Since the 1960s, the automotive manufacturing industry has been at the forefront of industrial robotics and automation. In fact, the first industrial robot in history, George Devol’s Unimate, worked welding die castings to auto bodies for a General Motors assembly line starting way back in 1961!
With the International Federation of Robots estimating that the automotive industry will account for at least half of the worldwide growth in the robotics industry through 2018, it doesn’t look like the relationship between robots and car companies is changing any time soon.
Just a few weeks ago mk North America released four new videos about their VersaMove pallet conveyor line.
Never heard of a pallet conveyor before? This first video highlights the various pallet conveyor platforms from mk, as well as showcasing some of the possible uses.
As industrial demand for reduced overhead costs and increased efficiency grows, so too does the demand for manufacturing process and factory automation. Factory automation helps manufacturers to increase production rates, material efficiency, worker safety, flexibility, and more, all while bringing down overall costs.
For almost any industrial process, conveyors are one of the most crucial components of a comprehensive factory automation system. mk North America is a leader in industrial automation, providing modular pallet conveyor systems, belt conveyors, sanitary conveyors, and more including custom conveyor design to meet specific demands.
Production lines frequently need to have the ability to accumulate or store pallets before the next process. This is done for many reasons including staging product prior to the next process, queueing product before transferring or providing storage for line operator duties. With three different VersaMove pallet system platforms, there’s a size to meet just about any production line.
Pallets, particularly workpiece pallets, can be accumulated on a number of different conveying surfaces. If you are looking for a multi-lane configuration, common in pallet conveying, with a low backpressure surface, you cannot beat the performance of an accumulating roller chain conveyor.
mk North America is proud to announce that Dave Calvo has joined its team as the Project Engineer for VersaMove. mk also provides pallet systems and t-slot aluminum extrusion for companies all over the world.
Calvo joined mk in the closing months of 2014 to lead the charge on the newly branded product line VersaMove. VersaMove is a high quality modular pallet conveyor system that offers an unprecedented level of versatility in the manufacturing process. The system was designed from the ground up to not only improve manufacturing productivity and the quality of the finished product, but to allow for maximum process flexibility at the same time.
