Automotive Industry Lifting
TAWI's vacuum lifting systems enhance automotive plant flexibility and safety by allowing employees to easily lift and move heavy components, reducing the need for bulky equipment like hydraulics or forklifts, and offering cost-effective, versatile, and adaptable solutions for production processes.
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Efficient and safe material handling in automotive industry
Modern automotive plants must be very flexible with the ability to manage multiple models and more importantly, multiple platforms, within a single plant. TAWI’s smart lifting systems can play an important role in increasing both the agility and safety of your production process. With our vacuum lifters, any employee can safely lift and move heavy or cumbersome items from tires and batteries to windshields and other components easier than ever before. Struggling with handling wheels and tires? Our tire lifting equipment makes it easy and effortless. This facilitates easier staffing and more production flexibility.
Flexibility and safety in your automotive and wheel lifting processes
In addition, with a TAWI system, you get a highly versatile lifting device which can drastically reduce or eliminate the need for bulky hydraulics or forklifts along with their maintenance and down-time issues. All in all, you get lower upfront cost, greater flexibility in future process changes, and unparalleled safety when using a TAWI lifting solution in your operations.
Where can TAWI help your automotive material handling operations?
Handling Incoming Goods
Producing an automobile is a complex process, with car components from many different outside suppliers being brought together for assembly in the plant. This vast array of components and parts arrive by truck or railroad and must be off-loaded and delivered to the proper production area. The repetitive movement and handling of these components places great physical strain upon employees and can be a critical – and time-consuming – part of the overall process.
What TAWI offers – Ergonomic and efficient automotive handling equipment
TAWI lifting solutions are designed to remove the strain of repetitive lifting and solve specific challenges faced when handling incoming goods, such as the need to stack goods between very low or high levels or to handle large, delicate items like window glass. An operator equipped with a vacuum lifter can quickly and safely pick items without kneeling, bending, or potentially damaging the component being lifted, thus meeting demands of accuracy and short cycle times. Also, all of TAWI’s lifters can be configured to handle a wide range of goods – from boxes, wheels and sacks to windshields and car doors.
Streamlining the Assembly Line
When assembling the various components that make up an automobile on the assembly line, speed and accuracy are key to profitability. Lifting equipment in the assembly process must facilitate the overall workflow and guarantee that the components or parts are safely handled, with no risk to employees or parts. If operators can’t do their job quickly and safely, there is the risk of a breakdown that could delay the entire assembly process.
For precise and secure lifting, TAWI’s customizable solutions can be seamlessly integrated into an existing auto assembly line and adapted into existing facilities and processes. A TAWI system ensures that any employee can lift and place any part quickly and securely, even difficult-to-hold or heavy workpieces. The result is a more streamlined, ergonomic, and efficient assembly line.
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Faster and Safer Component Handling
The manufacture of components and parts that go into automobiles is a complex and demanding process. Every component, from doors to side panels to roofs, need to be handled, moved, and placed into position for attachment of assembly. This requires strength and high positioning accuracy because any marks or damage to components is not acceptable.
Where other systems, like mechanical grippers, might be too heavy, inflexible, or damaging to components, TAWI’s solutions are easy to use and can lift components of various shapes and sizes securely. Our equipment can be used at any stage of the component process – from production to parts manufacturing to the final assembly – so you can achieve maximum efficiency and safety throughout your operations. With the perfect combination of power and finesse, TAWI vacuum lifting solutions ensure all components are put into place accurately, easily, and undamaged.
Improving Storage Handling
Car parts are often bulky or oddly shaped, making them unsuitable for conventional storage and for conventional lifting solutions. The key to an effective storage and retrieval process is efficiency. If operations are poorly organized or it’s time-consuming to find items, then valuable time and money is lost. Other serious concerns are products getting damaged or workers getting injured during the storage handling process.
TAWI’s line of vacuum lifters makes storing and retrieving these parts – from exhaust pipes and windscreens to batteries and boxes of components – easier than ever before. A TAWI system can be customized to fit any type of storage operation and provides a solution that is space efficient, ergonomic, and easy to use. With these improvements to operations, automobiles can be completed faster and more frequently, and suppliers can effectively manage shipping demands with no risk to product or employee.
TAWI – A Trusted Partner to the Automotive Industry
Bilia Sisjön is one of Europe’s leading car dealers with approximately 160 facilities and 5,000 employees, and they wanted a solution to help operators stack heavy car tires. “The great benefits that my team and I experience from using the wheel lift from TAWI are undeniable; we can do our work simply and ergonomically, saving our physical and mental well-being. As a result, our workday is now significantly improved.”- Martin Ståhl, Automotive Parts Manager at Bilia Sisjön
Continental Tires Norway has a central warehouse that produces between 100,000 to 200,000 wheels a year and uses TAWI vacuum lifters to handle tires and wheels. “Our everyday life has become very different compared to how it was before. We used to lift manually and always got very tired during the day since we lifted so many pounds. Now we don’t have to lift manually anymore! It’s really fantastic”, says Roger Tangen, Production Worker at Continental Tires, Norway.
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Whether in the auto shop, the component manufacturing plant, or the automotive production line, vacuum lifters from TAWI make work easier and more agile than ever before. We are constantly evolving our product offering and helping our automotive customers keep pace with rapidly changing conditions in the safest, most reliable fashion. Contact us to learn how we can improve your material handling processes.
Our everyday life has become very different compared to how it was before. We used to lift manually and always got very tired during the day since we lifted so many pounds. Now we don't have to lift manually any more. It's really fantastic!
Roger Tangen, Continental Tires Production Worker
