Electric Tugs are battery operated machines used to move heavy loads on wheels to help Transport Your Load on Wheels Efficiently and Ergonomically.
Logistics is about the ability of getting the right goods to the right location at the right time. This movement of goods is largely moved horizontally on carts. In the retail sector this is often done by moving roll containers from the truck to the storage space of a shop. This is largely done manually by people who provide the strength to move these containers themselves. Although this may seem a good solution in the short term, it has long-term consequences for the employee’s body. Physical stress, such as lifting, pushing and pulling, can cause back and shoulder complaints. This can lead to pain and reduced functioning, resulting in less efficient management. The electric tug is designed to increase the well-being of the employee.
We still notice that employees in companies manually move heavy loads. Lifting, carrying and pushing heavy loads can eventually lead to disorders such as back complaints, arm, neck and shoulder complaints. Research has shown that physical heavy workloads lead to 24% to 28% higher absenteeism due to illness. This is not only very annoying for the employee, but also for the employer. As an employer you are responsible for your employees and besides the fact that the employee can no longer be scheduled for his or her work, a higher absenteeism also leads to higher costs for the employer.
It is always a burdensome and ergonomically irresponsible job. The moving of heavy shopping cars, hospital beds, transport carts, industry carts, and roll containers. Tugs, which can take roll containers and other rolling transport carts very easy and without physical taxation from one place to the other.
Why Electric Tugs
I) With tugs avoid the most common manual handling injuries.
ii) They can pull a train of carts and can be operated by just one person.
iii) They are safe alternative to forklifts & take up much less space than a forklift.
iv)It adds value to a companies production process & to its products.
Electric Tugs & Its Applications
a) Retail — To move heavy roll cages from a delivery vehicle’s tail lift to the
b) supermarket’s storeroom or long trains of empty roll cages.
c) Healthcare — to move bariatric beds, waste bins (including multiple bins at once), linen cages and gas bottles.
d) Pharmaceutical — to move chromatography columns within laboratories.
e) Supermarkets and Airports — to move long trains of empty luggage trolleys.
f) Horticulture and Agriculture — to move heavy materials such as top soil or to harvest crops in polytunnels.
g) Construction — to move heavy building materials or to access construction sites
h) where diggers and movers cannot due to size restrictions.
I) Food and beverage — to move industrial mixing bowls full of product.
j) Waste handling — to move containers and waste bins and wheelie bins.
k) Rail — To move loads mounted on rails, such as in railway maintenance depots.
l) Cable and wire reels — To move unwieldy reels in production.
m) Automotive — To move heavy products such as vehicles down a production line.
n) Modular buildings — To move buildings through production and completed buildings into storage.
o) Glass — To move heavy stillages used to hold glass through production.
p) Wind Turbines — Moving turbine blades up to 50 metres in length through production.
q) Brick and ceramic — To move product into and out of a kiln.
r) Boat building — To move luxury yachts on cradles through production.
s) Aerospace — To move wing assemblies, invar tooling, turnover jigs etc.