Electronically-controlled driverless train integrates warehousing, small parts storage, parts manufacturing, assembly lines, shipping, and receiving; train consists of tractor that hauls 3 or 4 trailers (each trailer is unusual combination of hydraulic pallet truck and plywood wing pallet) on loop track throughout plant; train makes approximately three round trips per hour and moves most of plant's materials -- between work centers, between stockroom and assembly lines, from work centers to stockroom, and between shipping dock and stockroom at Union Special Machine Co, Huntley, Ill.
New system solves three handling problems
Matl Handling Eng
Material Handling Engineering ; 21 , n 4
1966
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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