The Need for Safety Skirts

(10003) Many times customers see the safety skirts on Herkules products and question the need for such a product.  Some see it as an unnecessary add on, incurring extra cost when economics discourage purchasing options on equipment.  Since statistics have shown that hand injuries remain the most reoccurring injuries in commercial environments, the use of safety skirting has been deemed a necessity in just about all manufacturing environments.

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Lift Table Technology

(10002) Lift table technology are key enabling technologies that offer significant opportunities for technological breakthroughs and productivity improvements. Scissor lifts tables exist to extend human capabilities and improve human productivity. In a manufacturing setting, lift table technology is used to bring materials to a worksite and position them where humans can use the materials in a manufacturing process.

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Skillet Conveyor Lift Table

(10001) Skillet conveyor lift table systems seem to be the most efficient way know to assemble vehicles today. These systems came into being at the start of the 1990’s and are becoming widely used to assemble cars and trucks around the world.  The skillet platform is a tubular frame which is welded together and they are typically about 12 x 20 feet (300 x 500 mm) and they are about 4” tall (100 mm) with a scissor lift table placed in the center.

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