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
Lifting and inserting the counterweight, which may weigh up to 65 lbs., creates several ergonomic issues. There is a 10′ dropped ceiling above the counterweight staging area. The opening in the cabinet is only 1″ larger than the counterweight, which requires the pitched up counterweight be perfectly aligned for insertion. The cabinet is traversing the work cell moving by on a powered conveyor.
- Industry: Metal Production
- Challenge: Castings
Grip point is at the middle of the length, across the width of the bra. Pattern width extends over the grip point 5″ on the current product, 10.5″ on the future product. At grip point pattern, clearance is reduced to2 “. Bras (supported plates) must be picked up off a table with a 1” stand-off clearance. Wax pattern out of mold machine is unstable and requires gentle placement on cart.
- Industry: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction, Military and Defense
- Challenge: Glass Handling
Safe3ly pitch heavy glass panels varying in size, weighing up to 150 lbs. up to 110°, from vertical to horizontal and rotate through the pitched horizontal axis to line up holes for installation.
- Industry: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction
- Challenge: Seat Handling
Seat weight increased beyond single operator capability.
- 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.
- 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: 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: 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.