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: Metal Fabrication
The grip range of the end-effector must handle large variations in rolls. The roll cannot withstand excessive grip force. The manipulator must handle up to 1,000 pounds of payload and still rotate easily.
- Industry: Automotive
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Existing hook hung end-effector was used to unload blocks from a pallet, but was unable to unload parts from a new overhead conveyor. Operators were unloading blocks by hand, flipping them over 180° and placing them on an outbound conveyor.
- Industry: Agriculture, Construction, Military and Defense
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Pins are transferred in and out of machining centers, each with its own clearance problems dictating where the pin can be gripped. Customer’s machine operators are apprehensive concerning manipulators. End-effector must be lightweight, simplistic, operator-friendly and safe to use.
- Industry: Metal Production
- Challenge: Castings
Molds to be handled are irregularly shaped with different sized multiple “legs” extending out and down from the mold pour cup. Gripping at the center of gravity of each mold is not possible, so manual rotation difficult. Molds are solid but brittle. Large work area to be covered by a manipulator.
- Industry: Paper
Minimal floor space is available with pallets placed over a wide work area. Slit rolls on the pallet are placed over a cardboard core poke for shipping. Rolls are dropped to the pallet until a stack is formed. Inner core of the slit rolls cannot be deformed. Operators need to work from both sides of the end-effector.
- 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.
High torque application requiring 100mm nuts being tightened and loosened on a steel fixture. The bolts were both in vertical and horizontal orientation. The application required the operator to use heavy impact wrenches, hand wrenches, and sledgehammers. There was no ability to monitor the actual torque of the nuts and high potential for injury to the employee.
- Industry: Agriculture, Construction
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Cylinder liners are heavy and difficult to handle manually. Customer required three liners to be picked, emptied, and transferred simultaneously. End-effector needs to pick and place liners quickly and easily. Work place environment is dirty and has a wide variance in temperature.