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Assembly workstations
Typical in the automotive and supplier industry: parts are fed, positioned and joined ergonomically – without effort.
Lifting equipment · Conveyor systems
Rail System
The whole area covered – in X and Y.
An aluminium or steel crane runway and rail system that opens up a complete working area in the X and Y directions via bridge and trolley. The basis to which all Kolibri base units are connected – dimensioned individually.
Operating principle
Schematic representation
2Axes
Area coverage X/Y
2Materials
Aluminium & steel
100%
Base unit interface
How it works
The hall becomes the working area.
Bridge and trolley open up the area in X and Y – every point beneath becomes reachable. The system is the base: balancer, lifting axis or articulated arm attach to it, depending on the task.
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Runways
Ceiling or floor steelwork as the basis of the system.
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Bridge & trolley
Move the load across the area in the X and Y directions.
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Device interface
Interface for all Kolibri base units (lifting axis, articulated arm, balancer …).
The working cycle
Picking up
The base unit picks up the load at the trolley.
Lifting
Vertical stroke via the connected unit.
Travelling in X/Y
Bridge and trolley move the load across the entire area.
Setting down
Set down precisely at any point of the area.
Applications
Wherever loads are moved precisely.
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Machine loading
For metal and plastics processing: place workpieces safely into machines and fixtures, without reaching into the danger zone.
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Order picking & packaging
In logistics and consumer goods production: move boxes and containers sensitively – consistent output, spared backs.
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Workpiece handling
In tool and mould making: guide heavy parts safely and position them precisely.
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Food industry
For dairy, beverages and meat: usable hygienically with a food-grade Rilsan coating.
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Explosion-proof areas
In chemicals, coatings and pharmaceuticals (ATEX zones): approved and safe in the explosion-proof version.
Technical data
At a glance.
All figures can be adapted to your process. Talk to us about an individual design.
- Capacity
- as designed
- Material
- Aluminium, steel
- Medium
- Air, electric
- Field of use
- Ceiling or floor steelwork
- Movement
- Area coverage X/Y
- Options
- Telescopic, travel drives, switches, parking station
Control
The right control for every process.
“Pif-Paf” travel control
Direct, tactile travel control at the handle.
Combined control
Combines travelling and lifting in a single control.
Integrated scale
Weighing the load directly within the handling process.
Universal control
Flexible for individual process requirements.
Equipment & options
Configured to your requirements.
- Continuous power feed-through
- Mobile base plate
- Parking position for the gripper
- Drives of all kinds within the rail system
- Brakes on all axes
- All common RAL colours
- Food-grade Rilsan coating
- Explosion-proof version
Your benefits
Why the Rail System?
Entire area
Opens up a complete working area in X and Y.
Modular
All base units can be connected.
As designed
Spans and capacity dimensioned individually.
Expandable
Switches, parking stations and travel drives for complex layouts.
Interessiert am Rail System?
We design the unit individually for your process – from capacity and reach to the control system. Request a no-obligation quotation or the technical data sheet.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about the Rail System
Does the building have to carry the system?
For suspended systems, yes – the roof structure has to take the load. Where the reserve is missing or unknown, we build free-standing on our own columns. Structural capacity is therefore the first question, not the last.
When does a rail beat individual units?
Usually from around three similar workstations that are not served simultaneously. Then one unit on the rail replaces several fixed units.
What should be considered for the energy supply?
It is the most common retrofit point. A drag chain is simple but limits the travel path; a continuous energy supply allows unlimited travel and rotation but has to be planned from the start. Also plan a spare channel.
Applications
Tasks this device solves
Application
Turning sheet metal at the press brake
It is not the weight that forces two people. It is the area.
View ApplicationSupporting torques up to 600 Nm
The torque goes into the arm – or into the person.
View ApplicationMoving eight hundred cartons a shift
Twenty-five kilos are allowed. Eight hundred times twenty-five are not.
View ApplicationLoading film reels into the machine
Any crane can pick it up. The unit has to hit the shaft.
View ApplicationMoving sacks and packs in the wet area
What cannot be cleaned will not be used.
View ApplicationPalletising sacks from the bagging line
Fifteen tonnes a day, sack by sack, with the back.
View ApplicationSetting glass panes and glazing
Glass does not forgive a second attempt.
View ApplicationChanging moulds on the injection moulding machine
The machine is not idle because it is broken. It is idle because it is being set up.
View ApplicationMounting wheels on the assembly line
Lifting is not the work. Aligning is.
View ApplicationFeeding profiles and tubes to the saw
Six metres of steel is not a weight. It is a lever.
View ApplicationLoading panels onto the CNC
Two people carry the panel. One of them carries only its size.
View ApplicationTipping and emptying containers
The container is not hard to lift. It is hard to meter.
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Industries
Where this unit is used
Guides
Related reading
8 min
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Inspection of lifting equipment
Once a year. And in the log, or it did not happen.
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8 min
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Manipulator or robot?
The robot wins on repetition. People win on variants.
Read the article
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Planning a rail system
One unit at eight stations beats eight units.
Read the article