Workpiece Carrier Systems
The flexible workpiece carrier system with maximum accessibility
easyflow... Flex is the flexible workpiece carrier system for safe and gentle product transport.
Thanks to a wide range of standardized components, easyflow... Flex is always adapted to the required transport task and can be integrated into almost any industrial environment.
The workpiece carrier circulation system is low-maintenance, robust and completely modular. easyflow... Flex transports your products with low accumulation pressure on individually adapted transport lines. The system is successfully used in the automotive, electrical and household industries and ensures precise production processes, for example in assembly and test engineering.
Overview
Technical data
The technical data listed are guide values for standard specifications. For special requirements, our engineers will be happy to assist you and find a solution even for your particular transport task.
- Length
- max. 14.000 mm
- Usable width
- max. 700 mm
- Conveying load
- 200 kg (p. Workpiece carrier)
- Drive
- Direct drive, Center drive
- Speed
- max. 20 m/min.
One Kit
Many possibilities
A comprehensive modular system is available for planning and implementing the easyflow... Flex.
In this way, we implement efficient solutions in the shortest possible time to solve your individual transport task. Last but not least, the standardized modules guarantee trouble-free expansion of the easyflow... Flex even after years.
The track modules such as drives, curves, lifters, turning stations and corner converters are just as modular as the numerous add-on parts. In this way, your new easyflow... Flex interlinking system grows with the task at hand.
Direct Drive
Center Drive
Acceleration Unit
Corner Converter
Curve Module
Stopper
Indexing Station
Lift Indexer
Lifter
360° Turning Station
Chassis & Drive
The base
Depending on the transport task, various designs and drive types are available for the easyflow... Flex workpiece carrier system is available in various designs and drive types.
The chassis of the easyflow... Flex workpiece carrier system consists of an aluminum profile frame with low-wear guidance of the accumulation roller chains. The motors of the drive units are mounted laterally or between the accumulation roller chains and are equipped with automatic chain lubrication if required.
Chassis
The chassis and supports of the easyflow... Flex are made of stable, anodized aluminum profiles and offer a wide range of attachment options. The positive-locking and low-wear chain guide offers a double-sided engagement protection on the upper side and is completely closed in the return. The parallel design ensures maximum accessibility to the system and easy positioning of stoppers or indexing stations even after commissioning.
The position and orientation of the supports within the conveyor section can be freely selected and oil pans, cable ducts, electrical or pneumatic components find their place under the conveyor section.
Direct Drive
In the case of the direct drive, a hollow-shaft gear motor, which is plugged onto the belt drive shaft, provides the necessary drive torque. The direct drive impresses with its low overall height and is therefore suitable for use in confined spaces and multi-level conveyor systems.
Center Drive
The center drive has a large chain tensioning range with permanent tension display. The chain tensioning is fully automatic and can also be used with reversible conveyor sections.
Acceleration Unit
The acceleration unit allows a very effective and cost-efficient solution for cycle time reduction or acceleration of the workpiece carrier. The speed of the workpiece carrier is doubled by the rolling removal of the accumulation rollers and does not require an additional drive.
Product examples
The modular construction kit of the easyflow... Flex workpiece carrier system has a wide range of practical components to optimize your production. Whether with lifts over several levels, solutions for offline workstations or complex interlinking - the possibilities are virtually unlimited. We always plan and design easyflow... Flex to suit the transport task in hand.
Positioning
Stop & index
Stoppers
A wide range of different stoppers is available for separating the products. This means that specific and gentle stopping of the workpiece carrier is possible without any problems in all weight and speed ranges. In addition to the usual pneumatic actuation, electric stoppers are also available.
Indexing station & Lift indexing station
By using an indexing station, easyflow... Flex offers you the option of increasing the positional accuracy of the workpiece carrier to +/- 0.1 mm. As an alternative to the simple indexing station, the lifting indexing station offers alignment in all three directions. Lifting the workpiece carrier ensures a steady position and improved accessibility to the workpiece.
Direction Change
Easy and safe
Curves, corner converters, but also turning stations and lifters can be used to change the direction.
Curve Module
The easyflow... Flex curve module offers an inexpensive, maintenance-free and space-saving change of direction without a separate drive. The workpiece carrier alignment is not changed by the curve module and accumulation operation is possible in the curve area without any problems.
Corner Converter
The corner converter allows the crossover as well as the infeed and outfeed of the workpiece carriers. The compact design of the intrinsically safe module is another convincing feature. The hub is either pneumatic or electric motor-driven.
Turning Station
The 360° turning station allows safe, cycle-time-optimized turning of the workpiece carriers in any direction. The rotary movement is performed by an electric motor and is monitored with positional accuracy by means of a rotary encoder.
Lifter
By installing a lifter, easyflow... Flex enables transport at different levels if required. Whether pneumatic or electric motor-driven, the lifter frame can be easily positioned laterally and at the front thanks to its compact design.
Special Solutions
Swing-Gate
In production automation, there are always requirements where the possibilities of standard products reach their limits.
Here, special solutions are used that are specifically tailored to the customer's needs. After a comprehensive analysis of the requirements, we plan and design transport solutions for almost all automation tasks. Thanks to our experienced staff and sophisticated technologies, special systems and system expansions that deviate from our standard can be realized without any problems in most cases.
Swing-Gate
The easyflow... Flex swing gate is always used when the conveyor line has to be crossed by persons or industrial trucks.
Also in case of maintenance work, the service passage ensures short distances without interrupting the production. Opening and closing is done manually and the mechanical locking system prevents the workpiece carriers from falling down accidentally.
Special Solutions
External indexer
Indexing the workpiece carriers from the outside offers comparable features and advantages to those of the stroke indexer.
In addition, if the indexing height is sufficient, the conveyor section is released here for subsequent workpiece carriers. This enables cycle-independent machining on or above the main line and eliminates the need for time-consuming ejection of the workpiece carriers.
Workpiece carrier
High-End
The connection between your product and the easyflow... Flex transport system is the workpiece carrier.
With its product-specific holders, the easyflow... Flex workpiece carrier enables gentle and, above all, reproducible transport of your products. A major strength of the easyflow... Flex is perfect positioning on robots, test stations or similar units. Due to a steel chain support and ball bearing guides, the workpiece carriers are optimally protected against wear.
