Sheet Lifting
- Industry: Furniture
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
The material handling solution must be ergonomically correct and of simplistic design. Unit would be handling a variety of payload weights.
- Industry: Appliances, HVAC, Metal Fabrication
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
There were a wide variety of panel sizes, weights and configurations. Panel variations include flat sheets that could only be p-icked up with a vacuum end-effector and panels with large round holes that could only be picked up with a gripper end-effector.
- Industry: Aerospace, Construction, HVAC, Metal Fabrication
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
Handling various sizes of materials including tubing, channel, steel plates and formed sheet metal with only one manipulator.
- Industry: Automotive
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
The same end-effector must pick up both the hull and deck, distinctly different weights and sizes of parts. A vacuum end-effector will not work, because of the lack of consistent surfaces between the variety of parts and proven marring by vacuum cups. The products are quite large, limiting the operators ability to easily see the backside of the part when actuating grip.
- Industry: Metal Fabrication
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
Steel sheet handling, sheet range in thickness from 22 ga to 1″ and weigh up to 700 lbs. Cut parts are cleared from the skeletons as follows: Light sheets are shaken like a blanket, medium sheets are manually hammered or impacted with an air chisel, and heavy sheets are lifted and shaken with a forklift with no way to secure the sheet on the forks. The sheets are awkward, heavy, and hard to handle due to their size, causing ergonomic issues and back and shoulder injuries. It takes multiple operators to distribute the work load and handle the large skeletons.