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: Furniture
- Challenge: Sheet Lifting
The material handling solution must be ergonomically correct and of simplistic design. Unit would be handling a variety of payload weights.
- Industry: Metal Production
- Challenge: SEN, Slidegate, Slidegate and Shroud Handling
A Foundry environment, extreme temperatures and molten metal were factors in choosing the correct handling solution. Customer had a limited budget to fulfill needs of a new work cell. Previous Positech Manipulator was taken out of service due to new work cell functions.
- Industry: Paper
How to safely pitch heavy rolls, varying in size from vertical to horizontal beneath a hoist.
- 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: 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: 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.
- Industry: Agriculture, Construction, Military and Defense, Tire
- Challenge: Tire and Wheel Handling
The tire assembly needs to be oriented so that the hub centerline is parallel to the centerline of the axle. there is a close fit between the hub ID and axle OD. The tire assembly must be rotated to align the hub key with the axle keyway. Thus, the tire assembly is lifted, pitched, swiveled, and rotated during installation onto the axle. An overhead hoist with a sling or C-frame lifting device was used for lifting; however, this method lacked control and safety.
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.