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U.S. Mail Sorting System by Scio SystemsNetworked LynxOS-powered FMPCS computers automate United States Postal Service (USPS) mail sorting equipment
Scio Systems' Fixed Mechanization Process Control System (FMPCS), is a hardware-software solution that is used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) for sorting at its bulk-mail centers (BMCs). A typical FMPCS-controlled primary parcel sorter is a carrousel tilt-tray sorter approximately 1,600 feet long and contains 120 chutes that feed conveyor belts leading to truck docks, slides, or other sorters. A sorter may include roughly 700 trays. Mail volume at a typical BMC is so large that many USPS sorters run around the clock.
LynxOS®-powered FMPCSs are used for controlling USPS sack, parcel, and large parcel sorting machines; timeshare conveyor systems; and specialized induction systems. FMPCS software also controls belt-type sorters, shoe-type sorters and a 'towveyor' system that transports wheeled containers around the facilities. FMPCS computers communicate with each other over an Ethernet local-area network using TCP/IP-based protocols.
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