Air Conditioning manufacturer stacker crane

Gorbel Work Station Cranes are helping a manufacturing plant load their finished product to trailers with ease and efficiency.

Application

A plant in the Midwest that makes air conditioning units was looking for a better way to take their packaged air conditioning units off the assembly line and load them onto trailers. They had been using forklifts to transfer the packages to the trailer, but this method was inefficient, and all the fork truck traffic led to congestion on the plant floor. The customer considered an Automated Conveyor System, but determined it would be cost prohibitive.

Gorbel’s Solution

They decided to try a work station crane system instead. They bought a Free Standing Bridge Crane

with Aluminum Bridges. They used it with a custom designed "stacker crane” end effector. This unique

end tooling has 360 degree rotation, can move up and down, and has forks to lift the pallets. This winning combination has been proven to be very successful for the customer. The crane system

allows them to load the trailer more quickly than was possible with the fork trucks - and all the congestion from the back and forth fork truck traffic has been eliminated!

They chose to replace some of their fork lift trucks with Gorbel cranes in order to load packaged units onto trailers. Productivity was increased and fork truck congestion was eliminated.

Ergonomic Partners has extensive experience in handling air conditioning coils, condensers, and bodies. If the relatively new EPA standards have made your parts too hard to handle with manpower we can help.

Contact us at sales@ergonomicpartners.com or visit us at www.ergonomicpartners.com