The Problem: This distribution company uses a conveyor system that runs throughout the entire facility. Maintenance employees would regularly be climbing and walking all along the conveyors in order to clear jam‐ups as well as to maintain the equipment. The Solution:...
Facing an uphill challenge doesn’t make many people sweat at an environmental sewage pump manufacturer in the northeast. In fact, it’s what they deal with every day. As a manufacturer of sewage grinding pumps and septic systems, many residential and light commercial...
Risk taking is familiar business to Renegage/Kibbi, LLC. Excluded from an RV show in 1997 for not being a member of the presenting organization, Kibbi set up shop in the parking lot. Dubbing themselves “Renegades”, the moniker sticks more than a decade later. Renegade...
Application This customer was a manufacturer who received a multi-year contract from a large national retailer to supply retail products for regional distribution centers. The manufacturer was required to build individual pallet orders on a per-store basis for...
The Application: A machining station at a manufacturing plant for recreational sport vehicles starts with a raw steel casting and loads it into a machine for cutting, shaping and refinement of what will become flywheels for assembly. The raw castings arrive at the...
A Company that manufactures food processing machinery was looking to improve their production processes. Ergonomic justification was the goal of the project along with safety and protection of the machinery in the cell. In this application, the workers were required...
Gorbel’s Easy Arm™ has made loading and unloading two test stands in different work cells much easier for this pump manufacturer. Application: Loading Test Stands This pump manufacturer was looking for a safe and efficient way to load and unload pumps from test stands...
Background A turbine motor overhaul center receives engines that are used in oil and gas industries, power generation and military use. When the turbines are received, they have been in use for long periods of time and are in need of repair and refurbishing. The...
Hawe North America was an existing Gorbel user when they discovered they had a problem with a new product assembly workflow. This new work cell required workers to “pick and place” large parts during the assembly process of hydraulic power units. The power units...
Application: Loading Web Film into Machines This manufacturer makes plastic products used in the pharmaceutical and medical industries. Workers teamed up to load rolls of web plastic packaging material weighing 150 to 250 lbs. into machines 4 to 5 times each day....
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