Bar Order Filling Stations

Picking, strapping and accumulating bundles of bar orders can represent most of the manual handling required in a Metal Service Center. This normally requires lifting, bending or twisting during manual handling and walking over orders piled on the floor with crane pendant in hand. These bad practices are ergonomically incorrect and lead to compensation claims and MSD (musculoskeletal disorders).

Bar Packaging Station (click for larger view)

Bar Order Filling Stations by Metal Center Systems are designed to perform with your existing order requirements. Metal Center Systems offer many different configurations of Bar Order Filling Stations each with their own specialized application. They include but are not limited to Bar Packaging Station, Over/Under Stations, Direct Pick Stations or Pan Pick Stations.

Bar Packaging Stations allow for ergonomic packaging of bar products where average order size is relatively slow and individual items are considered to be light enough to be flipped.

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Over/Under Stations are designed for high volume production where individual items and full pans are brought up to the station. Item selection is mostly done by the station operator either through use of stripper arms or assisted with overhead standalone crane if items are too large and heavy.

Over Under Bar Order Filling Station (click for larger view)	Stripper arms move product upward from pan for order picking (click for larger view)	Panned product being gathered for order (click for larger view)	Order being shaped in bundling straps for strapping (click for larger view)

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Direct Pick Bar Order Filling Station (click for larger view)

Direct Pick Stations accept products that are direct picked from the racks by one or two sideloaders or items that are pan flipped or crane lifted out of the pan to be delivered to the station. Orders are then placed directly onto receiving chains which convey to the order filling operator. Manual handling is eliminated and banding is done at the right height with overhead supported tools.

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Pan Pick stations are variants of Direct Pick where lifting is achieved through the use of hydraulic stripper plates by the sideloader operator at the station.

Loose or panned products are brought up to the station for order selection (click for larger view)	Products are bundle shaped and weighed before strapping (click for larger view)

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Processing rates vary from up to 100 lines per shift for Bar Packaging Stations to 240 lines per shift with fully automated systems.

Metal Center Systems has the industry experience and practical application knowledge to develop a Bar Station that suits your specific requirements.