Lift Tables Save Labor, Increase Safety

摘要

This ergonomic system streamlines the transfer of steel to saws and makes handling of awkward parts safer. The assembly line at Power Curbers (Salisbury, N.C.) shapes steel into more than 1,000 different parts for the products the company has been turning out, and improving, for more than 54 years. Among other items, the company provides machinery for the extruding and on-site molding of concrete (known in the industry as slip-forming) for curbing and sidewalks. Power Curbers equipment is used all over the world - in 80 countries to date. When the 85 employees moved into a larger manufacturing plant in last summer, most got their first look at a unique, labor-saving system. Designed by Mark Vanhoy, the company's project engineer, with the help of Bill Miller, a company fabricator, and built by Miller, welder Chris Evans and mold line supervisor Walter Pence, the creation had been in the works for more than a year.