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ProMat 2003 On-Floor Seminar Series Welcomes You to:

SESSION 303

The Selection and Safe Use of Industrial Scissors Lifts and Tilters

Sponsored by: LMPS Lift Manufacturers Product SectionSpeaker: James J. Galante - Southworth Products Corp

What is the selection process?

Where, when and why do you use lifts and tilters?

What are the benefits of their use?

Manual Material Handling problems?

PROBLEMSProblems

PROProblems Problems!

OR P-r-o-b-l-e-m-s

Material Handling opportunities to improve productivity and

enhance safety?

PROBLEMS

LIFTINGSTRETCHING

REACHINGBENDING

STOOPINGand

WALKING

These unnecessary worker activities can result in low productivity, worker fatigue, and costly job-related injuries.

Manufacturing Assembly

Warehouse Distribution

LIFTING

•Reaching and lifting to load/unload pallets

•Awkward back extension to access the far side

•Difficult and improper grip to the load or parts

•Bending over and twisting associated to the manual tasks

Pallets

MANUAL LOADING AND UNLOADING OF PALLETS CONTINUES TO BE

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON AND MOST INJURY PRONE TASKS

IN INDUSTRY TODAY

OOH… I HATE MY JOB!

…DON’T LIKE MY BOSS MUCH

EITHER!

WASTED TIME

WASTED ENERGY

LIKELY INJURY

These are automatic load leveling devices that maintain the top of the

load in the 30 to 38” ergonomic window

Sitting or standing a lift can eliminate the

back bending to associated with pallet

loading/unloading

This lift is

portable

As much as 40% of the time required

loading a pallet, can be spent walking

around it!

Lifts and positioners can also be fitted

with turntables for “near side” loading

TIME SAVINGS = 40%

WORK REDUCTION = 75%

Gosh.. I love my job!

MY BOSS IS A GREAT GUY!

SUBSTAINTAIL REDUCTION IN LOST TIME INJURIES!

BENDING

• Access to bottom of container is poor

• Reach over limits bending of the legswhich exaggerates back strain

• Reaching to the far back and bottomcauses back extension

Containers

Manual loading and unloading of

wire baskets, containers and Gaylord's leads to

a high incidence of lower back injuries

Partspicking

at a hydraulic

press work station

Imagine the back extension, bending and reaching required to get to these parts

This is a completely pneumatic machine

This is a

“Lift and Tilt”

giving the operator direct

control of vertical and

angular positions

This air bag

tilter has a fixed

height

Ideal where load

heights do not

vary widely

Air bag tilters are limited to about 40 degrees of travel

Work station lifts to

eliminate back

bending & stretching

These lifts tilt as they rise vertically

Parts picking made productive from fixed height tilters

Notice the high hinge causing the

container to elevate as it tilts

Parts Picking in Work Cells

There is a scissors lift to position the assembly

These container tilters are portable

STRETCHINGAND REACHING

WHAT TO LOOK FOR...• Workers needing to squat, reach, and stretch to gain access to work.

• Large work pieces that require operation on more than one surface.

• Repetitious assembly tasks.

• Work stations with footstools, stepstools or extension arms for tools.

• Equipment with access/adjustment near floor.

• Heavy work pieces that must be moved or positioned.

• Delicate, breakable or easily marred parts.

• Production machines that require high volume input or output.

• Work stations that are modified by employee to make work easier.

• Material that shouldn’t be touched by hand (hot, cold, food, etc.)

Wrong!

Make that three

wrongs!

Where no loading dock

exists

Right!I love this lift

2000 S eriesDock lifts can be pit mounted or surface mounted

Dock lifts can take fork lift

and load right into the truck

Lift with 90 Degree Upender for Assembly of large panels

There is a scissors lift under here

This portable die cart is inexpensive, fast and effective

Notice the docking clips where the cart and the rack interface

Powered die cart

Roller conveyor top

Powered drive to transport from press room to storage

Lift & Tilt to position electrical panels in this work cell

Notice the accordion skirting to cover

scissors legs

Eliminate back bending by vertically positioning sheets

For positioning order pickers in front of horizontal carousels or conveyor systems

This threshold could as low as 3/8” (10 mm)

Some lifts

and tilters

can be

loaded with

hand trucks

Parts picking on assembly line

Notice the good use of inexpensive gravity

roller conveyor

This lift permits

one person to do what was a

two man job

…so from

pulling parts

where

lifts need

to have

wheels, to …

…to positioning really bigmaterial

...that has it own wheels...

...Industrial lifts provide a economical solution

Tools and Resources

LMPSproudly presents

The lift manufacturers have

written safety standards to insure

the highest standards of design

and aid the user community in the

safest possible application and use.

FREE copies available in the back of this room

There is also a great

publication on online

www.mhia.org/LMPS

A Multi-Media Tool for Material

Handling Problems

FREE copies available in the back of this room

Don’t forget your FREE literature

Hope this has been a “uplifting” experience for you!Don’t forget your FREE CD-ROM

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FINISDon’t forget your FREE literature

THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE!

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The Selection and Safe Use of Industrial Scissors Lifts and Tilters

Sponsored by: LMPS Lift Manufacturers Product Section

James J. Galante

Southworth Products Corp