Material Handling
Crimson Industrial Supplies offers comprehensive material handling solutions, from simple transfer stations to automated storage and retrieval systems. Our experienced team excels in electrical, mechanical, and software design, ensuring efficient concept optimization and simulation prior to production, assembly, and installation.
We set the discipline that applies engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines since early times.
Technically, mechanical engineering is the application of the principles and problem-solving techniques of engineering from design to manufacturing to the marketplace for any object. Mechanical engineers analyze their work using the principles of motion, energy, and force.
Our Products and Solutions
- AR/RS
- Conveyors
- Kanban
- Manipulators
- Pick and Place System
- Walking Beam Transfer System
Crimson Industrial Supplies provides advanced Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) for warehouses with high-volume loads. Our ASRS is ideal for warehouses with space limitations, where accuracy is critical, and when preventing product damage is essential. Our computer-controlled system optimizes warehouse organization, creating additional storage space while reducing labor costs and increasing safety. ASRS simplifies item tracking and centralizes data management, enabling seamless order processing and logistics management. Let us help you streamline your warehouse operations and maximize efficiency with our state-of-the-art ASRS solution.
Crimson Industrial Supplies offers customized conveyor solutions for diverse industries, designed, manufactured, and installed to meet your specific requirements. Our conveyor systems cater to a broad range of applications, including transportation, sorting, and storage of goods. We utilize the latest technology and industry expertise to design and manufacture conveyors that deliver high levels of performance, reliability, and efficiency. Our experienced team ensures seamless installation and commissioning, with minimal disruption to your operations. Partner with us to achieve efficient material handling and seamless automation of your production line.
Gravity Conveyors
Gravity conveyors offer a cost-effective solution for mechanizing your operations without breaking the bank. These conveyors move items in any direction with minimal operating and maintenance expenses, relying on the force of gravity to achieve this efficiency. We harness this scientific principle to deliver high-performing conveyor systems with minimal energy consumption and low maintenance costs. Our gravity conveyors are versatile and adaptable, suitable for various industries and applications. Trust Crimson Industrial Supplies to provide you with a solution that delivers optimum performance and efficiency while keeping your expenses low.
Roller Conveyors
Crimson Industrial Supplies offers optimized roller conveyors for transporting a wide range of products, including crates, boxes, polybags, and pallets. Our roller conveyors are available in freewheel or electrically controlled versions, providing flexibility in layout, application, and budget. Our roller conveyors deliver high levels of efficiency, allowing for seamless integration into various phases of your product flow, from order picking and processing to packaging and transportation. The modular construction of our roller conveyors offers you further options for future modifications and extensions, ensuring your conveyor system remains relevant to your changing needs. Trust us to provide you with a reliable and high-performing roller conveyor solution that meets your specific requirements.
Belt Driven Conveyors
Crimson Industrial Supplies offers reliable and efficient belt conveyor systems that comprise two or more pulleys, with a continuous loop of material forming the conveyor belt. This belt moves rotationally around the drive and idler pulleys, with the powered pulley known as the drive pulley and the unpowered pulley referred to as the idler. Our belt conveyor systems utilize powered pulleys that drive the belt and the material on it forward, ensuring the smooth and efficient movement of products. Our belt conveyor systems are suitable for various applications, including transportation of bulk materials, such as grain and coal, and transporting products in manufacturing and distribution environments. Trust us to provide you with a high-performing belt conveyor system that meets your specific requirements.
Wheel Conveyors
At Crimson Industrial Supplies, we offer wheel conveyors, also known as skate wheel conveyors, as an excellent non-powered alternative to roller conveyors. These conveyors utilize a series of wheels mounted on different conveyor rail shapes and with various wheel patterns to configure conveyor lanes, both in horizontal push applications and slight decline angles for gravity flow solutions. Our wheel conveyors are versatile and ideal for transporting a variety of products, including boxes, totes, and cartons. Our team of experts will work closely with you to design and install a wheel conveyor system that best suits your unique application requirements. Trust us to provide you with a reliable and cost-effective solution for your material handling needs.
Where It Works
- Ware House and Distribution
- Manufacturing
- Order Fulfillment
- Aerospace
- Automotive
- Parcel Handling
- Appliance
- Carbinetry & Furniture
- Food & Beverage
Applications
- Convey loads of Cartons, Totes, Fixtures, Cardboard Boxes
Non-Contact Accumulation
Unitized
Pallet loads when bottom boards are perpendicular to the rollers
Pallet loads when bottom boards are parallel to the rollers
Sideloading/unloading
Accumulation of loads
To increase efficiency and minimize waste in production environments, Kanban systems are utilized to manage logistical chains effectively.
Crimson Industrial Supplies has a long-standing practice of implementing such systems, catering to the unique needs and concerns of each production environment, thereby improving the competitiveness of their clients’ production lines. They offer a broad range of solutions to achieve this objective.
Visualize the flow of work
The initial and crucial step towards implementing the Kanban Method involves creating a visual representation of your workflow process. This can be done either through a physical board or an electronic Kanban board, depending on the nature and complexity of your work. The Kanban board can range from a simple design to a more intricate one, depending on the work-mix and the types of items being delivered. Once the process is visualized, the current work being undertaken by you and your team can also be visualized with ease. This helps in gaining a better understanding of the workflow and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
Limit WIP (Work in Progress)
An essential aspect of implementing the Kanban Method is to restrict the amount of work-in-progress (WIP) at any given time, which operates on the principle of a ‘Pull-system’. By limiting the WIP, you encourage your team to focus on completing the existing work before taking up new tasks. This results in the completion of ongoing work, which creates additional capacity in the system, allowing for new tasks to be initiated. Initially, setting the appropriate WIP limits can be challenging, and you may opt to begin without any restrictions. However, determining the appropriate limits eventually is critical to the success of the Kanban system.
Manage Flow
The Kanban system’s primary focus is to manage and enhance the flow of work after implementing the initial two practices. By using the Kanban approach, you can effectively manage the flow of work by identifying the various stages of the workflow and the status of work at each stage. Depending on the effectiveness of your workflow design and the WIP limits you’ve set, you can either maintain a smooth flow within the established limits or observe work piling up as some tasks are delayed, causing a capacity bottleneck. This, in turn, impacts the overall workflow speed, also known as the value stream. The Kanban system aids in analyzing the workflow to identify opportunities for improvement and to reduce the time it takes to complete each work item. By continually making adjustments, you can enhance the flow of work, leading to increased productivity and efficiency.
Make Process Policies Explicit
Implement Feedback Loops
Feedback loops are essential components of any effective system. The Kanban Method promotes and facilitates the implementation of different types of feedback loops, such as review stages in your Kanban board workflow, metrics and reports, and a variety of visual cues that offer continuous feedback on work progress. Although the saying “Fail fast! Fail often!” may not be immediately comprehensible for some teams, the concept of receiving feedback early, especially if you’re headed in the wrong direction with your work, is crucial to ultimately delivering the right product or service to the customer as quickly as possible. Feedback loops play a critical role in ensuring that. Therefore, it’s important to constantly seek out and integrate feedback into your processes to continuously improve and refine your work.
Improve Collaboratively, Evolve Experimentally (using the scientific method)
The Kanban Method is a process of evolutionary improvement that enables teams to adopt small changes and improve gradually at a pace that’s manageable for them. It emphasizes the use of the scientific method: forming a hypothesis, testing it, and making adjustments based on the test results. As a team that’s implementing Lean/Agile principles, your primary objective is to continually evaluate your processes and continuously improve them as necessary and feasible. This involves being open to feedback, analyzing your performance data, and making data-driven decisions to enhance your work. By continuously seeking out opportunities to optimize your workflow, you can establish a culture of continuous improvement that helps you deliver high-quality results while maintaining efficiency and flexibility.
Crimson Industrial Suppliers is proud to offer a wide range of Manipulator solutions, tailored to meet your specific needs. From pneumatically-balanced lift assists to electronic Intelligent Lifting devices such as the Liftronic, manufactured by Scaglia Indeva, our knowledgeable team can help you find the right solution to overcome any challenge.
Our Liftronic Mobile is a versatile Indeva Lift Assist Device that can be easily mounted on an electrical pallet truck, allowing for safe and easy movement to wherever it’s needed. Its 4-jointed arm design offers smooth handling and precision, with a swivel joint on the end of the arm for continuous rotation around the gripper arms.
The Liftronic Mobile has many advantages, including easy interchange of grippers for handling different types of loads, auto-sensing and auto-balancing, easy battery replacement, and low carbon footprint. It’s also easy to maintain, with all components easily accessible behind a removable carter.
With a maximum load capacity of 60kg (including gripper), a vertical stroke of 1.5 metres, an arm length of 2530 mm, and autonomy of up to 6 hours for a continuous cycle, the Liftronic Mobile is a powerful tool for any workspace. The vacuum gripper uses air through the arm, eliminating the need for pipes, while the 24V/110A battery ensures long-lasting performance.
Whether you require a floor-mounted pillar type manipulator to serve a dedicated area or an overhead rail-mounted solution to cover a large area, Crimson Industrial Suppliers has the right solution for you. Trust our team to help you find the perfect Manipulator solution to meet your unique needs and keep your workplace safe and efficient.
Pick and place robots are versatile tools that can be used in various ways, depending on the product being handled and the manufacturer’s need for automation. There are four primary applications for pick and place robots:
Assembly: During assembly processes, pick and place robots can grab incoming parts from a conveyor belt and place them onto another workpiece, which is then typically transported away by another conveyor belt.
Packaging: Similar to assembly processes, pick and place robots can pick up parts from an incoming conveyor belt and place them into a packaging container at high speed, without assembling the parts.
Bin Picking: Pick and place robots equipped with advanced vision systems can efficiently extract parts from a bin, even when they are randomly mixed together, and place them onto a conveyor belt for production.
Inspection: Vision systems can monitor products moving on an incoming conveyor belt and identify any defective items, allowing pick and place robots to remove them before they reach the final stages of production.
Overall, pick and place robots offer manufacturers a reliable and efficient way to optimize their assembly line processes, whether they need to assemble, package, pick from a bin, or inspect their products.
Crimson Industrial Supplies is a reputable company that places great emphasis on producing high-quality walking beam transfer systems. These transfer systems are essential for efficient automated lines that require effective transportation of work in progress from one workstation to the next.
As a leading designer and manufacturer of complete assembly lines, Crimson Industrial Supplies is committed to developing, designing, and implementing efficient walking beam transfer systems. The company utilizes a range of techniques, from proven methods to innovative solutions, to help streamline your workflow process, either as a standalone addition or as part of an integrated assembly line solution.
Crimson Industrial Supplies understands the importance of reliable and effective transfer systems to optimize the overall performance of automated assembly lines. Therefore, the company strives to deliver high-quality walking beam transfer systems that can facilitate smooth and uninterrupted workflow processes. With their expertise and experience, Crimson Industrial Supplies is an ideal partner for businesses seeking to enhance their assembly line performance.
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