Case Study
Lifting the Burden of Old-Fashioned Lifting Magnets
Problem: Management at Custom Engineering, a fabrication and machining company, realized that employees in the company’s materials management crew were continually suffering from back injuries. To move heavy steel plates, operators were utilizing a manual-locking magnet suspended from an overhead crane. Employees were forced to reach across plates or climb on top of them to turn the magnet on or off. Plus, to activate this style of magn