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Demag KBK Enclosed Track Crane with Manipulator Arm.
Installation of front and rear axles at a compact car assembly plant required a custom designed handling system that could safely lift, transfer and manipulate these awkward parts into the correct position for installation. The Solution: A custom designed air powered manipulator arm was designed and suspended from a KBK ERGO Enclosed Track Double Girder Crane.
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3-Aisle Mini Load AS/RS Improves Upon Manual Pre-Shipping Buffering Process
In a medical client distribution center, custom kits containing surgery instruments and implantable parts are assembled and shipped daily. Before automating the pre-shipping buffering process, the client was challenged to meeting shipment deadlines due to the amount of labor involved in manually picking items from conventional racking and in delivering kits to the correct customer. In the company’s new facility, a three-aisle mini load AS/RS holds assembled and ready-to-ship kits.
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G-Force® Impresses Physician In Annual Injury Prevention Visit
A leading hydraulic cylinder manufacturer purchased a 1320 lb capacity G-Force® to handle their increasingly heavy products in the summer of 2009, and they knew they found a lifting solution that they could bank on for the future.
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Easy Arms Help Reduce Injuries AND Increase Productivity
When reviewing statistics from the previous year, the Safety Manager at an aluminum castings company in the northwest saw something he couldn’t ignore. Of all the injuries and complaints, 47% of them were the result of poor ergonomics. While looking for a lifting solution, the company saw a demonstration of Gorbel’s Easy Arm. The immediate response to the Easy Arm was so positive; the company decided the long term solution for this work cell was a 330 pound capacity unit.
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Demag KBK Enclosed Track Monorail Provides the Best Solution
A manufacturer of precision measuring equipment was looking for a way to remove test weights up to 1100 lbs from their calibration machine. The weights would need to be deposited and removed underneath overhead obstructions, in close proximity to the machine. A Demag KBK Curved Track Monorail System provided the best solution to this material handling application. Unlike a Crane or Jib, the Monorail could be installed from the existing overhead structure, without the need for adding extra support columns in the work zone.
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Articulating Jib Assists With Bridge Maintenance
Rather than closing down lanes on the bridge for several weeks the company had installed access platforms about 20 feet beneath where the bearing retrofit would take place at two locations. The access platform was the staging area for the project, with structural steel components, tools and other hardware coming from down below. Two articulating jib cranes were installed, one for each of the identical work areas. The 1000 pound capacity jib cranes measure 14’ of overall span (8’ for the primary arm, 6’ for the secondary).
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Custom Header/Column Connections Allows Wall to Wall Coverage In Small Machine Shop
A tool & machine shop owner's customer base was growing, and the parts he was running through his CNC lathes and milling machines were becoming larger and more diverse. A 500 pound capacity Gorbel work station bridge crane was installed. The system featured custom header to column connections, which brought the 16 foot, 11 inch runways right to the edge of room, allowing wall-to-wall coverage.
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Demag KBK Enclosed Track Stacker Crane System for Storage and Retrieval
A manufacturer of cutting dies and related machinery had an urgent need for a quality handling system capable of placing and retrieving equipment in storage racks. A Demag KBK Crane System with a KBK Stacker Mast provided a productive and cost effective solution for this task. The stacker mast with 360 degree rotation could easily pick or place any part into the racks on either side of the aisle.
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An 11-Story 100’ Tall Rack- Supported AS/RS Building Yields Many Benefits
America’s largest cookware company and the world’s second largest cookware manufacturing operation wanted to enhance the speed and efficiency of shipping a growing range of product to retail customers in the U.S., while maintaining control of operational costs. The company hired Daifuku America Corporation to tackle the challenges.
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A Music Dinner Lounge Gets a Lift
This music lounge serves up live music nightly with a seating capacity of 300 in the dining room and 1,625 in the main hall. Though the building was originally a warehouse, the dock wasn’t set up for the kind of traffic this tenant has to handle, and has only a 24” dock height on the existing building. That means a variety of vehicles pull up to the dock, ranging from refrigerated trailers to UPS trucks to laundry vans. The dock needed a versatile means to handle this variety of loads, so they decided to install two dock lifts.
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A Music Dinner Lounge Gets a Lift
This music lounge serves up live music nightly with a seating capacity of 300 in the dining room and 1,625 in the main hall. Though the building was originally a warehouse, the dock wasn’t set up for the kind of traffic this tenant has to handle, and has only a 24” dock height on the existing building. That means a variety of vehicles pull up to the dock, ranging from refrigerated trailers to UPS trucks to laundry vans. The dock needed a versatile means to handle this variety of loads, so they decided to install two dock lifts.
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State-of-the-art distribution center is a tribute to engineering and new technologies in warehousing
Retrotech Inc. was commissioned by a Fortune 50 consumer goods manufacturer to develop one of the world’s largest automated distribution centers using state-of-the-art technology. Retrotech employed a unique super high-density dynamic storage technology that buffers, sorts and pre-stages palletized unit loads. The system operates 24 hours per day and stages over 160 orders. It manages 109,000 pallet positions in one warehouse.
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Designing for Efficiency & Growth in 33’ High Warehouse Using AS/RS & WMS
A famous brand Greek yogurt producer has installed an Automated Storage and Retrieval System (AS/RS) with Warehouse Management Software (WMS) at their plant in Johnstown, NY. The single aisle AS/RS handles storage and order picking in the 35°F cooler warehouse. Originally designed to store 1600 pallets, the AS/RS was recently expanded to 4100 pallet positions.
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Two-Aisle Mini Load AS/RS Improves Inventory Control & Access to Spare Parts
A mining, smelting and refining company needed to improve the efficiency of its small spare parts operations. The company’s spare parts, including electronic components and heavy machine parts, were located at 20 sites and over many acres. To improve the process, the company added a hybrid system using automated and conventional material handling solutions. The mini load AS/RS holds a variety of parts stored in 3,312 rack locations.
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Konecranes ASRS Crane Facilitates Enzyme Blending and Storage for Biofuel Manufacturers
A leading bio-innovation company built a new indoor storage warehouse to receive and blend enzyme products. Konecranes implemented a crane-based automated storage and recovery system.
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Busting Up "Log-jams" With The G-Jib®
The fabrication area is where covers and guards for electronic controls are built in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. The most common components being moved are tubular and angled steel, which could be as light as 15-20 pounds or as heavy as 500 pounds. The problem was an overhead bridge crane was shared between multiple work bays causing production delays when more than one person needed to use it.
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Experienced Customer Chooses Work Station Cranes Over I-Beam Cranes
A regional provider of truck transmission, rear differentials and steering components was building a new facility for their transmission assembly. With several existing buildings and a variety of applications, the company had experience with several overhead lifting solutions. In other buildings workers were using and I-Beam crane to move transmission that weigh from 100-1000 lbs. in a final testing area. “It was wearing our people down”, said the Production Manager. “They were too much effort.”
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Single Aisle AS/RS Replaces Manual Picking Operation
A single aisle AS/RS ensures efficient, cost effective and secure product handling for a wholesale hardware company providing products such as bathroom fixtures, drawer slides, knobs, hooks, wall plates and more to home improvement stores in the US. The benefits included expanded warehouse capacity, a decrease in labor for value-added activities, secured expensive inventory and improved throughput.
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Wire Company Gets Productivity Jolt With Gorbel® Work Station Crane
A manufacturer of insulated power and control cables for use in consumer electronics, aerospace and petrochemical industries was experiencing a drag in productivity and risking injury in its “bunching” application. After exploring motorized lifts as well as jib cranes, the company decided that a Gorbel freestanding workstation bridge crane was the most attractive solution.
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EMH Gantry Simplifies Loading of Large Concrete Panels
A producer of architectural precast concrete wall panels operates a facility certified for A1 Architectural Concrete. The company needed overhead material handling equipment that could handle the different lengths of panels and rotate them 90 degrees to place them on flatbed trucks. The panels weigh 30 tons and more, and the company needed to load them in a more efficient manner.
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