Throughout many years Sweden has been
one of our most important export markets. The Swedish economy is
doing well again and we have, therefore, found this the right time
to establish a Swedish subsidiary.
Up till now we have first of all be known in Sweden for our
solutions for the wood and furniture industry but now we will market
our solutions for pallet handling in all lines of business as well.
Beyond other orders we have recently supplied Tetra Pack at Lund with a large-sized conveyor system so we
are well under way.
The manager of the Swedish subsidiary, Q-System Sverige AB, is Tomas
Boman who has previously been employed with the Swedish company of
Hanter, which is also a manufacturer of materials handling systems.
Why
should a pallet dispenser have room for only 20 pallets?
We have supplied
a major Danish company who use a lot of pallets during the day with
a 7 m high double pallet dispenser
with room for 120 pallets.
The pallet dispensers have provided many advantages such as a
reduced number of pallet liftings during the day, less fork-truck
driving, shorter driving distances and increased tidiness in the
storeroom.
It's Heavy We are going to handle segments for Siemens
wind turbines
It's hard to get around in our assembly dept. for the moment – there
are long and heavy blue I profiles everywhere. We are producing an
approx. 500 m long conveyor system for
handling segments for wind turbine towers.
The conveyor system is to be installed at
AndresenTowers of Denmark's brand new factory which
was built after the company had secured the contract for carrying
out the surface treatment of tower segments for Siemens wind
turbines.
The bottom segments of which a tower is built up have a length of 13.6 m, a width of 2 m and it weighs 450 kg. If the weight of the
segment had been evenly distributed on the width of the roller
conveyor we could have based the conveyors on our Q89 system for
heavy loads but this is not the case. The segments are curved
outwards meaning that the weight of the segment rests on the two
side edges. Therefore, the rollers must be of very heavy
construction to carry the load.
The two pictures show the proto type of the conveyor system, which
is going to be installed in February. The reason why two segments
are placed on top of each other is to capacity load stress-test the
system. The segments on the photo have a length of 11.6 m.
We have recently
supplied a roller conveyor system for the assembly of refrigerators.
First, the side panels and then the top and the bottom panels are
mounted, then the insert and finally the back panel. Before
injection of insulation foam the cabinet has to be turned upside
down so that the front turns upwards.
To carry out the
turning of the cabinet we have developed a squeezer with two "arms".
These "arms" will press against the top and bottom of the cabinet
and hold it while turning. When the cabinet is placed on the roller
conveyor with the front upwards the squeezer will return to pick up
another cabinet.
The
squeezer is equipped with a sensor allowing it to handle
cabinets of different heights without being reset.
Lifting of heavy sacks was eliminated using a robot and roller
conveyors
Many companies encounter health and safety problems when employees
are lifting goods which at the end of the day total many kilos –
this possibly combined with ackward working postures as well.
Alfix of Denmark, which produces
adhesives, grouts, and
levelling compounds for the construction industry were having health
and safety problems in connection with their order picking as the
employees had to lift many
25 kg heavy sacs from the floor to a pallet
placed on a pallet jack.
An automation of the order picking process has now solved the
problems and led to increased productivity and accuracy in order
picking.
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