SUCCESS STORIES
Automated Conveyor System for SEW Eurodrive
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streamline the existing process for their
derivatives of geared motor units ranging
Eurodrive
range of drive equipment.
from 15kg to 1000kg, These units being
SEW Eurodrive are globally recognised
Working closely with the engineers at
loaded at one end of the factory and the
as market leaders in drive engineering
SEW Eurodrive, Amber Industries Ltd
system to have the ability for diverting
stretching across five continents and
developed a turnkey solution and was
product from daily business and coloured
employing 14000 people. When their
subsequently awarded the contract for
lanes together with a “Fast-Track lane”. The
new manufacturing facility at Normanton,
the new conveyor system utilising the
fast track lane that by passes normal daily
West Yorkshire was in the planning, SEW
standard Autotrack 500M Power & Free
business is very important to SEW as they
recognised this as an opportunity to
overhead conveyor (Fig. 1).
pride themselves upon their service of
introduce an automated conveyor system to
The brief given by Sew Eurodrive was
having the ability to deliver to customers
service the new paint plant facility that would
that the conveyor had to handle all
on an urgent basis.
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utomated Conveyor System for SEW
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Figure 1: Working closely with the engineers at SEW Eurodrive, Amber Industries Ltd developed a new conveyor system utilising the standard Autotrack 500M Power & Free overhead conveyor.
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