Beck Bailer Beck’s newest innovation enables the fully automatic assembly of metal handles on buckets in a cycle time of 3.5 seconds. The system orients the buckets, selects a precut metal rod, adds a grip roller, bends the rod into the appropriate shape and presses the rod.
What’s new? The system, shown at the K Show.
Benefits Versatility and speed. The system can work with buckets in a variety of shapes and sizes.
Beck Automation AG, Oberengstringen, Switzerland, 41-44-751-8444, www.beck-automation.com
Vital Statistics
Cycle time | 3.5 seconds per bucket/handle |
Eligible bucket diameters | From about 6.9 inches to nearly 15 inches |
Eligible bucket heights | From about 3.9 inches to 17.7 inches |
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
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