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 Production
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Long parts are laying horizontal on the welding table at a 30° down angle. The catalytic converter is towards the operator. Parts are placed into the rack vertically and the catalytic converter is away from the operator at at a 15° forward angle. Intake tube on the bottom of the part is lifted over and onto a 3″ stud. exhaust tube snaps into clips at the top of the rack.
- 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: 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: HVAC
- Challenge: Electric/White Goods Handling
Several operators were trying to assemble shrouds onto the dampers, flipping the parts over and handling sharp edges. Customer needed a way to lift, hold and rotate the dampers as operators install sheet metal shrouds with rivets.
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Challenge: Baskets - Buckets - Totes
The bucket is heavy when full and the sharp spikes presented a danger to people handling the bucket. Since the contents are liquid, spills are always a concern. Also, the manipulator must be washed down daily with hot, soapy water from a high pressure washer.
- Industry: Automotive
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Two styles of exhaust assemblies are manufactured in batches. The weld fixture has clamps to hold the assemblies and the shipping racks have cradles to support the assemblies. Each rack holds ten assemblies arranged in two rows with each row containing five assemblies. Assemblies in front row are orientation 180° to the assemblies in the back row.
- Industry: Metal Fabrication, Tire
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Multiple parts to be handled. The dunnage and bell housing create clearance restrictions above, below, and around the part. This leaves the face of the flywheel as the only exposed surface for gripping. The gripper cannot interfere with power tool access for driving in the attachment bolts. The entire process must be completed within a 54 second cycle time.
- Industry: Mining
- Challenge: Cylindrical
Limited work space, multiple obstacles, and heavy parts lead to ergonomic problems. Restricted power sources and underground environmental conditions limited the available equipment to perform the tasks. The end-user was looking for a solution to improve operator ergonomics as well as the overall efficiency of this maintenance process.