Modern Materials Handling - September 15, 1999
- CONVEYORS, AGVS, ROBOTS, AND OVERHEAD EQUIPMENT
- Gantry cranes
- Trolley conveyors
- Driverless tractor trains
- Gantry robots
- Slat conveyors
- Tow-line conveyors
- Mast-equipped automatic guided vehicles
- Jib cranes
- Skate-wheel conveyors
- Powered monorails
- Power-and-free conveyors
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- AGVs link pharmaceutical process steps
- Power-and-free conveyors help boost throughout
- AGV system upgrade increases flexibility
- Crane radio remotes increase operator safety
- Work station cranes avoid jogging
- What you "see" is what you get
- Shhhhh . . . conveyor system at work
- Powered roller conveyor smoothes printer customization
- Smoother lift and tilt ups productivity
- A fleet of AGVs keeps parts and equipment moving
- Motor manufacturer moves to one-piece flow
- Automated DC boosts flexibility, cuts bottlenecks
- Integrating the old with the new
- Conveyors pump out health care products at Beiersdorf
- Low-maintenance motorized rollers save space
- Operators get a lift
- DATA COLLECTION, SOFTWARE, AND CONTROLS
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Sara Lee Clothing gets dressed up with wireless system
- Computerized shipping-manifest system stacks up
- Faster package handling with wireless system
- Picking efficiency climbs 650% with WMS
- Putting data management power where it belongs
- Portable data terminals put fizz into Coke's order processing
- The book on Koen's weighing and cubing system
- EDITORIAL
- INDUSTRIAL TRUCK EQUIPMENT: POWERED, NON-POWERED
- Electric-powered rider straddle trucks
- Pallet trucks or "pallet jacks"
- Balance-tilt floor trucks
- Walkie pallet trucks
- Manually propelled stacking trucks
- Reach trucks
- Sideloader trucks
- Counterbalanced lift trucks
- Walkie rider pallet trucks
- Orderpicker trucks
- Tow tractors
- Walkie fork trucks
- Sideloading lift trucks
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Pneumatic trucks handle heavy loads, outdoors and inside
- Electric forklifts cut JIT supplier's downtime by 90%
- DC saves with more cost-effective orderpicker fleet
- Forklift fleet grows, maintenance costs shrink
- Companies team up to develop new vehicle
- NA trucks double productivity
- Application Case Histories
- Hot, sandy foundry equipped for uptime
- Work assist vehicle facilitates picking
- Beverage maker toasts a 30% hike in productivity
- PACKAGING MACHINES AND MATERIALS
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Plastic pallets end conveyor jams
- Automated strapping ends product pilferage
- Recycling containers serve "reverse vending" machines
- Assembly costs cut with plastic containers
- A labeling problem solved
- New packaging ideas for a new plant
- Custom-designed containers generate savings
- Multi-line unitizer cuts packaging costs
- PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS
- STORAGE SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT
- APPLICATION CASE HISTORIES
- Cantilever racks allow traffic in narrow aisles
- Shelving safely stores long rolls of fabric, leather
- Productivity climbs with adjustable, ergonomic workbenches
- AS/RS upgrade boosts throughput 50%
- Unit load AS/RS buffers more in less space
- Upgrade fits 55,000 parts into 28% less space
- Ford dealer speeds parts delivery with vertical carousels
- A beauty of a storage system
- Flow rack boosts productivity
- Put-to-light systems speed order filling
- Something's afoot at New Balance
- ESD cabinets enhance plant safety
- Carton flow adds efficiency to Lear's seat assembly operations
- Mezzanines: more than a steel deck
- EQUIPMENT SELECTION GUIDELINES
- Open shelving
- Drawer-style cabinets
- Horizontal carousels
- Vertical carousels
- Storage/retrieval (S/R) machine
- Cantilever-style racks
- YARD AND PLANT SERVICES EQUIPMENT
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