04 — Light it
Warehouse hardware that talks to your WMS.
Pick-to-light, put walls, directed put-away. Banner Engineering OEM components inside, our controller in the middle, your WMS on top. We handle the integration. Your team handles the install. No engineering firm in the middle.
The architecture
Three layers. One install. Your WMS on top.
Your WMS posts the pick. The Warehouse Bridge controller translates it into a light command. The Banner gateway drives the IP67-rated pick lights at the pick face. The operator presses confirm. The event flows back up to the WMS. That’s the whole loop.
The boundary between layer two and layer one is where our IP ends and Banner’s begins. Banner builds the lights. We build the bridge. When one of those lights stops working at 2am on a Friday, the replacement part is one purchase order away.
In partnership with Banner Engineering
The thesis
Hardware that’s part of a stack, not a silo.
Hardware on a warehouse floor has two failure modes. The enterprise option locks you into a six-figure install with a single vendor whose number you can never quite reach. The consumer option — a kit you bought online — works for six months, fails on a dusty Tuesday, and pings nothing in your WMS when it goes down. Neither is a serious answer for a working 3PL.
We sit in the middle of that gap on purpose. We use Banner Engineering components — the same parts the auto-OEMs and pharma plants run on their lines — because Banner builds for industrial duty cycles, not gadget cycles. IP67-rated. Twenty-four-seven operation. Replaceable modules when one finally does fail. We did not pick Banner because we like the logo. We picked Banner because when one of these lights stops working at 2 a.m. on a Friday, the replacement is one part number away and the WMS already knows.
What makes this different from any other Banner integrator is the second half of the sentence: our hardware talks to our software. Pick-to-light isn’t a standalone gadget — it’s a sensor in your visibility stack. Put-away isn’t a one-way light show — it’s slotting enforcement that pushes back into the Heatmap. That integration is what we sell. The hardware is how it shows up on the floor.
Three systems. One operating principle.
Pick one. Run all three. Each one earns the next.
Hardware
Pick-to-Light (PTL)
Banner-built pick lights at every pick face, driven by the Warehouse Bridge controller, integrated with your WMS. 30–50% faster picking, 99.9% accuracy, productive on day one.
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Put Walls (PTW)
Mixed-SKU batch picking sorted by lit cubbies. 40–60% faster sortation, zero cross-contamination, 3–5x batch size vs manual.
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Directed Put-Away
Light-directed receiving that enforces your slotting rules. Velocity-based, family-grouped, hazmat-segregated — receivers stop guessing, pickers stop hunting.
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Banner Engineering inside, by design.
The same Banner Engineering pick lights and gateways that run on auto-OEM lines and pharmaceutical packaging floors. IP67, industrial duty cycles, replaceable modules, decades of field reliability. Specifications and replacement parts are one purchase order away.
We’re not the cheapest hardware on the market. We’re the hardware that’s still working in five years, that integrates with your software, and that you can fix without us flying out.
Software-integrated
How the hardware augments the visibility tools.
- DockSnap + Hardware — sensors capture dock activity; DockSnap captures the paperwork. Same event stream, same dashboard.
- Warehouse Heatmap + Hardware — Heatmap recommends the slotting move; Directed Put-Away enforces it on the floor. The loop most operators have never had.
- Client Scorecard + Hardware — pick accuracy, sortation throughput, and per-client mis-events stream straight into the client-facing report.
How to choose
Not sure which system you need? Start here.
Most operators don’t need all three — they need the one that matches the bottleneck they’re already losing money on. Walk your floor for a day and notice where your team is searching, sorting, or second-guessing. That’s the one to install first. You can add the others when the first one earns its keep.
- If your pickers are searching for SKUs → start with Pick-to-Light.
- If your packers are sorting mixed batches manually → start with Put Walls.
- If your receivers are guessing where to put new stock → start with Directed Put-Away.
Or take the 60-second 3PL Operating Scorecard and we’ll point you at the one that fits your operation.
Talk to us about your warehouse.
Send us a few photos of your floor, your pick volumes, and what your WMS is. We’ll tell you which of these — if any — actually makes sense for you. No deck, no quote until we agree there’s a fit.