To cover great working areas stationary handling devices are less suitable. Traversing units for the axes X and Y allow a movement of the workpieces over longer distances. Depending on the specific application rail systems with profiles made of light aluminium or solid steel sheet are used.
A traversing system can make movable almost all handling devices from our product range. The manipulator VECTOR can be moved along a single-axis rail system.
A single-beam crane (axis Y) below a rail track (axis X) is sufficient to move the pneumatic cable balancer VECTOR VS. The vertical lifting system VECTOR linear or the storage unit IHF-Depomat (axis Z) runs on a double-girder crane.
Mainly the rail track is suspended from a steel structure. The construction depends essentially on the structural conditions on site. There is a basic distinction between steel constructions suspended from the hall trusses or mounted on the floor. In rare cases a projecting construction is mounted on hall pillars.