As a safety manager or plant operator, you would likely agree that two of your top goals are to maximize productivity and promote workplace safety. One of the best ways to achieve both of these goals is to install one or more ergonomic jib cranes at your facility.
A growing number of businesses are gravitating toward enclosed track workstation cranes to boost warehouse efficiency. Users are discovering that they can boost their operations without the need to make costly adjustments to their facility's foundation.
As a plant manager or engineer, you likely strive to maximize productivity and worker safety while minimizing product damage. Achieving all these goals simultaneously has become increasingly challenging, especially with the changing composition of our workforce.
On the material-handling floor, it all comes down to being productive
and profitable. But, due to the rising costs associated with workplace
injuries, we can add "ergonomic" to that list as well.
Gorbel's Crane Technology and Ergonomic Lifting products are the handling equipment you need to get the job done. Since 1977, Gorbel has specialized in overhead material handling solutions, earning a reputation for providing our customers with the highest quality products and the highest performance.
In 1828, Joseph Kuhn, a blacksmith from the small town of Eckartswiller, France, began manufacturing livestock weighing equipment at his village forge.
Hoists and cranes boost productivity, improve ergonomics and reduce damage to parts and assemblies. That’s not to say, however, that assemblers can take a cavalier attitude toward these devices. Here are some do’s and don’ts for using hoists and cranes.
