3 Cost-Reducing Effects of Industrial Transfer Carts

As manufacturers facing increasing cost pressures, you are always looking for opportunities to optimize sourcing costs. All in all, wages and training costs aren't likely to drop anytime soon.

Using more efficient material handling solutions, including industrial transfer trolleys, is a frequent method by leading manufacturers to increase productivity while minimizing labor costs.

Industrial transfer trolleys, also known as self-propelled modular transporters, wheeled transfer trolleys, transporters, manually and autonomously guided vehicles, are workshop-level material handling vehicles to move large or heavy materials, parts and machinery.

Industrial transfer carts are generally battery powered, self-loaded and manually driven. They have a load carrying capacity of up to 100 tons, are capable of 360° movement and can rotate within their own footprint.

Industrial Transfer Carts help you reduce your costs in three important ways.

1. Lower Labor Costs

Moving large, heavy loads around a workshop with a forklift creates visibility and safety issues that often require a spotter in addition to the driver.

There is also additional cost for the operator who must load and unload conventional material handling systems. For example, in drag chains, loads must be placed on trolleys using another system, such as a winch. This means that the act of placing a large, heavy load on a cart may require three workers: one to operate the crane, one to attach and remove the hook, and one to act as a security guard.

Industrial transfer carts are operated remotely by only one worker. The solo operator walks alongside the unit and has an unobstructed view of the path ahead, next to, behind and above the load. This means that replacing forklifts and overhead cranes with industrial transfer carts has the potential to cut your labor costs by two-thirds.

2. Lower Education Costs

It takes less time and less cost for an operator to learn to operate an industrial transfer cart than teaching the same worker to operate a forklift or overhead crane because industrial transfer carts are simpler and pose virtually no risk to operate.

3. Fewer Occupational Accidents

The direct and indirect safety costs of transport systems associated with overhead cranes, forklifts, conveyors and other conventional vehicles are higher (4 to 10 times higher than direct costs).

For example, forklifts result in an average of 85 deaths and approximately 35,000 injuries per year in the United States. An average of 41 crane-related deaths occur annually in the United States.

Industrial transfer trolleys, on the other hand, lift their loads just a few inches off the ground.

An operator can safely transport loads up to 100 tons. Radio remote operation provides 100% visibility around as the operator walks alongside the unit while it is in motion, giving the operator a clear field of view at all times. Ground-level movement also protects workers and loads, as low-profile operation eliminates dangerous overhead movements.

This means that safety risks are low with industrial transfer carts; This translates into reductions in workplace injuries and deaths, as well as reductions in costs associated with workplace safety violations and fines.

There are many ways you can choose to reduce your costs. In industrial transfer trolleys, this direction can be 360°. Training reduces labor costs as well as the number of costly workplace accidents, injuries and deaths.

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