Making the Power of Linear Synchronous Motor Technology Work for You

MagneMotion’s QuickStick LSM System offers greater functionality, versatility, and simplicity than conventional conveyor systems. Its benefits are evident in saved time, floor space, and resources, offering a higher level of optimization than today’s standard systems. In short, QuickStick LSM technology increases efficiency while eliminating a level of cost and complexity in the automation process.

Efficient:

• Complete transport and positioning optimization when used as a single platform
  
• Reduced down time due to process/product changeovers
  
• Reduced need for added tooling from third-party systems
  
• Optimized product flow due to individual pallet/vehicle control
  
• Reduced overall production time
  
• Increased manufacturing capacity
  
• Higher throughput
  
• More energy-efficient
  
• Individual pallet control (acceleration, thrust, braking)
  
• Higher acceleration and speeds than belt conveyors
  
• Shorter headways at high speed
  
• Real time payload tracking
  
• Built-in position sensors reduce the need for external sensors and wiring
  
• Lower capital costs by using a single system for transport and positioning
  
• Lower maintenance than conveyors
  
• Faster acceleration/deceleration than conveyors

Versatile:

• Cleanroom compatible – reduced particle generation
  
• Handles small or large loads
  
• Multi- and/or single-product solutions
  
• Small-scale to large-scale facilities
  
• Easily accommodates changes in process and productivity requirements
  
• Readily adapts to changes in product lines or manufacturing objectives
  
• Flexibility through use of curved track sections to navigate fixed/legacy process stations
  
• Untethered pallets travel without limiting travel distance or time
  
• Electro-magnetic switching eliminates mechanical switches at merge and diverge points
  
• Modular, expandable, and re-usable motor configurations
  
• Handles large or small payloads
  
• Less floor space required for pallet queuing

Simple:

• Modular design
  
• Fewer moving parts (no gears, drives, pneumatics – only wheels on vehicle)
  
• Easy to install and expand or subtract
  
• Fully software configurable move profiles
  
• Runs multiple move profiles simultaneously for multi-product transport and positioning
  
• Passive pallet requires no power or communication cables
  
• Simple double-bogie vehicle design navigates curves
  
• Half-meter modules mounted on turntables facilitate high angle turns and switching
  
• No gears to switch to reverse pallet direction
  
• Less wiring

Intelligent:

• Traffic management system prevents collisions and coordinates payload flow
  
• Module-to-module communication reduces programming and automatic system restarts (an unblocked pathway results in process resuming where it left off)
  
• Tracks vehicle IDs and coordinates multi-product assembly and transport
  
• Built-in pallet accumulation reduces development time and programming needs
  
• Built-in pallet bump-avoidance reduces line-coordination development time and programming needs
  
• Saves time and labor in design, build, and installation
  
• RFID-compatible

Robust:

• Handles transport in severe conditions like mining or hazardous environments such as nuclear waste reprocessing
  
• Fewer moving parts for greater reliability, lower maintenance, and downtime
  
• Handles loads up to five tons (at reduced acceleration)
  
• Longer life
  

MagneMotion’s LSM-based material handling solutions are not limited to the list below. Any application where linear movement is required – to and from multiple points, in a straight line, or through multiple curves or planes – can be handled by the QuickStick LSM System.

Cargo and Material Handling

• Airport baggage handling
  
• Airport belt conveyors
  
• Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS)
  
• Automotive body robot shuttle
  
• Baggage handling
  
• Bin shuttle
  
• Bottling systems
  
• Car/truck tire handling and manufacture
  
• Cleanroom assembly and transport
  
• Conveyor sortation systems (airport conveyor belt systems)
  
• Equipment for manufacturing semiconductor(s)
  
• Glovebox and separative enclosure transport
  
• Hazardous material handling
  
• Heavy material handling
  
• Industrial automation
  
• LCD / flat-panel-display transport and processing
  
• Overhead systems
  
• Pallet transport and storage
  
• Plastic storage/fuel tank production
  
• Robot shuttle
  
• Shuttle and transportation systems
  
• Thermo former

Assembly, Factory, or Industrial Automation

• Assembly line systems
  
• Automated dispensing
  
• Automated filling systems, sterile filling systems
  
• Automated storage and retrieval systems
  
• Automobile assembly lines (machines, electric motors, etc.)
  
• Appliance and White Goods Assembly and Transport
  
• Injection molder gate drives
  
• Medical dialysis bags
  
• Modular assembly automation platforms
  
• Packaging and filling platforms
  
• Packaging platforms
  
• Paintball mold processes
  
• Robot shuttles
  
• Seat rail assembly
  
• Seat transfer applications
  
• Truck frame manufacture
  
• Ultrasonic machining services

Assembly and Industrial Automation or Material Handling

• Automotive parts line
  
• Car and truck frame assembly line
  
• Contact manufacture
  
• Feeders and loaders
  
• High-throughput conveyor sortation
  
• Systems for parcel and post transfer
  
• Solar cell, solar panel manufacture and transport.
  
• Manufacturing cleanrooms (assembly and transport)
  
• Medical device manufacture
  
• Medical product manufacturing
  
• Microelectronics manufacture
  
• Pharmaceutical applications (cleanroom transport, filling, and packaging)
  
• Pharmaceutical device manufacture (cleanroom parts assembly and transport)
  
• Plant logistics and warehouse systems
  
• Platform for systems integrators and OEMs
  
• Printed circuit board assembly conveyor
  
• Single-Use Bioprocess Products
  
• Sortation systems
  
• Test and inspection

The QuickStick System serves as a viable solution for applications ranging from the simplest of material handling platforms like conveyor sortation systems to systems like cleanroom assembly line machines and automated storage and retrieval systems. The QuickStick line of products offers significant advantages for process optimization, surpassing the functionality and availability of conventional solutions. From medical product manufacturing and equipment for manufacturing semiconductors to heavy material handling, the QuickStick System’s modular design and load-bearing range create an optimized solution resulting in a finely tuned lean manufacturing transport and positioning platform.