A fitting two-tier system
February 1st 2010 Excel Monorail Systems (formerly
Translift Systems), a division of Excel
Automation, has recently completed
an extension to a conveying and
handling system, which has enabled
the Cockpit fit station on the MINI
production line at Plant Oxford to
be re-located 20m further along.
The move required the design of a
new conveying and handling system
to transport loaded platen out of the
drop section to the new fitting
position, relocating the manipulator
(and standby manipulator),
implementing a new light guard
array to the new position and a
means of returning the platen to the
drop section for onward despatch.
The new 20m conveying system
now takes the cockpit on a two-tier
conveyor to a new Cockpit fit
station, where it is removed from the
platen and fitted to the vehicle. The
empty platen is then lowered 900mm
to the lower tier and returned to the
same drop section that brought it up
to the ground floor. From there it is
transported back into a trailer for
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