Machine Guards
Machine Guard Rails
A machine guard rail protects a line rather than a point. Two bolt-down posts carry one or two horizontal rails along the aisle side of a machine, a…
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Industry Application
Machine protection and scrap handling inside the plant
Inside a plant the traffic does not stop at the dock. Pallet trucks pass work cells, control panels and rack ends all shift, and every machine produces scrap that has to leave the cell.
Pain Points
What Goes Wrong In Manufacturing Plants
Fork truck strikes on machine frames and control panels
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Rack end frames damaged by pallet entry
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Swarf and offcuts handled by hand
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Scrap bins that cannot be tipped without a crane
Covered by the equipment listed below.
Recommended Equipment
The S&L Lines Specified For This Environment
Two guard products for the traffic side of a cell and two hopper ranges for what the cell produces. The pairing is deliberate: protection and scrap removal are the two recurring costs inside a plant.
Machine Guards
Rack Guards
A rack guard is deliberately low. At 9 inches it takes the hit from a fork tine or a pallet corner without fouling the pallet that has to be entered…
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Steel Hoppers
Stackable Self-Dumping Hoppers
The HOP series is the core of the S&L hopper range: eighteen published models across three duty classes. The duty class is set by the steel gauge, 12…
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Steel Hoppers
Low Profile Self-Dumping Hoppers
A low profile hopper is the one that fits under a machine bed, a press bolster or a conveyor discharge. The smallest in this range stands 18-1/4…
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How To Specify
From Site Walk To Purchase Order
- Walk the site and list every position where traffic, a gap or a drum is handled today
- Match each position to a published S&L model code from the product pages
- Check the constraints that cannot be changed later: fork pocket centres, headroom, service range, yard surface
- Send the code list with quantities and the destination port
- Confirm anything marked TBC before the order is placed
Solutions For This Sector
Questions
Manufacturing Plants Supply Questions
Which S&L products are specified most often in manufacturing plants?
Machine Guard Rails, Rack Guards, Stackable Self-Dumping Hoppers, Low Profile Self-Dumping Hoppers.
Can these be quoted as one package?
Yes. Give the model codes and quantities and they are quoted together and consolidated into one shipment.
What is the main risk this equipment addresses here?
Fork truck strikes on machine frames and control panels.
Does S&L publish load ratings for all of these?
For most lines, yes. Where a rating is not published — steel dock boards and wheel chocks — the product page says so and the figure is confirmed at quotation.
Specify For Manufacturing Plants
Send the list of positions you need to cover and we will come back with model codes, quantities and a quotation against them.