Airport Industry
Reliability and Efficiency ensure your customers and their bags reach their destinations on time. Sumitomo gear reducers continue to drive the Airport Logistics Industry to new heights.
What Your Operation Is Up Against
Increased Passenger and Baggage Volume
- Airport baggage handling systems must operate continuously to support flight schedules and minimize passenger disruptions making reliability an essential to maintaining operational efficiency.
- As airports expand capacity, baggage handling systems must move more bags with greater speed and accuracy while maintaining service quality.
Aging Equipment & Maintenance
- Many airports are upgrading legacy baggage handling and passenger boarding bridge systems while maintaining ongoing operations.
- Reliable drive solutions that integrate easily into retrofit projects are critical for minimizing disruption and extending equipment life.
Energy Efficiency Initiatives
- Airports continue investing in sustainability programs and seek technologies that reduce power consumption without sacrificing throughput.
How We Serve the Airport Industry
Reliable Performance
Delivers round-the-clock performance for baggage handling and passenger boarding bridges using highly efficient, durable drive and gear technologies
Reduced Downtime & Easy Maintenance
Low-maintenance, easy-to-commission, and user-friendly products designed to lower overall lifecycle upkeep costs.
Simplified Inventory Management
Minimizes the need for extensive spare parts inventory by reducing the required number of drive model variants across operations.
Cross-Industry Collaboration
Collaborates with OEMs, integrators, and operators for critical equipment like baggage systems and passenger boarding bridges.
Navigate Solutions by Application
From moving walkways to boarding bridges to the most complex baggage handling systems - we provide the industry's premium lineup for your application. Sumitomo Drive Technologies offers standard drives as well as custom engineered drive solutions for all types of airport logistic applications. Our gear drives are highly efficient and extremely quiet, ideal for the airport industry.
Baggage Check-In & Induction
Check-in/Conveyors
Check-in conveyors weigh, tag, and transport passenger luggage from terminal desks directly into the airport's automated baggage handling system.
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Bag Acceptance Systems
Bag acceptance systems verify, weigh, tag, and screen passenger luggage at check-in before introducing it into the main baggage network.
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Feed Conveyors
Feed conveyors meter, merge, and align luggage onto high-speed sorting lines to ensure smooth, continuous flow through airport baggage systems.
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Baggage Transport & Conveyance
Mainline Conveyors
Mainline conveyors serve as the primary transport backbone, moving high volumes of baggage across long distances between terminal zones.
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Accumulation Conveyors
Accumulation conveyors hold and queue luggage without stopping upstream flow, preventing bottlenecks and buffering bags for downstream sorting.
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Transfer Conveyors
Transfer conveyors reroute luggage between different belts, lines, or security checkpoints to ensure seamless directional shifts in baggage systems.
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Merge Conveyors
Merge conveyors combine luggage from multiple feeder belts into a single, synchronized stream to maintain efficient, collision-free baggage flow..
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Security Screening & Sortation
Screening Conveyors
Screening conveyors move luggage through TSA/security scanners and automatically divert suspicious bags for inspection without delaying flow.
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Sortation Systems
Sortation systems automatically identify, route, and direct luggage to specific flight chutes using high-speed diverters and barcode scanners.
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Diverters
Diverters automatically push or tilt luggage off high-speed mainlines onto specific flight chutes or inspection belts based on barcode scans.
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Merge Systems
Merge systems combine baggage streams from multiple input lines into a single, synchronized conveyor flow using gap control to avoid collisions.
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Passenger Boarding Bridges
Tunnel extension/retraction drives
Tunnel extension/retraction drives move passenger boarding bridge corridors back and forth to match the exact length needed for aircraft docking.
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Elevation Adjustment systems
Elevation adjustment systems raise or lower passenger boarding bridges to align the corridor floor perfectly with aircraft doors of varying heights.
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Rotational Positioning Systems
Rotational positioning systems pivot passenger boarding bridges horizontally, aligning the bridge structure precisely with the aircraft door angle.
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Auxiliary Bridge Movement Systems
Auxiliary bridge movement systems drive secondary adjustments, like cab rotation and auto-leveling, to ensure precise, safe docking at aircraft doors.
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Airport Solutions in Action
Every application has its own challenges, and choosing the right solution requires confidence in both the product and the team behind it. Our customer stories show how we work through real requirements, real environments, and real operating demands to deliver solutions built for the job.
Sumitomo Gearmotors in Baggage Handling Applications
Baggage handling requirements worldwide are becoming more and more demanding. Manufacturers of both conveyor systems, as well as system components such as power transmission gearmotors must meet progressively more robust specifications in order to be competitive in a global market. Drivers of these initiatives include customers and increased demand for better service, security needs, and pressure for virtually maintenance-free industrial machinery.
Resources to Support You
Review our Airport Industry brochure for more information on our industry solutions.
Connected Drive Solutions
Speak With our Industry Specialist
Ryan Romero
Airport | Intrologistics
Ryan Romero is the Corporate Industry Manager for Intralogistics at Sumitomo Machinery Corporation of America. He collaborates with airport baggage handling OEMs, system integrators, and end users to deliver reliable drive solutions that improve uptime, efficiency, and overall system performance.
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Phone 1-757-660-3654