Modern Materials Handling - September 15, 1999
Features
Sideloading lift trucks
Sideloading lift trucks are designed for storing pallets in very narrow aisles at heights of 25 ft or more. Rotating masts or forks permit the truck to stack without tu
- CONVEYORS, AGVS, ROBOTS, AND OVERHEAD EQUIPMENT
- Powered monorails
- Skate-wheel conveyors
- Jib cranes
- Mast-equipped automatic guided vehicles
- Tow-line conveyors
- Slat conveyors
- Gantry robots
- Driverless tractor trains
- Trolley conveyors
- Hoists come in two
- Gantry cranes
- Power-and-free conveyors
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Low-maintenance motorized rollers save space
- Conveyors pump out health care products at Beiersdorf
- Integrating the old with the new
- Automated DC boosts flexibility, cuts bottlenecks
- Motor manufacturer moves to one-piece flow
- A fleet of AGVs keeps parts and equipment moving
- Smoother lift and tilt ups productivity
- Powered roller conveyor smoothes printer customization
- Shhhhh . . . conveyor system at work
- What you "see" is what you get
- Work station cranes avoid jogging
- Crane radio remotes increase operator safety
- AGV system upgrade increases flexibility
- Power-and-free conveyors help boost throughout
- AGVs link pharmaceutical process steps
- Operators get a lift
- DATA COLLECTION, SOFTWARE, AND CONTROLS
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- The book on Koen's weighing and cubing system
- Portable data terminals put fizz into Coke's order processing
- Putting data management power where it belongs
- Picking efficiency climbs 650% with WMS
- Faster package handling with wireless system
- Sara Lee Clothing gets dressed up with wireless system
- Computerized shipping-manifest system stacks up
- EDITORIAL
- INDUSTRIAL TRUCK EQUIPMENT: POWERED, NON-POWERED
- Walkie fork trucks
- Tow tractors
- Orderpicker trucks
- Walkie rider pallet trucks
- Counterbalanced lift trucks
- Sideloader trucks
- Reach trucks
- Manually propelled stacking trucks
- Walkie pallet trucks
- Balance-tilt floor trucks
- Electric-powered rider straddle trucks
- Pallet trucks or "pallet jacks"
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Companies team up to develop new vehicle
- Forklift fleet grows, maintenance costs shrink
- DC saves with more cost-effective orderpicker fleet
- Electric forklifts cut JIT supplier's downtime by 90%
- Pneumatic trucks handle heavy loads, outdoors and inside
- NA trucks double productivity
- Application Case Histories
- Beverage maker toasts a 30% hike in productivity
- Work assist vehicle facilitates picking
- Hot, sandy foundry equipped for uptime
- PACKAGING MACHINES AND MATERIALS
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Custom-designed containers generate savings
- New packaging ideas for a new plant
- A labeling problem solved
- Assembly costs cut with plastic containers
- Recycling containers serve "reverse vending" machines
- Automated strapping ends product pilferage
- Plastic pallets end conveyor jams
- Multi-line unitizer cuts packaging costs
- PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
- STORAGE SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Carton flow adds efficiency to Lear's seat assembly operations
- ESD cabinets enhance plant safety
- Something's afoot at New Balance
- Put-to-light systems speed order filling
- Flow rack boosts productivity
- A beauty of a storage system
- Ford dealer speeds parts delivery with vertical carousels
- Upgrade fits 55,000 parts into 28% less space
- Unit load AS/RS buffers more in less space
- AS/RS upgrade boosts throughput 50%
- Productivity climbs with adjustable, ergonomic workbenches
- Shelving safely stores long rolls of fabric, leather
- Cantilever racks allow traffic in narrow aisles
- Mezzanines: more than a steel deck
- EQUIPMENT SELECTION GUIDELINES
- Cantilever-style racks
- Storage/retrieval (S/R) machine
- Vertical carousels
- Horizontal carousels
- Drawer-style cabinets
- Open shelving
- YARD AND PLANT SERVICES EQUIPMENT
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