Assembly lines for manual manufacturing

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Assembly lines with item – the one-stop shop

Design and build a smooth, uninterrupted value stream using assembly lines from item. Thanks to the modularity of the item Work Bench System, interlinking pre-existing workbenches is easy. Assembly lines can be flexibly adapted and extended, meaning you don’t need to completely reconfigure your production line. That’s the best way to implement one-piece flow and other lean philosophy principles on an efficient and ergonomic basis.

Assembly lines – example solutions for practical use

Ready-to-use assembly lines from item give you the ideal basis for achieving smooth production processes. Find out more about our sample solutions.

Racks and trolleys, conveying technology and more

Support smooth-running production processes with flexible material supply solutions such as conveying technology, racks and trolleys. It’s the best way to keep your materials close to hand.

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Assembly lines with item – practical sample solutions

Whether you need a U-shaped cell or just simply interlinked workstations, you can connect together your workbenches with flow racks and conveying technology to create complete assembly lines. That helps you keep production running smoothly. Thanks to the consistent application of modular principles, you can tailor your assembly lines to fit your requirements perfectly.

U-shaped cell made of interlinked workstations

This lean workbench cell – a U-shaped cell comprising interlinked work benches – is perfect for implementing principles such as one-piece flow. In this system, one employee accompanies one workpiece through the entire production process. The workpiece moves quickly and accurately over roller conveyors to the next processing station. FIFO racks ensure that the required materials are always in easy reach precisely where they’re needed.

Three interlinked work benches with a FIFO rack

Connect several workstations with roller conveyors. To make sure production parts can be moved quickly from one workstation to the next, you can join together several work benches with roller conveyors. Guide rails on the tables keep handling processes dependable and efficient. Using transfer gates helps to reliably separate workpieces and workpiece carriers and bring them to a stop at the processing stations. Integrated flow racks also keep material supplies flowing.

The benefits of assembly lines built with item

item assembly lines can help you keep materials flowing steadily and reduce throughput times with precision. The building kit principle ensures you can connect together individual workstations without any difficulty to create a bigger whole. This modular concept, coupled with a wide range of material supply and picking solutions and other accessories, also means that assembly line manufacturers can adapt their lines to fit specific workpiece transport requirements precisely, achieve seamless integration and even reconfigure layouts to optimise lines at a later date.

Keep your production flowing by structuring working processes efficiently. Assembly lines from item make it easy to roll out lean principles such as one-piece flow. Under this principle, one person accompanies a workpiece through the entire production process, with roller conveyors efficiently transporting it from one processing station to the next. That removes the need for intermediate storage and eliminates waiting times.

item Suspended Conveyor System

You’re working with parts that are bulky, flexible, inherently unstable, or can easily get tangled? Just hang them up when moving them through your assembly line!

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