Case Studies

406) Aerospace Company Solves Die Handling Problem

Placing dies into a CNC Machine can be a very cumbersome and potentially dangerous undertaking. Tight clearances on the machines add to the problem. An aerospace company had been using ...

407) Cranes Lift Aircraft Firms Productivity

An aircraft maintenance re-manufacturing plant in Canada needed a safer, more productive process for disassembling and reassembling turbine engine reduction gear boxes without product ...

408) Work Station Crane Solves Handling Problems

An automotive manufacturer in Canada needed a process for overhead material handling when their plant converted from a warehouse operation to a manufacturing operation. They chose Free ...

409) Addition of Work Station Crane Increases Productivity for Glass Mirror Manufacturer

A glass mirror manufacturer makes large mirrors for the furniture industry. In the packaging process of these mirrors, the large heavy (up to 300lbs.) sheets of glass must be lifted ...

410) Overhead Crane System Gives Worker Health a Lift

Heavy lifting on the production floor always invites back injuries, but when the rate of such maladies nears 30%, there are serious implications for worker morale, not to mention lost ...

411) CNH America – Tractor Tire Lift

Our customer CNH America, a global manufacturer of agriculture and construction equipment required a lift system in their tractor manufacturing location to raise their tractors weighing ...

412) Torklift to benefit the Arts

This custom built lift with its double long, extra wide platform and easy joystick control will allow the museum to transport their collection with ease and increase productivity for ...

413) Fixed Rail-Elevating Work Platform Shuttles and Slides

Autoquip engineered and designed a 72" travel Tork Lift on a powered drive base with a variable frequency drive system to allow for smooth operation. A 6 feet shuttle deck was added ...

414) Machine Guarding For a Medical Products Distribution Center

An international producer of surgical equipment, pharmaceuticals, and vision care products required machine guarding for two processing cells at its Huntington, WV facility. The customer ...

415) Specially Designed Wire Mesh Enclosure Elevates Security within a Distribution Center

A national chain of department stores recently upgraded the level of security at its New Jersey distribution center surrounding the packaging operation of its fashion jewelry and watches. ...

416) Polycarbonate Machine Guarding

An aerospace design and manufacturing company, creators of systems and components for virtually every aircraft flying today, had a safety issue in protecting employees from hazardous ...

417) Automatic Guided Vehicles Work Beside Employees in a Distrubtion Center

This AGV system provides all of the routine product movements to support a retail distribution center using a person to goods picking strategy. The guided vehicles move pallets (full ...

418) Automatic Guided Vehicle System Increases Efficiency

A fleet of three forked automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) transport, load and unload rolls of stripped and pasted newsprint from a semi automatic roll preparation station to six printing ...

419) Automation Optimizes Paper Warehouse needs

The system stores and retrieves paper rolls and pallets of sheeted paper in warehousing areas.

420) Laser Guided AGV System Delivers for a Major Food Manufacturer

A major food manufacturer was faced with an important decision. The performance of the wire guided automatic guided vehicle (AGV) system that had been installed over 10 years ago was ...