engineered solutions of MHS

MHS offers a wide range of specially engineered solutions to solve virtually any material handling challenge.

Examples of MHS Specialty Projects:

BMW - Rotating conveyor

BMW was experiencing their largest bottle neck in the production of the X5 sport utility vehicle in one of the manual weld floor pan stations. This bottle neck was a result of the time it took the existing equipment to grab, clear, rotate, release and index the skid. It was proposed to provide a conveyor assembly that would lift, clamp, and rotate the skid without any hand off between the conveyor and rotating mechanism being necessary.

The result is the fully integral clamping and rotating conveyor shown below. This conveyor was built and tested in our shop. The conveyor was installed approximately two years ago and has had no down time. The conveyor solution reduced the index time of this station by 22 seconds. Since BMW's index time is less than two minutes you can understand the impact this had on their through put.

BMW Rotatating Conveyor - Click to see larger photos.

Textile beam storage motorized rack system

MHS was approached by a textile manufacturer that had the age old problem of the need to store more inventory than their floor space would allow. They needed the ability to access any of their inventory at any time in any order. MHS then was able to design and layout a motorized racking system to fulfill the customers needs.

In a mobile rack system each individual rack frame is mobile and runs on fixed rails embedded in the floor. Since the racks have the ability to roll back and forth there is only a need for one aisle for product access. These racks are fitted with a complex control system that creates any of eight possible aisles with the push of a button. The racks are designed to operate in tandem eliminating the need for timely indexing as found with a carousel or other like storage units. (click image for larger photo).

In order to create a safe, reliable, and quick way to compensate for this varying center of Gravity we provided a lifting beam that has a motor driven adjustable lifting bale. Now with a push of a button the lifting beam can be leveled by the crane operator as the bus is being lifted. This saves Bluebird from body damage and creates a much safer and stable load. (Click image for larger photo)

ASI Handling Inc. and MHS were ask by Bluebird Body Co. to come up with a method for flipping their floor pans once fully assembled. This would allow them to do the assembly from a comfortable above position. The request was further complicated by the varying wheelbases and the limited building height.

We were able to design and build an adjustable frame that would support the free span load in all rotational planes without deflecting and damaging the finished floor pan. This product then was integrated with a hoist suspended rotating flipping device to accomplish the floor pan rotation.

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