Ballscrew Actuated Lifts for Automotive Skillet System
Overview Handling Specialty custom engineered and manufactured ball screw actuated lifts for the first skillet system for a major North American automotive manufacturer. The skillet utilizes platforms (skillets) to transport the materials or products through various assembly operations. The strength of this system is that it provides access around the perimeter of the product enabling […]
Research Facility Lift
Overview Handling Specialty Manufacturing was approached by an automotive customer to custom engineer and design a mechanical lift for its research facility. Called a pedestrian bridge, the lift is essentially a collapsible covered walkway to facilitate pedestrian traffic from the main floor level to raised research platform. Features Pivoting support legs. Translucent panels. Hydraulically operated […]
Scissor Lifts for Automotive Industry
Overview Handling Specialty solved a material handling challenge in a Canadian auto plant by custom engineering and manufacturing a high-cycle, robust, and durable lift system that transferred car bodies atop steel skids between two sets of conveyors set on different levels. The lift has a powered conveyor mounted on top of it in the lowered […]
Inverted Scissor Lift for Automotive Assembly
Overview Handling Specialty was approached by the technical division of a large US automaker to custom engineer a lift that could be integrated into different conveying systems. The company created an innovative solution that involved combining an overhead crane and a scissor lift. The crane moves in an “x-y” direction while the scissor lift operates […]
Scissor Lift for Robotic Paint Cell
Overview A “Big Three” automaker approached Handling Specialty to custom engineer, design, and manufacture explosion-proof, high-precision scissor lifts for one of their robotic automotive paint facilities. In this solution, the fully-assembled car body enters an offline inspection booth by way of a power roller conveyor. The body is transferred onto the paint station’s tandem scissor […]
Custom Scissor Lift for Robotic Welding Cell
Overview At an automotive assembly plant in Vance, Alabama, Handling Specialty custom engineered and manufactured scissor lifts that were integrated into the production line for welding structural components to automotive bodies. The transfer process in and out of the workstation dictated a change in elevation along with a high degree of accuracy and speed. Using […]