Engineering Consultation
With nearly 40 years of experience, we can meet with your project team on-site at your facility (engineering, quality control, safety, production, and operators) to clearly define the application and the expected productive output of the project.
Installation Services
Positech can supply supervised installation (turnkey or partnership) with local contracted installation personnel or your internal maintenance personnel to assure a safe, efficient installation.
Integration Services
Positech can source and supply entire work cell solutions that may include lift assists, lift tables, conveyors, overhead rails, carts, fixtures, and other ergonomic solutions for a total project solution.
Operator and Maintenance Personnel Training
After a new piece of equipment or process is installed in your facility, it is very important that the operators, production people and maintenance personnel are trained to operate and maintain this installation safely and efficiently.
Planning & Layout Design
Positech can supply 2D and/or 3D layouts and profiles of the existing area and the product flow and production enhancement of the completed project.
Long-Term Service Support
Positech has 24-hour phone support, preventative maintenance services and spare parts support for the life of the equipment.
Case Studies
- 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: Paper
The rolls are very heavy and expensive to manufacture. The largest roll is 63″ in length, 30″ in diameter and weighs 1,450 lbs. While core diameter remains constant at 6″, the length, width, and weigh vary. Vertical travel is a concern in order to be able to retract the material handling device in the vertical orientation. Operator safety is top priority when considering the weight of the rolls to be handled.
- Industry: Electronics
- Challenge: Electric/White Goods Handling
The cart has several shelves filled with electrical connectors. The application requires that the parts do not come in contact with each other as the cart is transferred in and out of the heat treat process.
- Industry: Agriculture, Construction, Military and Defense
- Challenge: Cylindrical
Cylinders are stacked on top of each other in a crate with no access for a gripper end-effector. Additionally, wash racks do not have access for an end-effector to grip around the parts.
- Industry: Paper
The vertical up and down dimensions of the manipulator end-effector was critical due to the large variation in roll heights and part orientations. The end-effector must prevent the rolls from telescoping when pitched down.
- Industry: Automotive, Tire
- Challenge: Tire and Wheel Handling
Increase in injuries during the tire stitching process.
Injuries were common as operators attempted to lift the heavy rolls and hold while placing on a spindle. The label rolls were being damaged as operators rolled the product on the pallet inverting the packets to a core horizontal position. Contacting packets by hand resulted in lost product as material was easily damaged.
- Industry: Metal Production
- Challenge: Engine Handling
The Differentials are not large, but are heavy and hot. While there is only one size of Differential, the operator must reach into the mold to extract the part and manually rotate it.