December, 2014

Industrial carts are critical to most manufacturing processes. They are like the lifeblood that runs through the veins of the production system. Almost anywhere you look in a plant, there is a cart zooming along, delivering parts or materials to a production area or removing finished goods.

This process is continuous – in some robust operations, carts can be shuttling across three daily shifts. Of course, their presence is generally heard as well as seen – cart movement generally is accompanied by noise that, at peak levels, can eclipse 100 decibels (dB(a)). With so many large machines and heavy equipment in use in a manufacturing plant, one may think the noise created by cart or a rack is no big deal – actually, it is.