5 Benefits of Using Portable Lifting Devices in the Workplace

Ergotronix presents manufacturing companies with safe, efficient alternatives to manual lifting and transporting. Our customizable portable lifting devices reduce the need for employees to bend, strain, and lift heavy loads. Using one or more of our systems can streamline work processes, reduce injury risks, and increase productivity throughout your workplace.

Discover the benefits of using portable lifting devices in the workplace. Learn about new safety features, cost benefits, and opportunities to speed up manufacturing work.

Portable Lifting Devices Improve Safety

Using a lifting device significantly reduces the risks associated with manual handling. Machinery is designed to securely hold and transport loads without the instability and unpredictability of human effort. It doesn’t fumble or accidentally drop equipment, as it will only release the load once the machine’s operator intentionally activates the controls to do so. This mechanized precision ensures that heavy and potentially dangerous loads are moved safely and efficiently, thereby creating a much safer work environment. This not only protects the workforce from injury but also enhances productivity by minimizing the risk of accidents and damage to materials being handled.

By providing lift assistance, manufacturing teams run fewer risks of dropping the equipment. This also reduces instances of equipment damage and the downtime that results when the item in question undergoes repairs.

While damaged or broken equipment is enough of a concern already, equipment that is dropped too close to a manufacturing employee can cause significant injuries and slow down production in order to administer medical assistance.

Increased Efficiency

Portable lifting devices also enable the workplace to operate more smoothly. Using machinery to lift and move equipment or materials creates a streamlined path for objects to follow, and in addition, lifting devices free up human laborers. This means that more people can continue to work instead of lifting and moving heavy items throughout the workspace. A single employee can operate the mechanical lifting device and save time when transitioning pieces from one station to another. 

Compare this against three or four employees taking time to manually lift and transport loads and the efficiency benefits are obvious. It may not seem like three employees lose much work time when lifting and transporting loads, but those minutes add up. Portable lifts eliminate the inefficiencies that slow down your factory through manual lifting.

Portable Lifting Devices Reduce Physical Strain

Limiting the need for manufacturers to manually lift and transport heavy equipment also reduces physical strain. Back pain, neck pain, and shoulder strain aren’t uncommon risks when it comes to operating a manufacturing floor. 

Enabling employees to use machinery for lifting and transporting material reduces the likelihood of strains, chronic pain, or injuries occurring. 

Compact lift transporters like the Ergo Tranz® and telescopic lift systems like the Ergo Force® are designed to protect the health and well-being of manufacturing employees by reducing the heavy lifting they’d otherwise be expected to endure day in and day out. Using these equipment types makes moving equipment painless. Simple controls move a load from one spot to another with zero risk to the people working on the floor.

The Ergo Tranz Compact Lift Transporter

The Ergo Tranz is designed to significantly reduce instances requiring employees to engage in physically demanding tasks such as carrying or manipulating heavy items. This innovative tool aims to improve workplace safety and efficiency by minimizing the risk of injury associated with these strenuous activities.

Ergo Tranz Features

• Lift and transports workload up to 650 lbs
• Compact, light-weight hand truck
• Heavy-duty battery power for lift and other desired electric work manipulation movements
• Eliminates body strain of manual work effort
• Adaptable to a variety of standard and custom end-effectors
• Built-in safety features
• Optional rotary ground system
• Turn table allows for ease of fixturing

Greater Mobility with Portable Lifting Devices

Cranes or other typical lifting devices are designed to hoist, lower, and transport heavy pieces of machinery, equipment, or other materials around a given workstation. These installations are large, space-consuming, and costly with limited flexibility. Instead, using a portable lifting device enables a more fluid, less costly, and totally flexible mobility alternative

Massive Time & Cost Savings

Providing manufacturers with portable lifting equipment can speed up work processes by reducing the time employees would otherwise spend slowly moving pieces of heavy equipment from one location to another. What would ordinarily take a full minute to do before now only takes a few seconds when using a suited lifting device.

In addition, lifting devices reduce the risk of equipment or materials being damaged by dropping, bumping, or pressing against delicate surfaces. A lifting device carries every item as it’s designed to and runs practically no risk of dropping the material it moves. 

If you’d like to learn more about the benefits of having portable lifting devices on your manufacturing floor, contact Ergotronix today to book a demonstration. We’ll go over each product we carry and discuss how you can implement new equipment into your work processes.