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How to Add Value to Pre-Engineered Manufacturing Equipment

Bay Industrial Group understands the complex needs of a variety of different manufacturing and production industries. They know that most businesses cannot get by with a cookie cutter solution. This is why Bay Industrial Group works directly with their customers to create not only manufacturing equipment but rather manufacturing solutions to complex manufacturing challenges. These solutions are designed with each customer’s individual needs in mind.

Typically Bay Industrial Group will incorporate standard designed equipment into their customer’s project in order to provide them with their own unique solution. By utilizing proven technology whenever possible, Bay Industrial Group is able to provide reliable and effective systems in a much shorter period of time. This unique and cost effective custom-designed approach can be utilized in a variety of different applications including:

  • Floor conveyors
  • Overhead Equipment

Bay Industrial Group utilizes specialized tooling to transform all types of manufacturing and production concerns into reliable and proven manufacturing solutions. Examples of these unique solutions include:

  • Belt conveyors and slat conveyors with attached custom tooling and/or fixtures
  • Monorail conveyor supporting and indexing assembly tools with custom electrification for ergonomic assembly stations
  • Electric chain hoist supporting custom fixtures to allow for infinite height adjustment
  • Simple pneumatic lifts supporting conveyor sections in order to accept and position weld fixtures, allowing the operator to access hard to reach areas
  • Tandem driven screw jacks used to evenly press and/or form long material
  • Light duty crane rails used as guide rails for either vertical or horizontal motions, such as in walking beams and vertical lifting equipment

Some of the distributor products and pre-engineered equipment offered by Bay Industrial Group include:

  • Conveyors
  • Work Stations/Rail Systems/Balancers
  • Custom Conveyors by Bay Industrial Group
  • Custom Equipment by Bay Industrial Group
  • Hoists
  • Ladders/Platforms
  • Lift Tables/Stackers/Dock Equipment
  • Racks and Shelving
  • Work Stations/Tables/Carts
  • Storage Systems/Storage Bins
  • Castors

Bay Industrial Group’s process for designing and implementing a solution for manufacturing and production challenges is comprehensive and highly effective. They work directly with their customers from the concept design all the way to the just-in-time manufacturing. Their highly experienced staff and fully equipped manufacturing facility allows them to create prototypes of all concepts and fully test and de-bug them before presenting them to their customers for approval. This greatly reduces downtime and disruptions to the customer’s manufacturing process. This unique approach lowers costs, increases productivity, improves quality control and provides customers with a much better return on their investment.

For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.

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Overhead Equipment and Systems for a Variety of Industries

Overhead cranes are typically used to move extremely heavy and awkward items from one place to another. The weight capacity of overhead cranes can range from 2 to 3 tons to 500 tons or more. Some of the most common types of overhead cranes include overhead bridge cranes, workstation cranes, manipulators, monorails, jib cranes, gantry systems and many more.

With so many individual manufacturing needs, overhead cranes have become an indispensible tool for many different industries. In fact a large number of industries utilize overhead cranes for a number of different applications. These industries include:

  • Steel Mills
  • Petroleum Production
  • The Automotive Industry
  • The Construction Industry
  • Power Plants
  • The Aerospace Industry
  • The Pharmaceutical Industry
  • The Railroad Industry
  • Appliance Industries
  • Woodworking Industries

In the 1950s and 1960s, as technology progressed, especially in the field of electronics, industries were being pressured to increase production while still employing the same amount of floor space. Equipment that could move materials overhead offered several advantages over their competitors in the broadly defined materials handling industry. Today, overhead cranes are still utilized in work environments that are unable to accommodate a floor conveyor, or that have limited floor space.

There are several different types of overhead cranes, all of which serve different purposes. An overhead bridge crane runs on an elevated runway system and provides three axes of hook motion. A gantry crane is similar to a bridge crane except it runs on a track at floor level. The bridge carries the hoist and trolley and is supported by a pair of rigid steel legs which are carried by a pair of end trucks along the floor level runway. A jib crane consists of a pivoting head and boom assembly which carries a hoist and trolley unit. The pivoting head is supported by a floor-mounted mast that provides 360 degrees of boom rotation or by an existing building column which provides 180 degrees of boom rotation. A monorail is specialized equipment that can be extremely effective when properly designed. Only two directions of hook travel are afforded by the monorail; either up and down or along the axis of the monorail beam.

Many different industries can benefit from using overhead equipment for a number of different applications. When properly used, overhead equipment can increase the speed at which things get accomplished, help workers safely transport heavy objects and improve a company’s overall efficiency. Bay Industrial Group offers extensive knowledge and experience on all types of overhead equipment and systems. They work directly with your company to design overhead solutions that fit your specific industry’s needs.  For more information please contact Bay Industrial Group today.