Glossary → Induction station
Induction station.
the scan point where an item enters a sortation system
The point where an item is scanned and handed to a sorter, whether that sorter is a robot swarm, a cross-belt, or a chute line, and where the system learns what the item is and where it goes. Station count, not conveyor length or fleet size, is what caps throughput in robot sortation: the robots can only move what has been inducted. It is also where one bad label stops a piece and the queue behind it.