Conveyor helps move components

Exmac Automation designed and installed a materials handling system for a new Completely Knocked Down (CKD) facility at the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plant at Halewood, where complete car sets are prepared for shipping around the world.

The contract was in two phases.

First, the 'Take-out' roller bed system transfers painted Freelander 2 bodies onto a roller bed trailer, which tows them to the new CKD Building.

There, the trailer is aligned with a cross transfer shuttle that takes bodies to one of three storage lanes, each able to accommodate four bodies. Phase two saw the installation of a crane and jib arm hoist systems as well as a shuttle and specialised conveyor line for a 'Takeout' system that moves vehicle components and bodies from the existing Freelander production line into the new CKD facility.