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: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction
- Challenge: Torque and Impact Handling
The different angles and locations of the bolts and a restricted work cell area. A total of four units must be located in the same area with each having a different nut setter doing a different task. The customer would like to reduce the cycle time and eliminate end-effector changes during the assembly process. The ultimate goal is to reduce shock absorbed by the operator.
- Industry: Paper
How to safely pitch heavy rolls, varying in size from vertical to horizontal beneath a hoist.
- Industry: Chemical, Food and Beverage
- Challenge: Baskets - Buckets - Totes
Different sized steel and plastic buckets are manually picked from a 34″ high conveyor and placed onto a 5″ high pallet on the floor and then stacked three high. End user would like to safely and securely handle three buckets at the same time to reduce repetitive motion stresses while increasing productivity.
- Industry: Metal Production
- Challenge: Castings
Ingots are 24″ long. The zinc ingot is 9″ wide and the copper ingot is 3″ wide. They are gripped in random order and heated to 700°F. The furnace hood is 92″ from the floor. The top of the furnace is 48″ from the floor. The ingot must be placed into a pot that is 32″ and under the hood. Extended reach-in is required to place the ingot around all sides of the pot.
The previous solution, using dual hoist, required cumbersome tooling and excessive positioning caused hoist motors to burn out.
- Industry: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction, Military and Defense
- Challenge: Engine Handling
Picking up the crankshafts and transferring them to the inspection table was repetitive. The crankshafts weigh 25 lbs. and were difficult to pick up by hand.
- Industry: Agriculture, Construction, Military and Defense
- Challenge: Tire and Wheel Handling
Operators were lifting hubs out of a crate and holding the heavy part, while trying to align the wheel stud holes and place it on the wheel. This procedure required two operators and still resulted in back injuries.
- 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.