Bumper Slides

The same problem for the packaging line spilled over into the assemble line. To reduce the material handling time of welders and polishers, I designed a slide to move bumpers down the line. Eventually, the bumper slides were placed between every station on the line. I also had jib cranes installed to reduce the use of gantry cranes for loading and unloading bumpers from the slide system.

Roller Bed Project

In the Summer of 2020, Hammerhead Armor’s sells were up but production was slow. Our line wasn’t able to keep up with the consistent orders, and it was clearly affecting Hol-Mac. The current production line had did not have an efficient way to move freshly powder-coated bumpers to packaging. Bumpers sat on the ground and took two employees to move; wasting time and money.

I was tasked with designing and building a roller bed for the packaging line to improve the production time. I designed a modular roller bed system that was built in house using laser cut parts and a CNC press brake. In order to save money, I sourced the rollers from old roller beds and designed an electrolysis system to clean the rollers for use. The electrolysis system used a dedicated arc gouging machine at 400 amps to completely clean 6 rollers in 10 minutes. The picture below shows the water boiling as the reaction takes place.