Specialist Trucks Case Study
‘Lite’ work S
Hotelware manufacturer Steelite International
has improved its
H&S with the help of Tractive Power, which designed and manufactured an innovative piece of MHE.
teelite, which manufactures hotelware and supplies to over 120 countries, has been experiencing rapid business growth over the last few years. This success has led to Steelite heavily investing in the improvement of produc- tion and health and safety at its Stoke-On-Trent factory. David Davies, the kiln manager at Steelite, noticed a manual handling issue in the manoeu- vring of the kiln carts. Two men would move the carts in and out of the kilns, which required care and precision as the loads are extremely frag- ile. This made the operation a difficult task. Tractive Power visited the factory to help find a solution to this manual handling problem. After an initial analysis of the application, Trac- tive Power was able to propose a working system that provided a smooth, precise single-user opera- tion using the TP250 tractive unit. The pedestrian tug units are battery-powered, pedestrian-operated and designed to address manual handling issues such as pulling, pushing and manoeuvring of awk- ward or heavy-wheeled loads in the workplace. Tractive Power designed a bespoke coupling to attach to the kiln cart which allowed the cart to be moved in a safe and secure manner. David Davies comments: “The TP250 unit has helped stabilise the kiln cart load, which now only takes one man to easily manoeuvre the loads safely into the kilns. It was the precision and control that really surprised us. Tractive Power programmed the electric pusher to a perfect speed for our application and was also able to change the acceleration and braking to ensure all aspects of the operation were gradual. Despite the Tractive unit being extremely powerful, the controllabil- ity was second to none. The operatives have noticed a vast improvement in the manual handling of the carts and we are very satisfied with the machine and how Tractive Power responded to our query.” n
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