Fitting attachments
Offering up and bolting flaps, doors, panels and units on the standing vehicle.
Industry
Handling technology for rail and commercial vehicle building
In vehicle building it is not the workpiece that moves but the person. A car body stands and assembly happens all around it – over twenty metres of length, on several levels and with parts weighing individually between ten and three hundred kilograms.
- Capacity on the longitudinal runway
- 300 kg
- Length of the working area
- 24 m
- floor and platform served
- 2 levels
01 — Applications
The workstation is twenty metres long.
Typical handling tasks in Rail and commercial vehicles — and what they demand technically.
Interior fit-out
Bringing seats, modules and linings into the car body – through narrow door openings and over the platform.
Setting units
Fitting motors, compressors and converters underfloor or in the roof area, with fine positioning.
Setting panes and windows
Guiding large panes vertically and setting them into the frame without loading the edge.
Bolting overhead
Absorbing tightening torques in awkward postures through an arm instead of through the body.
02 — What matters
What Rail and commercial vehicles demands of handling technology
A working area that does not fit a circle
A car body is twenty to thirty metres long. Any jib serves a fraction of that, and three jibs leave zones open between them. So in vehicle building the longitudinal runway is the norm: a rail system over the whole length on which one or more devices travel. It follows the shape of the vehicle instead of the other way round – and it is the only design that reaches the ends too.
Two levels, one system
Work on the vehicle happens from below and from the platform. A system serving only one level halves its usefulness. So we size stroke and headroom so the same device reaches the underfloor and the roof area – often with a telescopic axis, because under the hall roof there is rarely space for a chain hoist with full stroke.
Narrow openings and awkward postures
In interior fit-out the weight is not the problem but the route: through an eighty-centimetre door, around a corner, into a recess. That calls for slim devices with a large swing range and a mount that rotates about its own axis. And it calls for the torque arm, because bolting happens overhead – in that posture the reaction is the real risk.
03 — Device catalogue
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Equipment for Rail and commercial vehicles
Design, payload and reach — the shortlist for this industry.
Lifting equipment · Conveyor systems
01
Rail System
The whole area covered – in X and Y.
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Lifting equipment · Manipulators
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Articulated Arm Hoist
The jointed arm for millimetre-precise handling.
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Lifting equipment · Lifting axes
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I-GO Lifting Axis
Compact power for vertical lifting.
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Lifting equipment · Assembly aids
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Torque Arm
Takes the reaction torque – your hands stay free.
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04 — Services
From analysis to inspection
01
Workstation Analysis
We look at the workstation before we talk about equipment.
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02
Plant Construction
Process plants – planned, built, documented and commissioned.
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03
Lifting Technology
Lifting equipment, manipulators and balancers for industry, medical technology and logistics.
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04
Statutory Inspections
Recurring inspection of your equipment to German accident prevention regulations.
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05 — Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions from Rail and commercial vehicles
Can several devices work on one runway?
Yes, that is the normal case in vehicle building. What is needed are end stops, buffer distances and a division of working areas so the devices do not obstruct each other. In cycled production we set fixed areas, in one-off production rather overlapping ones with mechanical limits.
How does a device get into the interior?
Usually not at all – it hands over at the door. For interior fit-out we work with slim mobile devices or with mounts on a short runway inside the vehicle. Which route suits depends on door width and on whether anchoring inside the vehicle is permitted.
What about the underfloor area?
That is the harder part: low height, overhead work and heavy units. Here we work with low-profile lift axes and mounts that hold the part in its end position so both hands are free for bolting.
Is it worth it in one-off production?
Often yes, because in one-off production the parts are larger and the postures worse than in series. The calculation runs over alignment time and the need for a second person – both of which weigh more heavily here than the cycle.
07 — Guides
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Sizing a manipulator
It is not the payload that decides, it is the moment.
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8 min
02
Planning a rail system
One unit at eight stations beats eight units.
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9 min
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Lifting aids at the assembly station
The question is never “which unit?”. It is “which movement?”.
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Contact
We do not know your shop floor yet — but we know the task.
One short conversation usually settles more than three quotations. Call or write — you will reach an engineer directly.