Material Handling Solutions
If your product needs to move between machines, be packaged and crated, or if you need a fully automated flexible feeding system, JR Automation has the experience to create a world-class material handling solution.
What is material handling automation?
Material handling automation uses advanced technology to move parts or products where you need them, when you need them. Automated material handling looks for opportunities to integrate robotics or other technology into your facility, line, or system to ensure that all integration is efficient, safe, and ergonomic.
Benefits of material handling automation for your business
Automation positively impacts your business in several ways. Our customers have been able to increase efficiency and reliability throughout their manufacturing, shipping, and delivery processes—making their employees and their customers happier. By implementing automation in critical areas, our customers have been able to improve:
Examples of material handling automation in action
Material handling automation can drastically increase uptime. Relying on manual work can be slow, inconsistent, and even dangerous. Material handling robots, conveyors, and feeders can work simultaneously with consistency and flexibility. Our customers achieve excellent results with automated systems in their material handling processes.
Reliability and consistency
Our solutions can move parts carefully and quickly while reducing errors. Material handling automated systems can include sensors, robotics, conveyance, feeding systems, and other material handling technologies to meet production needs. One of our medical customers manufactures bottles of patented liquid throughout its facility in stages. The company’s preexisting system relied on operators, but it had higher failure and damage rates. The new system carried, rotated, and conveyed the bottles without splashing the liquid.
Reliability and consistency
Safety
Accuracy and repeatability
Labor management
Safety
When you have many processes with large and heavy parts, safety and product handling are crucial. We worked with a large medical company to achieve high-volume cycle rates with an integrated material handling robotic system. Three industrial robots worked together to handle large plates with heavy steel lids quickly and efficiently. The company’s application of robots in material handling increased worker safety by taking over the heavy lifting and completed a cycle rate of 200,000 assays per day.
Accuracy and repeatability
Automated material handling systems specialize in moving and placing the right components in the right spot (accuracy) every time (repeatability). Accuracy and repeatability can be a challenge for any business, but it is especially challenging to move thousands of small parts a day. One of our customers needed to load small inline blood filters quickly and with precise orientation for the different parts. We helped the company create a system that could pick-and-place with a cycle time of 1.2 seconds.
Labor management
The benefits of material handling automation translate to better management of your team. Your team can transition to oversight, complex, or specialized roles while guided vehicles or robotics do repetitive material transportation. You can move parts, supplies, and products according to what is most efficient. We work with you to ensure your automation system solution uses human labor when necessary and useful to productivity.
What JR Automation can do for your material handling needs
We create customized solutions for your applications, and we build those solutions using our decades of experience in several industries. When you work with JR Automation, we can share our ideas and build on previous systems to create a custom material handling solution for your unique needs.
JR Automation Material Handling Capabilities
Our material handling solutions include conveyance, gantry systems, collaborative and industrial robots, automated-guided vehicle integrations, and more. Our expertise includes:
Collaborative Robotics
Conveyor Integration
Feeding Integration
Flex Link Conveyors
Large Systems Conveyors
Linear Servo Gantry
Web Handling & Converting
Robotic Handling Solutions
Material Types Automation can Process for Material Handling Companies
Automated handling can improve accuracy, efficiency and safety in operations for material handling companies that work with a variety of goods and mediums. These can include:
- Materials (including sheet metal blanks, chemicals, woven/non-woven materials, injection-molded plastics, film, carbon fiber, elastomers, ceramics and composites).
- Food and consumables (including raw meat goods, dairy products, liquids, powders, solids, bottles/caps, test strips, dental appliances and syringes).
- Machinery and components (including springs, tubing, optics, electronics, and plastic parts).
- Packaging (including both primary and secondary packaging, as well as packaging collateral).
Applicable Industries
20+
locations worldwide
2,000+
talented employees
2M+
sq. ft. building space
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The customer's current assembly technology was no longer sufficient. In order to accommodate new part designs and increase the speed and quality of production, JR designed and built an enhanced precision fuel injector assembly system. Each injector consisted of almost twenty small parts. The challenge was taking existing assembly technology and enhancing that to accommodate new configurations required by a European auto manufacturer. External dimensions, internal components assembly, and performance specifications were changes that the manufacturer sought from the team’s new design.
Technical Capabilities Involed:
- vision applications
- inspection testing
- material handling solutions
- assembly solutions
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