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News Release from: Jervis B. Webb | Subject: Material handling
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2007
Automotive manufacturer revamps material
handling
Jervis B Webb has won a contract with Chrysler Group to install a material handling system at the St Louis Plant, Missouri, to include six miles of conveyor and 50 SmartCarts.
Jervis B Webb Company, a world leader in material handling solutions, has announced business with automotive manufacturer Chrysler Group to install a material handling system and renovate existing systems at the company's St Louis Missouri South Assembly plant Webb also will deliver 50 of its SmartCart Automatic Guided Carts (AGC) for use in the plant's general assembly facility
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project is scheduled to be complete by the fourth quarter of 2007.
"Throughout the company's history, Webb has built its reputation and expertise on the ability to provide automotive customers with reliable and innovative material handling systems," said Bruce Buscher, vice president of automotive and industrial sales and marketing.
"The work that we are doing with the Chrysler Group demonstrates our value as a solution-based supplier with the flexibility to custom-build a system that addresses a manufacturer's specific needs".
Webb will install a total of six miles of new conveyor throughout the St.
Louis facility; two miles within the body shop and four miles in the general assembly facility.
The new conveyor will consist of Webb's Inverted Power and Free and Overhead Power and Free systems.
Power and Free conveyors are ideally suited for demanding industrial environments that require a high degree of versatility and dependability, as well as the ability to stop individual loads without disrupting an entire production line.
In addition to the new conveyor, Webb will also renovate the existing material handling systems in the body shop, and final assembly shop.
For the plant's paint shop, the work will include installation of a Selectivity Bank , which will be utilised for resequencing painted vehicle bodies prior to trimming.
In the general assembly, Webb is integrating a SmartCart system comprised of 50 new SmartCart AGCs.
SmartCart is a cost-effective vehicle guided by magnetic tape.
Its flexibility allows manufacturers to change and install the guidepath quickly and easily - sometimes in a matter of hours.
The SmartCart's carrier can be replaced to accommodate different types of products.
Chrysler Group plans to use the SmartCarts for transporting vehicle instrument panels.
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