MiniTec offers flexible solutions for workplace organization during and after the Corona pandemic based on its modular and workplace system.

Conveying, assembly and automation require sophisticated and at the same time clever solutions in times of corona restrictions. Work areas and workplaces must be reorganized to implement hygiene measures and ensure the protection of employees. The top priority here is: keep your distance! Not so easy in thoroughly organized and packed production and administration areas. Flexible solutions as well as know-how in different disciplines are necessary here. MiniTec impressively demonstrates how this can be achieved in practice with a whole portfolio of solutions based on its modular system.

The ergonomic design of workstations and their sensible integration into a material flow and assembly workflow have been a core competence of MiniTec for many years. The necessary components for this are contained in the extensive modular system of the German manufacturer. Workstations as well as complete material flow and assembly solutions have been created on this basis in numerous companies worldwide.

In times of the Corona pandemic, companies are now faced with the challenge of protecting their employees and enabling them to work efficiently under new conditions. Intelligent solutions are needed here, because the requirements are many-sided and also change as the pandemic measures progress. The main criteria are efficient hygiene protection and the implementation of distance rules. MiniTec offers a variety of proven solutions from its modular system for this purpose, which can be implemented and installed at very short notice. If requirements change, all constructions can be easily converted or dismantled thanks to a sophisticated connection technology. All parts and components can be reused. This not only means maximum flexibility for planners and plant builders, but also investment security for MiniTec customers. Such solutions are also desirable from an environmental point of view.

Workstations with system

The workplace design specialists at MiniTec have been developing workplace systems according to the latest ergonomic findings for many years - now also with regard to the requirements during and after the Corona pandemic. Customers benefit from the profound experience of MiniTec engineers as well as numerous applications of the workplace system in all industrial sectors. The comprehensive program includes all components and equipment that enable economical and ergonomic work. All components as well as entire assembly workstations can also be equipped with castors so that they are mobile. Working areas can thus be adapted within a very short time. MiniTec offers a free webinar on the subject of ergonomic workplace design, information on which is available at www.minitec.de/webinar/ergonomische-arbeitsplaetze.

The workplace system has now been expanded to include effective hygiene protection. The individually configurable protective walls can be integrated at workstations, acting as safe protection against droplet transmission while allowing work to be carried out in a reduced space. Flexibility here, too: Rollable hygiene protection walls protect wherever it is necessary for a temporary period.

Convey to any place

If production and work areas are reorganized, then the material flow must also be adapted. This is because workpieces have to be brought to the right place and in the right position at the right time so that they can be processed, assembled or fitted. This also includes the interlinking of processing machines, workstations, handling equipment. All constructions can be changed within a very short time thanks to a patented connector and thus adapt to the changed work organization. Entire production areas can thus be reorganized - depending on the requirements of the Corona pandemic.

Plan and design

With the specially developed MiniTec design software iCAD Assembler, MiniTec provides its customers with a convenient and at the same time free tool. It can be used to plan and modify new designs in the shortest possible time. An electronic catalog contains all components of the profile system so that add-ons or further constructions can be realized in the same system. The software automatically generates a parts list and - if required - an assembly plan. A standard CAD system is not required, but interfaces for 2D and 3D data to all common CAD systems are integrated for trouble-free transfer.