular by design. Add zones, re-route lanes, or extend lines without re-engineering a centralized drive.
Every zone is independently driven and networked. Faults point to a zone, not a mystery: the same clear diagnostics and guided recovery we build into all of our controls.
From a single accumulation lane to a facility-wide transport system, scoped against your real rates and product mix, not a catalog page.
The steel is not a mystery either. See how a bed gets built and what shows up on your dock →
NDW, a vertically integrated intralogistics manufacturer building drive rollers, motor controllers, sorters and power supplies at its own facilities since 1976, has named Sunshine State Automation its service partner and its number one preferred controls partner in the United States.
That designation is about controls, which is the part most conveyor projects get wrong. The hardware is excellent out of the box. Whether it holds rate on your floor comes down to zone logic, gapping, diagnostics and the handoffs to your WCS. That is the work we were recognized for, and it is the same work we do on systems we build ourselves.
Talk to a Controls PartnerMDR looks simple from a catalog page. What separates a line that holds rate from one that limps is the work below, decided at design time rather than discovered at startup.
Zone length set against your longest and shortest product, not a default. Get this wrong and you either lose accumulation density or you cannot singulate at the rate the sorter needs downstream.
Singulation, slug release, train release, and mixed behavior by lane. Each is a different logic set with different failure modes. We pick per zone based on what the downstream equipment can absorb.
Release timing calculated per carton so product arrives at the scanner and sorter with a consistent gap, without stopping the line to meter. This is where most throughput is won or lost.
Every zone independently driven and networked, so a fault points at a zone and a card rather than a general area. That is what turns a two-hour hunt into a three-minute swap.
Routing messages, carton tracking, divert confirmations, and the diagnostics to prove where an item went and why. We drive this through OIP, our own Operations Intelligence Platform, so order release, routing logic, and equipment control sit in one system instead of a stack of middleware. It talks to your ERP, host, or WMS, and it survives a restart mid-shift without losing the picture.
A defined kit of rollers, driver cards, and pre-configured zones on your shelf, so recovery is a parts swap by your own team instead of a purchase order and a wait.
Two lanes combining into one continuous stream on a system we scoped, installed, and commissioned. Zero-pressure accumulation upstream, dynamic gapping logic in the PLC timing every release so cartons land singulated with a consistent gap for the scanner and sorter downstream, and no operator standing there clearing jams. This is what the numbers above look like on a real floor.
Whether it's a single accumulation lane or a facility-wide transport system, we'll scope it against your real rates and product mix, not a catalog page.