Autoquip is proud of its history providing specialized material handling equipment for the Aerospace industry. Autoquip has designed custom solutions for transferring material, positioning people, and raising and lowering wings, fuselages, and engines of winged craft, helicopters, and satellites. Whether on the tarmac, in the hanger, at the assembly line, or around the loading dock, Autoquip has the technical expertise, design experience, and manufacturing capability to help you develop an effective, reliable, and safe custom equipment solution that will meet the rigorous safety and design specifications that are unique to the Aerospace industry.
Typical lifting and handling solutions that Autoquip has designed and manufactured for the Aerospace Industry include:
Jet engine test cell lifts –High travel scissors lift and heavy duty ram lift configurations raise large wheeled carts carrying jet engines to the fixtures near the top of the test cell.
High travel work platform lifts – Fixed and portable scissors lifts, with and without adjustable shuttle decks, provide assembly personnel variable vertical and lateral access to all surfaces of a wing and its tool during assembly and inspection.
Fuselage positioning lifts – Multiple portable hydraulic scissors lifts working in tandem to provide variable working heights of the entire jet fuselage.
Satellite storage and launching lift – Portable, adjustable scissors tables move and position satellites between storage and launch facilities.
Lightweight personnel work platforms – Lightweight fixed and portable scissors lifts reduce overall weight for ease of manual positioning by personnel. This reduction in weight is also critical on the cantilevered work platforms used to access fuselage sections during assembly.
Jet engine assembly lifts – Stacked scissors lifts or single ram platform lifts are used to ergonomically position a jet engine standing on end by lowering it into a recessed pit while workers stand on and work from the adjacent, fixed floor level.
High travel material lifts – Vertical reciprocating conveyor and high travel scissors lift designs safely transfer carts with component parts from one landing to another for assembly, storage, and inventory.
Air cargo container lifts – High-capacity scissor lifts with heavy duty conveyors are used at the dock to transfer air cargo containers from dock-to-truck or truck-to-dock.
Wing mating lifts and tooling – special high-capacity scissors tables are mounted to air bearing transport bases, including adjustable flow “creep speed” power units, to lift and mate an entire wing to the fuselage, then transport the entire assembly down the production line.