Workplace injuries cost up to $54 billion every year against lost productivity, worker’s compensation, and lost wages. It has become mandatory for businesses to ensure workplace safety. They can find ways to enhance employee safety via planning improvements and conducting routine audits for adjusting. In warehouses and dispatch centers, lifting equipment is the best ergonomic solution.
The equipment lessens the need to lift, twist, bend, turn or stretch. You will find lifting equipment like scissor lifts, forklifts, hoists, stackers, tilters, pallet trucks, conveyors, hoists, and upenders in the market.
Mechanical updenders are even called coil positioners as they rotate products. It helps in myriads of production and maintenance tasks that need turning, rotating, or positioning awkward or heavy loads.
TopIndustries has designed pallet upender equipment in semi and fully-automatic versions. It helps to upend paper rolls and steel coils with ease. The paper rolls are tipped easily on their sides before unwinding. The steel coils are tipped to their vertical position for easy pallet loading and transportation.
Upender is generally used to turn heavy, bulky objects during the manufacturing process. It lifts the load and maneuvers it making the product more accessible during manufacturing.
How to use Roll & Coil upender?
- Place a paper roll or steel coil on the equipment.
- Push the button and see the load getting upended/
- Now remove the load.
Upender is easy and quick. It is useful in tipping loaded pallets around your facility. You can integrate pallet upenders with any kind of material handling system with ease. Their function is to Downend or upends load to an angle of 90°.
Besides, the distribution center and warehouse the 90°upender or tipped are used in automotive, manufacturing, coil handling, steel or aluminum industries, forging, die splitter, injection mold maintenance, etc. There are sectors where the workers have to handle heavy materials. They can benefit from material handling equipment like pallet exchangers and upenders. It not just protects employees but even enhances work efficiency and productivity.
Upender or tipper is a crucial investment for any manufacturing or warehouse facility. Using the equipment, operators can easily tip unit load to swap the plastic or broken pallet with a new one or allow the repositioning of awkward and huge products efficiently. Even if the warehouse has narrow space, the equipment helps to flip bulky items 90° and palletize them for shipping. The upender is equipped with awesome control features. It ensures the unit load gets oriented and placed precisely on the pallet.
Today, businesses are struggling to keep consumers satisfied. They are still fighting against pandemic shocks, supply and labor shortages, and endless disruptions. It will pass but chances like increases in D2C and e-commerce sales are permanent. The supply chain leaders can consider the automated inline pallet exchange system. They can be easily integrated with your current system seamlessly.
Workers are the heart of every warehouse, so ergonomics plays a huge role. Investing in ergonomic manual handling equipment is the best solution. It even helps to complete the order fulfillment process with speed and accuracy. Watch the video on how TopIndustries L-shape Silver Upender works on their website and follow on LinkedIn!