Rationalization with handling technology

What do we understand by handling technology? This term describes a technical area that deals with the manipulation of objects.

Handling technology has many facets; simple magazines, complicated robots, workpiece carriers, vibrators, rotary bunkers, feeders, grippers, ... and is, above all, a connecting link between different workstations. Handling itself should run as automatically as possible, although this is often only possible in mass production and with materials suitable for handling.

This book deals with the automatic handling of workpieces. The handling of workpieces is an area that is associated with workpiece flow; workers are still required to perform strenuous, barely creative and sometimes even dangerous work in many parts of industry.