Category Archives: Case Studies
GoLift 3 Replaced by GoLift 9
An All Power, Counterbalanced, Compact Lifting Machine
For the last few years, the GoLift GL3 was our heavy lifter with no front stabilizers. The design was often required when the load did not allow for the front stabilizers to engage below or to the side of the load. However, our GoLifts have evolved a lot over the past couple years. With the birth of the GL7, the GoLift earned it’s title as the most compact lift. The single rear wheel allows it to move in 360 degrees, within it’s own footprint! That is a really nice feature when working it tight quarters. The GL3 was the bulkiest of our machines because of the counterbalance weight required to lift over 350 pounds with no front stabilizers. The four wheel with powered rear wheels design worked great in many environments but had a few draw backs. Such issues included; if the load was driving across a side slant, the machine would tend to crab walk down the incline and turning the machine required some physical exertion on the part of the user. The all new GL9 takes the best of the GL3 and GL7 to create an all power, compact, counterbalanced lifting device.
Modified GoLift Concept Cart
Battery Powered Laundry Cart Lifts & Dumps
ERGOdynamics has designed the concept for this modified GL7 GoLift in order to create a self propelled laundry cart. Lifting heavy loads of laundry is a serious injury risk for those working in the service industry. This particular hotel has laundry chutes on each floor. Large loads of laundry, sometimes wet and very heavy and awkward, are moved from a push cart into the chute by hand.
The modified GoLift power laundry cart will have no lifting mast like most GoLifts. In it’s place will be a powered dumping laundry tote. The battery operated cart is designed to handle up to 500 lbs of laundry. The body of the cart is made of a heavy fabric to prevent pinch point associated with a solid container.
This self propelled laundry cart is a perfect example of how ERGOdynamics can develop custom material handling equipment to provide an ergonomic safe working environment.
Power Window Opener
Automatically Open & Close Privacy Windows
Why you need a powered window opener
Does your office have privacy windows that need to be opened and then closed each time you speak to a patient, customer or client? The motion of reaching up and out and exerting enough force to slide the window open and closed poses injury risk to the worker’s shoulder.
Shoulder injuries are one of the most prevalent on-the-job injuries today. Many of these shoulder injuries result in time loss and permanent restricted tasks and postures. Prevention is always less expensive than reaction when it comes to on the job injuries. So consider this; how many times per day does the receptionist reach to open and close a privacy window? In most offices the window is situated in a way that the reach falls within extended reach areas. We’ve spoken about extended reach and the dangers it poses before. Even though the window requires only a few pounds, normally less than 6, when that force is required at arms length the perceived force effect is multiplied several times. Try this; hold a full cup of coffee like you would normally. Take note of the weight you are sensing. Now hold that same cup at arms length. You should notice a significant difference. An average cup of coffee in a mug weighs about 1 lb. Make a guess about how much weight your feeling when your arm is extended. Now multiply that by 5 or 6 and you have an idea of what it’s like to open and close a privacy window. Count the repetitions and you have an accumulated force/weight for the day.
New Tool for GoLift
Roll Handling Device for GoLift Compact Vertical Lifts
The GoLift 5 is a battery powered, compact, vertical lift with lift capacities ranging from 300lb to 600lb. Here is a pre-delivery demonstration of a new roll handling device that will be used to lift and place these 350 pound rolls of plastic water bottle labels onto a boom that feeds the labels into the machine that places the labels onto the bottles. You can see that the lifting mechanism only partially engages the core of the roll, allowing room for the roll to be installed while still on the lift. The lift is modified with guides, specialized for this manufacturer, that allows the worker to easily engage the core by simply pushing the machine up to the roll until the guides bump the roll itself, perfecting aligning roll core and roll engagement tool. Rolls can be lifting from a pallet where they are stored vertically and rotated to a horizontal position for installation. An expanding mandrel allows this to occur without ever touching the fragile plastic label material, where as a fork or clamp lifting device may cause damage to the roll material.
This machine demonstrates our lower cost, manual rotation, human powered push with powered vertical lift. Want an all power machine? REQUEST A QUOTE online or CONTACT US.
Cost Effective Ergonomic Solutions
(We thought) We can’t afford an adjustable work table
Top on New Frame
There are solutions!
Has an insurance company or your ergonomist told you that you need to consider replacing all your tables or work benches with new adjustable height work stations to prevent work related injuries? Working on surfaces at the incorrect height often cause pain & stress to the back, neck and shoulders. Working too high can be just as troublesome as working too low. Too low and the worker is constantly bending over, a real risk for low back injury. Working at a surface that is too high and the worker places too much strain on shoulders, upper back and neck.
