Flotron is a leading manufacturer of standard and custom-engineered extractors and holding fixtures for the telecommunications, automotive assembly, electronics, aerospace, and defense industries. Located in Vista, California, Flotron\u2019s manufacturing plant has more than 25,000 square feet of production space. The facility is used to design and produce a large selection of rotational fixtures, and their products allow manufacturers to change the orientation of sensitive parts throughout the soldering and fabrication processes.<\/p>\n
Flotron\u2019s production space is divided into several work areas including welding, machining, fabrication, and shipping. Until recently, workers in Flotron\u2019s manufacturing facility used a 5,000-pound capacity cherry picker to hoist parts and transfer products from one section of their plant to another. However, as Flotron began working more extensively with manufacturers in the aerospace industry, they realized they needed a larger system with more control.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Flotron\u2019s Quality Control Manager, John Donovan, contacted one of Spanco\u2019s third-party distributors, Advanced Industrial Solutions, to inquire about a high capacity material handling solution with enough control to lift and place heavy loads in tight spots. The five-pound capacity system they were using worked fairly well for smaller holding fixtures, however, as the size of their products continued to increase, so did the demand for a more effective material handling solution. This became especially problematic when workers needed to stack large rotational fixtures on palettes and then place them on the back of semi-trailers for transportation. Not only did their old system limit their lift power, it also lacked the control and efficiency to place large products in a precise and time effective manner. After analyzing their needs, Advanced Industrial Solutions partnered with Spanco to provide the best system possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1530","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n