SPECIFIC INDUSTRIAL PROCESS EQUIPMENT

The supply chain management of production lines in factories increasingly requires the use of trains of rolling bases and milk run carts.

This equipment is dedicated to the most commonly used packaging in industry and allows the optimisation of just-in-time production lines.

This concept replaces the use of many forklifts in the vicinity of the operators which generate accident risks.

Coutier also designs and manufactures all intra logistics handling equipment specifically developed for the type of parts to be transported and the workstation configuration:

• fixed, tilting or rotating bases on wheels
• kitting carts
• kanban carts
• picking carts
• elevator tables
• pivoters
• tippers
• trailers
• gravity and motorised conveyors…
• dollies and mother-dollies

For comfort at work and in compliance with ergonomic requirements, these carts and rolling bases can be fitted with a motorised wheel to assist movement and run with our indexing station system to guarantee their line side positioning.

Regardless of our customers’ sector of activity, their production lines require the installation of handling resources to transfer components between workstations:

• Lifting equipment: rolling beams, jib cranes, hoists, drop benches, etc.
• Overhead handling equipment: swing trays, conveyors, etc.
• Ground handling equipment: conveyors, robot line frames, roller tables, mobile transfer platforms, risers, tippers, pivoters, line side units, etc.
• Complete integration and fitting out of small production lines: furniture, work floors, handling equipment, etc.

Our products are adapted to the configurations encountered and also take into account the constraints related to the geometry of the equipment to be handled, while respecting the ergonomic requirements of continuous improvement departments.

Coutier is present at car manufacturers in the design and manufacture of specific tools dedicated to holding openings (bonnets, tail gates, doors, fuel hatches, …) in the various positions of the surface treatment process with a specialisation in tools for sliding doors. In addition, we also produce a range of swing trays adapted to the shape of the parts to be transported on conveyors.

Our innovating project management approach for each developed tool or range of tools encompasses the formulation of customer requirements, development, prototyping and pre-production, production and life cycle testing of the vehicle, whilst respecting dimensional accuracy requirements.

Our solutions bring a substantial gain in productivity through the intensive reuse of tools without repeated maintenance and guarantee the precision of the positioning of the openings in relation to the structure of the vehicle, a source of manufacturing and assembly quality…