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Our tool for the first step: describe the handling task in your own words and you receive a shortlist of suitable units with reasoning. It does not replace the conversation with an engineer, but it shortens it considerably.
Anyone looking for handling equipment usually looks for a design: balancer, manipulator, lifting axis. That is the second step. The first is describing the task – what is moved, from where to where, how often and in what environment. From that description the design follows almost by itself; conversely, choosing a design too early leads to equipment that carries the load but does not solve the task.
These five inputs are enough for a sound shortlist.
If the load is only lifted, moved and set down freely, a device that compensates the weight is sufficient – a balancer. If parts are joined, rotated or gripped off-centre, rigid guidance is needed: a manipulator arm or a lifting axis. Obstacles in the way speak for an articulating jib; several stations for a rail system; a ban on drilling for a mobile unit on a base plate.
Outreach and load together give the moment that passes into floor or ceiling. The cycle rate decides how much attention the gripper deserves: at high frequency, pick-up time counts for more than lifting speed.
An equipment finder takes the description of the task and returns a reasoned shortlist. It saves the first round of queries and shows which designs come into consideration at all.
It does not replace the engineering. The tipping moment and anchoring, the design of the gripper, the capacity of floor or building and the risk assessment of the workstation call for figures, a site visit or at least photographs – and an engineer to assess them.
What Entracon offers here is on the matching page.
See what we offer| Feature of the task | Points to | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Free transfer, high cycle rate | Balancer | Fast, follows the hand |
| Joining, rotating, off-centre load | Manipulator or lifting axis | Rigid guidance absorbs forces and moments |
| Obstacles between pick-up and set-down | Articulating jib | Reaches around obstacles |
| Several workstations | Rail system | One device serves the whole area |
| Low headroom, rigid guidance needed | Telescopic axis | Long stroke at short overall height |
| No drilling possible, changing locations | Mobile unit | Stands on a ballasted base plate |
Weight and dimensions of the component, the pick-up and set-down positions with distance and heights, the frequency and the environment. A photograph of the workstation replaces many queries.
No. It provides a shortlist and shortens the conversation. The final design – moment, anchoring, gripper, structure – is done with the figures of the actual workstation.
Then the detail of the motion sequence decides: is there work against a stop anywhere? Does the load have to be rotated? How long does pick-up take? Observing today’s sequence often settles the question faster than any comparison of data sheets.
One short conversation usually settles more than three quotations. Call or write — you will reach an engineer directly.
Start typing – for example “balancer”, “SAP” or “pipe stress”.
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