A fire protection cylinder manufacturer has a variety of cylinder sizes and weights. During manufacturing, these cylinders must be moved from station to station to have various parts installed. The large cylinders can weigh up to 2000 lbs. In the past, they lifted the cylinders using a jib boom or a fork truck to bring the cylinder into the workstation. This caused safety concerns with the fork truck traffic being very close to the human workers and very tight quarters.
Material Handling Solution
As a solution to this material handling challenge, the company considered using “LoBoy” or a drop center style industrial cart which allowed the large cylinders to be kept very low (~4”) to the floor. The cylinders are loaded with a jib boom at the beginning of the process but are then manually moved from station to station on the LoBoy industrial cart. The operators are able to move the cylinder regardless of the size. The industrial carts were built with safety constraint straps to hold a variety of cylinder sizes and weights and thus conform to safety regulations.
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