Materials Handling
Stillage Conveing System
The Stillage Conveying System was designed to automate flow of the assembled components of the Independent Rear Suspensions -(IRS).
The empty stillages stack 2-high are unloaded from a truck using a forklift and then placed on the empty conveyor.
The stillages index to the next station and the empty station is loaded with another 2 high-stack stillages.
The process is repeated until all stations on the empty conveyor are filled. In the last station the stillages are destacked and then transported across on the transfer table.
At the end of the table the stillages are filled with components(IRS)and then restacked on the first station of the full conveyor.
Next the stacked stillages are being indexed toward the last station. From the last station filled stacked stillages are being taken and loaded on to the trucks.
The whole system is hydraulically operated the cycle time is about 3 min. and the system is fully automated.
General Arrangement
