Workpiece carrier systems
The workpiece carrier system for small to medium-sized products
With the easylane... workpiece carrier system, we offer you an extremely robust and compact transport system ready for integration into almost any industrial environment.
The extensive range, consisting of modular assemblies, offers you the possibility to realize complex system concepts in the shortest possible time. Despite the standardized modular system, we also stay flexible in planning. easylane... always offers you a perfect solution, even for your special transport task, from the basic frame to the precisely adapted workpiece carrier.
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. 15.000 mm
- Usable width
- max. 265 mm
- Conveying load
- 20 kg p. Workpiece Carrier
- Drive
- Direct drive (single- or double station)
- Speed
- max. 18 m/min.
One Kit
Many possibilities
Like all conveyor systems from Broich Systemtechnik, the easylane... workpiece carrier system is 100% modular.
From individual route planning to electrics and controls, right through to the design of the workpiece carriers, no wishes remain unfulfilled. The extensive range of modular components offers the right solution for every transport task. If our modular system does not provide the right solution, a professional team of engineers is ready to solve your special transport task.
Workpiece carrier
Chassis
Drive station
Double drive station
Stopper
Lift-Indexer
90° Curve
180° Curve
Switch Typ I
Switch Typ II
An extensive selection of track components from the easylane... modular system is also available for digital factory planning via the Visual Components software. Learn more
Chassis & Drive
The Basis
Depending on the transport task, various designs and drive types are available for the easylane... workpiece carrier system.
The basis of the system is the aluminum chassis used together with the extremely robust sliding chain and the matching workpiece carriers. Due to the chassis width of 265 mm, you can easily combine easylane... with existing systems of the same design. With product-specific mounts, the workpiece carriers of the easylane... ensure precise and gentle transport of your products.
Chassis
The 265 mm wide chassis consists of a sturdy anodized aluminum profile. Inside the profile, the sliding chain is guided in a robust steel guide with low wear and low friction. The continuous profile grooves offer you a wide range of attachment options. On both sides, the chassis offers the necessary installation space for stoppers and indexers. In addition to standard supports made of anodized aluminum profiles, we also offer extremely stable variants in steel construction.
Drive station
The form-fit and compact drive offers maximum safety and comfort thanks to its enclosed housing with viewing windows. For low-maintenance operation, this is equipped with an automatic chain tensioner, which ensures uniform chain tension. The installation of an overload clutch is also possible, as is the motor attachment with a clutch bell and claw coupling.
Double drive station
Depending on the load and line length, a double drive station is used. Thus, extremely large production lines can be realized without any problems. In addition to the standard automatic chain tensioner, we also supply, as with the single drive station, various extensions such as overload coupling, motor attachment with a coupling bell and claw coupling.
Product examples
The modular construction kit of the workpiece carrier system easylane... has a wide range of practical components to optimize your production. Whether base frame, chassis and drive stations or stoppers and indexers - the possibilities are almost unlimited. We plan and design easylane... always suitable for the transport task at hand.
Positioning
Stop & Index
Stoppers
For stopping and separating the workpiece carriers, easylane... is equipped with pneumatic, electric or manual stoppers. If required, spring-loaded backstops can fix the workpiece carrier against the conveying direction. For integration into your control system, the stoppers are prepared for interrogation of the stopper position. This can be done either via cylinder switches or proximity switches.
Indexing Station & Lift Indexing Station
If a higher positioning accuracy of the workpiece carrier is required, this is increased to +/-0.15mm with the help of an indexing station. Here, the workpiece carrier is either positioned on the sliding chain or completely lifted out of the conveyor line. The lifting height of the lifting indexing station used is adapted exactly to your requirements.
Direction change
Curves & Switches
Complex routes can only be planned and realized through the use of curves and switches.
Curves
The easylane... curve modules offers a cost-effective and space-saving change of direction without a separate drive. In the curve area, the alignment of the workpiece carriers is not changed and an accumulation functionality is possible without any problems. The modular standard curve angles are 90° and 180°. Required special angles are individually designed and manufactured for your requirements. Due to the continuous profile groove, easylane... also offers versatile mounting options in the area of the curves.
Switch
With a switch, easylane... enables the infeed/outfeed of workpiece carriers in main and secondary lines. In this way, individual and complex line layouts can be realized. The switch can be set pneumatically, electrically or manually, whereby no additional drive is required. As with the curve modules, the standard curve angles of our switches are 90° and 180°.
Radius and angle
Our modular system also offers two different variants for the radius of our curve and switch modules with sizes of 150 mm and 225 mm. This allows us to make optimum use of the available installation space and to respond perfectly to your installation situation.
Workpiece carrier
High End
The direct connection between your product and the easylane... transport system is the workpiece carrier.
The workpiece carrier can be as individual and complex as the conveyor itself. The right workpiece carrier is always developed for each product. This ensures that your products pass through production precisely and safely.
The easylane... workpiece carrier enables precise and gentle transport of your products on the sliding chain. The product-specific holders are mounted on the top plate. This enables reproducible transport of "complicated" products or workpieces as well as exact positioning on robots, inspection stations or similar units. The workpiece carriers have wear-resistant chain supports.
Digital factory planning
Start now with the easylane workpiece carrier system... and Visual Components for your digital factory planning.
Thanks to its modular construction kit, users of the software can use the Visual Components eCatalog to plan their system concepts flexibly and to the full extent with the help of easylane... and simulate transport processes. The selection of different track components with drive stations, curves, switches as well as stoppers, indexing and lifting stations offers endless possibilities for layout design.
For more information visit the Website of Visual Components and find out what possibilities the software might have for your digital factory planning.
