The express delivery industry is one of the fastest growing areas of logistics automation. Logistics automation has experienced the development process of leading traditional industries such as tobacco to the rapid rise of the demand of e-commerce and express delivery industry. Especially in the express delivery industry, the rapid growth of express delivery business volume brought by the booming development of e-commerce makes manual sorting unable to meet the requirements of express delivery enterprises on capacity, time and cost. Under this background, express delivery has become one of the tracks with the fastest growth of automation applications.Intelligent sorting can reduce the cost of single ticket sorting and improve the ceiling of sorting ability. At the same time, the promotion of the utilization rate of single electronic surface provides external conditions for the popularization of intelligent sorting. After the rapid development in the past two years, there are more than 1,000 sets of cross-belts in the express industry. In the future, the market will be mainly supported by the advance planning of normal business volumes and the demand for replacement, and the market size is expected to reach 3.5 billion yuan end of 2021.

Intelligent sorting will expand to heavy cargo transportation and circulation enterprises in the future. With the further improvement of the penetration rate of home furnishing and household electricity and the increase of small batch and multiple order behavior, the fine sorting requirements of large express delivery and small bill will gradually break out; • In order to respond to consumer demand, terminal stores' orders will become more and more personalized and fragmented, and intelligent sorting will play a more important role in large distribution centers.

Traditional industry demand is stable, express and electricity industry demand rapid rise of tobacco, pharmaceutical, automobile, engineering machinery and other industries is the logistics automation application earlier downstream industry in our country, logistics is now the highest degree of automation of several industries, because these industries with large scale and complex production process, high information regulatory requirements, investment ability of common features.With the development of the new economy, express delivery and e-commerce have gradually replaced the traditional industries to become the industries with the fastest growth in the demand for logistics equipment. For example, in the past three years, the number of automatic three-dimensional storehouses maintained by e-commerce and express delivery enterprises has increased rapidly and its proportion in the whole industry has also increased steadily, while the share of traditional industries such as tobacco, medicine and automobile has decreased year by year.E-commerce enterprises pay more attention to the automation from the perspective of warehouse matching, involving the whole process of warehouse entry and exit, picking, packaging, etc., with high requirements for system integration, while express delivery enterprises mainly rely on the automation of sorting operation. The scene is simpler, and often meets the conditions of batch debugging and installation, so the application of automation is also more rapid.

Superposition of external conditions, internal demand, the intelligent sorting in the past two years has resulted in development on the one hand, the development of the electricity business of express delivery business, so that the operation of the sorting operation and complexity, the defect of manual sorting be amplified, thus stimulates the Courier companies through the layout of the intelligent sorting the needs of the transformation and upgrading.On the other hand, the improvement of the utilization rate of electronic surface sheets, the successful fund-raising of express delivery enterprises, and the rapid decline of the price of intelligent sorting equipment jointly provide external conditions for the popularization of intelligent sorting. Combined with internal demand and external conditions, the number of intelligent sorting devices installed in the express delivery field has exploded rapidly in the past two years.

From 2015 to 2019, China's online retail sales of physical goods achieved a compound growth rate of 27.3%, much higher than the 8.1% growth rate of the total amount of social media in the same period.Drified by online shopping and the emergence of e-commerce platforms with low unit price for customers such as Pinduoduo, China's express delivery volume has achieved a compound growth rate of 32.4% from 2015 to 2019, reaching 63.52 billion in 2019, of which e-commerce pieces account for more than 80%, and the majority of them are standard small pieces.Therefore, from the perspective of external factors, the huge business volume of e-commerce, consumers' requirements for logistics timeliness and merchants' high sensitivity to logistics costs stimulate the demand for cost reduction and efficiency improvement of express delivery industry, thus bringing intelligent sorting into the field of vision.

With higher volumes, sorting complexity greatly increased clearance routing and the increase in incoming network port and port sorting automation more urgent response to electricity development express delivery business, on the one hand, based on the limitation of priority, sorting and transport costs to two or morethings "principle, the express delivery enterprises increased steadily for three or four line city's straight line,On the other hand, in order to expand the terminal network coverage and reduce the pressure on some outlets, the primary outlets of express delivery companies show a trend of differentiation. Take ZTO as an example. From 2016 to 2019, the number of trunk transportation lines increased from 1,980 to 2,600, and the number of first-level outlets increased from 3,600 to 4,800.The continuous expansion of trunk routes and terminal networks increases the complexity of manual sorting, which makes the demand for automatic sorting more urgent for express enterprises.

Intelligent sorting mainly has the advantages of reducing costs, improving productivity and improving accuracy

Express delivery business and operation complexity ascension enables manual sorting and semi automatic sorting in terms of cost, efficiency and accuracy are insufficient, and intelligent sorting although the initial investment is high, the space requirement is high, the lack of flexibility, but it can effectively cope with the challenges faced by manual sorting, become express enterprise improve the competitiveness of rigid demand, Therefore, express delivery enterprises have chosen automation after comprehensive consideration.