After gaining experience on the Schiphol Airport baggage handling system, I spent some time in Veghel to work with Vanderlande Industries on the new baggage handling system that was to be built for Heathrow Terminal 5. At the time one of the largest construction projects in the UK and to date the largest freestanding building in the UK.
In may of 2008 I moved to London to work on testing and integrating various IBM-built systems with the Vanderlande-built baggage handling equipment to create a state-of-the-art baggage handling system underneath the enormous terminal building. The attached video shares a look inside the system, unfortunately there is no sound, but you’l be able to get the idea.
The Discovery Channel ran a series Big, Bigger, Biggest in which one of the episodes showed the construction and inner workings of the new terminal and the baggage system in particular. Unfortunately, it is not available online freely to watch for everyone, hence no link.
