Daifuku Airport Technologies Does It Again - Second Mobile Inspection Table (MIT) System Goes Live at CLE

Daifuku Airport Technologies (ATec), a leading provider of airport baggage handling systems, announced today, a new Mobile Inspection Table (MIT) system has gone live at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE). The new state of the art in-line baggage screening system is comprised of 31 MITs.

MITs are mobile robots that provide a customized solution for optimal flexibility and improved workspace efficiency. MITs are a quiet, safe, and scalable approach to the checked bag reconciliation area. MITs also offer a “goods to person” ergonomics approach by delivering bags directly to TSA (Transportation Security Administration) agents, eliminating lifting, twisting or turning. Bags are searched directly while on the MIT’s stainless-steel surface and routed automatically back to the appropriate conveyor system after inspection.

In addition, Daifuku’s Elite Line Services (ELS) subsidiary was awarded a four-year service contract to operate and maintain the entire baggage handling system which includes over 5,500 linear feet of conveyor. ELS will also maintain the MITs.

“Under the current system passengers had to take their luggage to a separate TSA baggage screening drop-off location. With completion of the new south end system passengers no longer need to take baggage to a second location,” said Airport Director Robert Kennedy. “This project is a big win for our airport guests as it streamlines the baggage check-in process. We are effectively going back to the more efficient way passengers handed off their baggage to airline personnel in the past.”

Daifuku ATec provides baggage handling systems and service at hundreds of airports globally.

About Daifuku Airport Technologies

Daifuku Airport Technologies is the global airport business division of Daifuku Co. Ltd., the world’s largest material handling company and leading provider of airport baggage handling systems such as BAGgate™ automated bag drop, Baggage Tray System, Tilt Tray Sorter, Standard 3 Integration, Mobile Inspection Table, WebbView®, Sym3 and Airflow G5. Daifuku Airport Technologies consists of BCS Group, Daifuku Logan, Elite Line Services, Jervis B. Webb Company and Logan Teleflex Inc. Daifuku Airport Technologies specializes in the design, engineering, manufacture, installation and servicing of airport systems globally.

WebbView is a registered trademark of Jervis B. Webb Company. BAGgate is a trademark of BCS Group.