Case Study: Tsubakimoto achieves 10,000-items-per-hour real-time sorting with Actian Zen

Tsubakimoto’s Material Handling System is capable of sorting up to 10,000 items per hour

Tsubakimoto, a global Japanese machinery maker, needed a high-speed registration and identification database to track and sort up to 10,000 items per hour in its conveyor-based sorting systems. The company had long relied on Actian’s database technology, using Btrieve, PSQL, and later Actian Zen, to meet strict millisecond-level response requirements for its material handling operations.

Actian implemented Actian Zen to support Tsubakimoto’s real-time data management needs with fast read/write performance and strong backward compatibility. The result has been more than 25 years of continuous use, with Actian Zen helping Tsubakimoto maintain high sorting speed and accuracy; the company reports it can process 10,000 items per hour and says Actian Zen is up to 5x faster than other SQL-based databases, saving time and resources.

Tsubakimoto

Shoji Nishimura

Advisor to the Information Technology Section of the Material Handling Project Management Division