Electrical, Automation & Mechanical Applications
Our Engineering and Design team is staffed with high calibre mechanical, electrical, mechatronic, structural and systems engineers ; mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic designers; specialists in software and hardware design and development of software for PLC, Robotic, Safety Controllers, HMI’s and SCADA systems and communications networks.
This is complimented by project managers and safety assurance practitioners, integration and commissioning experts, all highly experienced with the delivery of complex projects and special purpose equipment.
Experience in all facets of project delivery is the key differentiator and value proposition in all aspects of our capabilities offered to customers.
We tailor our service offerings to suit specific customer and project requirements, and welcome early engagement of our services in a project’s development, for optimising design and delivery phases.
1. Assembly lines
Turnkey delivery of simple and complex manufacturing assembly lines including integration with production control systems.
Our experience includes:
- Car body welding lines
- carbon fibre composite manufacturing lines
2. Automated Industrial Materials Handling
Our expertise in automated industrial materials handling spans a wide range of advanced solutions, including the following:
- Specialist modified and upgraded fork trucks
- Automated Guided Vehicles
- Gantries, Hoists, Cranes, Elevators
- Conveyors, Indexers, Walking beams
- Robots, Manipulators
- Lifters and drop lifts
- Buffer storage, assembly line decoupling, transfer systems
- Ergonomic assistance devices
3. Automated rail maintenance facilities
Rail car overhaul facilities from highly automated, to fully automated with no operator intervention
- Highly automated bogie overhaul facilities
- Inspection and triage cells
- Wheel, axle, bogie, bearing workshops
- Wheel farms
- Indexers, shunter integration,
4. Automated Testing Equipment
Our capabilities in automated testing equipment encompass a variety of advanced systems designed for precision and reliability, including the following:
- Bearing clearance testers
- Wheelset gauge measurement
- Wheel wear, out of round, condemning limit reached, crack detection
- Axle crack detection, condemning limit reached,
5. Bespoke rail workshop machines
Our expertise in bespoke rail workshop machines includes a comprehensive range of specialized equipment tailored for precision and efficiency, such as the following:
- Wheel mount and demount presses (brake disc option)
- Bearing mount and demount presses
- Portal Wheel Lathes
- Underfloor Tandem and Single axle wheel lathes (brake disc option)
- Traction motor wheelset drop tables
- Bogie and wheelset turntables
- Draft gear and coupler removal and installation trolleys
- Design end effectors\
- Lifting and handling systems
- Robotic work cells
6. Food packaging cells
Our advanced food packaging cells incorporate a variety of innovative solutions designed for efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability, including the following:
- Palletisers and de-palletisers
- Transfers, accumulators and sorters
- Robot cells, special purpose grippers and end effectors
- Vison systems, optical scanners and foreign object detection
- Conveyor, elevator, and transfer systems
- Tooling for product and variants
- HMI’s, production systems, displays and monitors
7. Manufacturing and Production Facilities
All facets of design, fabrication and automation for:
- Vehicle body weld lines
- Sub assembly stations
- Drivetrain assembly lines, stations and fixtures
- Truck cabin assembly lines
- Trailer weld lines
- Medical ventilator assembly stations
8. Palletising Cells
Our palletising cells are designed to handle a diverse range of materials and packaging requirements with automated precision including the following:
- Standard and bespoke pallet sizes
- Palletising of a wide range of materials size, shape, weight, density
- Automated protective wrapping of loaded pallet
- Printing and attaching waybills, BOMs, destination and tracking information, trackers
9. Process Cells
Our process cells incorporate a range of advanced systems for efficient and high-quality manufacturing processes, including the following:
- Ovens
- Painting lines
- Autoclaves
- Washing systems
10. Stacking and retrieval systems
All facets of design, selection, configuration, and software coding
- From small goods to materials weighing several tonnes
- Loading and unloading stations
- Manufacture, install, commission
- Interfacing with production and supervisory systems
11. Welding cells
Our welding cells are engineered to enhance precision, efficiency, and automation in welding processes, featuring the following advanced solutions
- Design and implementation of jigs and fixtures for weld stations
- Automation of complex or repetitive welding with dedicated or bespoke welding robots and transfer units
- Rotators and transfer devices
- Ergonomic tooling and assistance devices
