Project of the Automotive Sector. Durability and exigency in the internal displacements of the asembly lines

May 17, 2021

Inicial Situation

Ruedas Alex, as a manufacturer of castors and wheels since 1958, has a team with a great number of professionals, which main goal is to study and give tailored fit solutions to the customers, trying to give a personal solution to the different challenges that the clients propose.

In this specific case, the client is a manufacturing firm from the automotive sector. Their technical department presented us with a challenge. Their productivity in their factory was lowering due to the inefficient displacements of their trolleys in their production lines.

With the end of offering a better service to its clients reducing the delivery time, they saw themselves forced to increase the flux of displacements of their trolleys. This caused the trolleys to be subjected to higher work exigency. All this affected to the old castor that was in use in the trolley, thus making that specific set of castors not ideal and seeing the productivity lowered due to the stated above.

After studying the situation, our engineering department, saw a clear challenge: offer a combination of durability and sturdiness to the whole of the castor, as well as, increasing the safety and efficiency of the trolleys when the workers use the trolleys.

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Proposed Solution

The proposed solution from our engineers was to design and manufacture a reinforced part that would be added to superior bearing of our ZVR fork. This addition would make the assembly more resistant and compact, contributing to an increase in sturdiness and durability.

The chosen wheel was from our HUAB series, ideal to absorb strikes and hard work conditions, of which the castor and the trolley were subjected in the line of work. Not only did this solution increase the manoeuvrability and decreasing the time of the movements as well and increase in productivity of the trolleys, but also added a great safety feature for the workers when they were using the trolleys, in their assembly line.

The results were such a success increasing the productivity and decreasing the times in the manufacturing lines, that the firm decided to apply this solution in other areas of their assembly lines.

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