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46) Solving Materials Handling Issues Begins at Home

When a busy plant in southern Arkansas hired a new manufacturing coach the production rate, as measured daily in person-hours per foot of conveyor section assembled, was averaging .250 ...

47) Manufacturer of Automotive Parts Reduces Back Injuries and Boosts Production

This company produces a wide variety of custom seals and gaskets for the automotive industry. After knitting, cutting, and performing, the preformed products are hand-picked from large ...

48) Pallet Level Loaders Provide Relief from Back Problems, Reduce Worker Fatigue and Speed Production

Bricks and related products come in a variety of types, designs, and colors. But they all have one thing in common: they are heavy. The manual work of loading pallets with finished ...

49) Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Streamlines Production Lines With Back Saving Hydraulic Roll On Level Loaders

A manufacturer of prescription drugs, recently added state- of-the-art work positioning tables to prevent back strain for its employees working on production lines. Since the addition ...

50) A Printer’s Dream: Equipment that makes Pallet Loading and Unloading Easier

This is about a book publisher in St. Paul, Minnesota that specializes in college text books and law books. At the company’ production and warehouse facility, pallet loads of books ...

51) An "Outside the Box" Solution Helps Increase Productivity for Electrical Enclosure Manufacture

A Midwestern manufacturer of electrical enclosures splits its time building both standard stock and high end custom enclosures for their customers, so they know what it’s like to go ...

52) DEMAG KBK Crane handles large panels in Automotive Plant

An automotive manufacturer needed a safe and ergonomic way to handle stamped metal panels. The large size and awkward shape of the panel presented challenges that were fully met by ...

53) Production In Work Cell Increases With Help Of Easy Arm®

A components supplier of commercial lawn mowing equipment installed a new press brake for forming sheet metal into the decks for large mowers. The brake bends the ends of pre-cut sheet ...

54) G-Force® Helps Company Become Ergonomically Friendly

An international distributor of sustainable, environmentally friendly office space had recently opened a new facility in the south, and was looking to optimize the safety of its employees ...

55) G-Force® Proves It Can Handle The Heat

A leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment was seeking a new solution for the handling of hydraulic cylinder pins during the heat treat process. In this application, ...

56) 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, ...

57) 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 ...

58) 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 ...

59) Custom Supports In Action: Custom Supports for Work Station Cranes Give Machine Shop Freedom & Flexibility

Just In Time CNC Machining was relocating and looking for a crane system that would service several CNC machines and the full selection of products without interfering with the current ...

60) Intelligent Lifting In Action: Damage & Injury Risk “virtually” Eliminated with Gorbel’s G-Force

Atlas Copoco needed a piece of equipment that was able to lift very heavy steel cylinders and place them with precision into the milling machine without damaging the part or the machine. ...