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SSI SCHAEFER adds New Products to the Miniload family

SSI Schaefer is adding storage and retrieval devices to the Schaefer Miniload Crane family with two compact twin-mast devices. Newly developed drive technology enables fast, vibration-dampened transport of loads weighing up to 660 lbs at heights of up to 78 feet.  

For CeMAT 2011, SSI Schaefer added two new  Miniload Cranes to its product portfolio. These add an automated shelf solution for containers, boxes, and trays. The SMC 2 and SMC 2 XL were designed in response to market requirements for dynamic processes for higher loads.

Based on the two new SMC 2 machines customers can use a closed lifting trolley to hold two standard or one large piece of load-carrying equipment. The new machines can access heights of up to 39 ft (SMC 2) or 78 ft (SMC 2 XL) resulting in high payloads and greater throughput.

Irrespective of their different features, all models in the SMC family are designed using the modular principle. An extensive array of tested components are available for the Schaefer Miniload Cranes. Schaefer supplies the single-mast devices up to 36 ft tall fully assembled while, other SMC’s, ranging from ground beam, mast, lifting trolley and head section to on-board drive and control cabinet, are supplied fully pre-assembled, with the main modules commissioned in the factory. This ensures short assembly times and convenient adaptation to the user‘s individual application.

Customers can choose from a wide range of equipment features to individually tailor an SMC.  For example, Schaefer can provide the lifting trolleys with a host of load-carrying equipment ranging from combined telescopes, grippers, and pulling fixtures for containers or trays to box and package grippers.  

As in the first series, the cranes of the SMC 2 series offer impressive and extremely stable masts and optimum use of space due to their low clearances. A special production process incorporates very high resistance torque, in spite of their low inherent weight. The twin-mast variant can move up to 660 lbs (SMC 2 XL) in a distribution center with closed load-carrying equipment.

The on-board control cabinet is an eye-catching and significant feature of the SMC family, and is found in the SMC 2 variants, as well. The mast reinforcement strut is guided through a recessed groove  allows the control cabinet to integrate into the device conserving space. This particular design feature also prevents the mast from vibrating, and perfectly guides the forces to the chassis.  

Other quality features of the new SMC 2 include the usual standards for SSI Schaefer self-servicing devices. High quality, and tested machine elements produced in-house ensure low maintenance, as well as longevity.  SMC components are highly standardized both in terms of design and production, resulting in quick availability, short assembly, and start-up times.

Green Crane technology, from SSI Schaefer, also ensures minimal energy consumption. Examples of this technology include: a DC network of drive controllers, or energy-optimized overlapping of motion to use and recover braking energy. This approach both conserves the environment and saves money.

Schaefer Systems International, Inc., the North American subsidiary of the SSI SCHAEFER group of companies, established headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1989.

 

SCHAEFER’s automation integrates to any existing system earning us an international reputation as the global leader in the material-handling industry for returnable packaging, static racking, and highly complex, automated distribution systems. With over 70 years of experience and a 100% commitment to quality behind every SSI Schafer system, we focus on providing our clients with unconventional picking and storage solutions delivering best value