For nearly 60 years, the Coupling Corporation of America has been making shaft couplings and keyless hubs for power plants, refineries, and large process plants. Their products are manufactured for applications like high-speed pumps, gas turbines, centrifugal compressors, aircraft applications, motor drives, auxiliary drive turbines, feed rollers, marine applications, high thermal growth equipment, and API 671 applications.<\/p>\n
Over the past few years, Coupling Corporation continued to expand, creating new products like their UltraFlexx Shaft Coupling, which provides the lowest spring rates in the industry and ensures longer lifetime and outstanding performance. Their couplings are used in some of the most critical and demanding operations\u2014making accuracy and precision in manufacturing an essential part of their process. To accommodate for their new growth, the Coupling Corporation decided to move its manufacturing plant to a 60 thousand-square-foot factory in Jacobus, PA. The new plant has given them the space they need to continue manufacturing their products, develop new products, balance and test their couplings and keyless hubs, and ship finished products to customers all over the United States.<\/p>\n
As part of their expansion process, workers began to see a need for a more effective material handling system for several of their work areas. In the past, workers used tow motors to move raw materials and finished products that can be very heavy. The tow motors were becoming very cumbersome, creating space issues, causing additional obstructions on the ground; they were unsafe, ineffective, and required bumpers to protect both the tow motor itself and the machining equipment around it. In order to use them correctly, Coupling Corporation had to hire experienced fork truck drivers to get into machines and move materials. As demand for their products increased, workers were beginning to realize that their old material handling strategy had become costly, impractical, ineffective, and dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1535","case_study","type-case_study","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n