Background
Operators at a rail car bearing manufacturer are required to transport 45# bearing cups to and from Gaylord bins. This process was being done manually with up to a thousand units per day and was a source of operator fatigue, injury and overall risk.

The Problem
This process was being done manually with up to a thousand units per day and was a source of operator fatigue, injury and overall risk. Operator morale in this work cell was low.

The Solution
A Gorbel Easy Arm® with a Gorbel's in-line slide handle,integrated with a custom Cynergy magnet tooling design.

We have added some new G-Force® user tips to the Ergonomic Lifting Education section of our website. See Mark Grandusky, our G-Force Product Manager, presenting useful tips on how to program items in the user interface. Items like displaying system information, setting sensitivity of capacity overload limiting, or threshold for capacity overload limiting.

Keep checking back as more videos will be added. https://gorbel.com/education/ergonomic-lifting/g-force-tip-of-the-day

Application Videos on Vimeo. Bookmark these links:

Free Standing Easy Arm: https://vimeo.com/album/3104894
Underhung Easy Arm: https://vimeo.com/album/3104873
G-Force IQ: https://vimeo.com/album/3102872
G-Force Q: https://vimeo.com/album/3102841

The NSC Congress & Expo brings together the world's largest gathering of safety professionals annually. NSC uses the concept of the Journey to Safety Excellence® as a roadmap for organizations to continuously improve their safety practice to ensure no harm.

This year at the show we will highlight our Easy Arm, Work Station Crane, Tether Track Swing Arm, and our Road Ranger Mobile Anchor. Stop by Booth #4856 to see these products up close and to talk to our Gorbel Representatives.

We have recently revamped our solutions center/case studies page. This is the place to go if you are trying to determine what Gorbel product best fits your application,. or you may already have the product in mind but need to see how effective the solution is in your type of industry or application.

Use the keyword search or make selections from Industry, Application, and/or Product. When you have narrowed your search, click on the view button to view the case study background, along with video or images. Then you can download the whole story as pdf document.

https://gorbel.com/solutions-center

Are There Enough Workers to Support U.S. Manufacturing Growth?

By: Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain
June 19, 2017

What if manufacturing came back to the U.S., and there weren't enough people to fill the jobs?

Let's start by exploding a common misconception. American manufacturing is not on the decline. U.S. manufacturing production has grown by 11 percent since the dotcom bust of 2000 and the recessions of 2001 and 2007, according to a new report from the Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) and Conexus Indiana. According to CBER director Michael Hicks, 2015 was a "record" year for manufacturing production in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Data from multiple sources shows an increasingly strong U.S. manufacturing base, agrees Will Eadie, vice president of sales and strategy with WorkJam, maker of a mobile app for boosting employee engagement. “It’s a palpable feeing,” he says.

Without question, manufacturing employment is down. Since the peak level of 1979, the U.S. has lost between three and 7.5 million manufacturing jobs, depending on whose statistics you believe.