AS/RS, Positioning System
Accurate, high-speed positioning for cranes and hoists with automatic anti-skew control.
A printing industry customer was using (6) of the aging TCS-4000 units for positioning their automatic storage and retrieval cranes. There were a total of (2) units on each of (3) cranes. Downtime was extremely critical for this customer, as they were in the middle of their busy season. Unfortunately for them, this was exactly when their last spare units began to fail.
The Nol-Tec Positioning System is the ONLY Allen-Bradley based, drop-in, plug-and-play replacement for the aging Geotronics TCS-4000 and the Trimble ICS-5000 on the market. When these products fail, the Nol-Tec has the solution. In RS232 applications, it transparently replaces your existing positioning system. DeviceNet, Profibus, Ethernet and other networks are also available.
Nol-Tec Systems Southeast was able to replace the legacy products with extremely limited downtime. The only work required was to mount the new lasers and controllers, and reconnect the associated wiring. Once installed, a simple tuning was all that was needed to get them running. This was all completed in a matter of hours.
These cranes are highly critical to the customer's operation since they store and retrieve 100% of the in-process inventory. The range of the laser in this application exceeds 400', with less than 2" physical position tolerance. The Nol-Tec Positioning System is accurate to 6mm, or less than 1/4". The upgrade was a complete success and the customer experienced minimal down-time.
Testimonial:
"I received a call... asking if Nol-Tec could come in and install an update... It is a breath of fresh air to have a vendor fulfill a promise without constant harassment to follow thru with commitments. I have in good faith been waiting quietly for an update and out of nowhere here it is. Your group is one of a few that does this, for most of the time I have to jump up and down over and over to get vendors to follow thru with commitments."
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