Materials Handling Systems Blog

This customer fabricates countertops using granite and marble. In this application, workers at a new facility need to move huge slabs of granite from station to station through the various stages of the fabrication process. The slabs of granite are huge - weighing up...

A regional provider of truck transmissions, 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...

ABB US is a manufacturer of medium voltage switchgear, reclosers, and padmount switches at their Florida facility. The recloser is a circuit breaker with a mechanism designed to automatically close the breaker when a fault is detected. They are typically mounted on...

As the owner of a tool & machine shop, Rodney Fuller was running into some large problems. His customer base was growing, and the parts he was running through his CNC lathes and milling machines were becoming larger and more diverse. “A lot of the parts were...

This company manufactures industrial laundry machines. At their main factory, the large washers and dryers are built from the ground up, beginning with sheet metal formation all the way to completed products. The manufacturing process divides the factory floor into...

When an automobile manufacturer decided to build two different automobile models at one assembly plant in Turkey, they knew they needed to improve their processes. They had recently installed a system of G‐Force Q 660’s to solve a similar problem with cockpit loading...

This Canadian automotive manufacturer needed to add overhead lifting equipment to their facility that  had been converted from a warehouse to a manufacturing operation. They needed to be able to lift engines and transmissions onto a production line and then transfer...

A major tier one auto parts supplier stamps round sheet metal blanks into clutch hubs and clutch housings for automatic transmissions. The thin blanks range in diameter from 6- 14” and weigh up to 8 pounds each. They arrive in a bin and were being manually loaded into...

A leading manufacturer for the automotive industry was having problems with productivity due to worker fatigue and ergonomic issues. The work cell is in a raised platform. The distance of transport of the parts is about 10 ft. and the parts are lifted vertically a few...

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 we had, 47% of them were the result of poor ergonomics,” he said. “We wanted to...