Automotive manufacturing is an extremely competitive industry, one that is constantly looking to increase productivity and gain greater efficiency while maintaining high standards for quality and safety.
Manufacturers of marine and leisure vehicles have relied on Caster Concepts for help in improving safety, increasing productivity, and solving unique challenges that arise during the production process. This includes protecting boat molds and decks from cracking, providing ergonomic solutions to make moving and maneuvering heavy loads easier, and minimizing fiberglass buildup and other factors that decrease caster life.
In the tire manufacturing industry, as many as two hundred raw materials go into making a tire. These materials are transported to prep zones, storage areas, and the tire building machines themselves. This task involves using several material handling carts that deal with heavy loads and any number of scrap debris on the floor.
Caster Concepts has worked with many tire manufacturing plants to help them solve issues related to higher load capacities, overexertion, floor debris, and high-temperature environments. A great example is our 77 Series Dual Roll Ball Bearing with Twergo Wheels, which helped one company reduce push force in half. The in-house manufacturing of our poly tread formulations also helped to minimize wheel debris pickup, reducing rollability issues and providing longer life to caster wheels.
The type of equipment required to build and maintain the heavy equipment of today needs to be as rugged and reliable as the cranes, tractors, bulldozers, and other heavy equipment themselves. Everything is bigger in the world of heavy equipment manufacturing, and that means substantial weight capacities that need to be moved safely, yet efficiently.
Workflow optimization is a greater challenge when parts weigh hundreds, even thousands of pounds. Carts and carriers are taxed with supporting massive loads, creating challenges and safety concerns. To help keep this industry moving, Caster Concepts designs casters and wheels specifically for these types of applications.
Caster Concepts can help you determine the best ergonomic caster and caster wheel for your application. With proper ergonomic casters, you can realize a better ROI through fewer injury claims and less downtime by reducing the initial, continuous, and turning push/pull force of your material handling carts.
Caster Concepts offers a complete line of ground industry casters that are up to par for the grueling demands of outdoor applications, including a complete line of aluminum casters that are lightweight and corrosion-resistant, yet durable.
Our ability to protect precious cargo with dependable and durable casters is something we have helped customers successfully accomplish for years. From aviation to the military, Caster Concepts provides industry-leading motion solutions from the ground up.
Optimizing your material handling effectiveness is a balance of lowering push/pull forces and caster noise, while extending wheel life and load capacity. Choosing the optimal design starts by answering these 10 most-asked questions.
I am attempting to connect my RS2 to Emlid Caster. I have verified all information is correct, I have a connection showing with the rover connections but the mount point is still showing offline and I am not receiving corrections.
We need to trouble shoot the RTK base setup.
How does your base RS2/M2 receiver sending corrections connect to the Caster?
I think you have to navigate to the base output page first.
Also base settings and make sure you have the corrections you want selected.
I have the RS2 tethered tp my phone as well as my laptop. Base settings have both correction input and base output set as NTRIP and I am showing online in both the mount point and the rovers thankfully.
Now my need I guess is to connect my P4 RTK to the RS2 base but with both base input and output connecting to Caster, how would I enable a connection to the P4 RTK? would I simply input the rover details into the remote under the custom network RTK section? I have tried that and am seeing now 2 rovers connected on the Caster Side of things
Why is your base receiving corrections? Are you trying to sync to another base?
The 8390km baseline is telling me you probably connected to something randomly selected, or missed a - sign on the base tab.
This is what the corrections page should look like, unless you are optionally syncing to another base during initial setup using average fix. Once you locked the coordinates into manual, then its turned off again.
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With my base correction output and input set to NTRIP I was able to gain a fixed correction and run a 30 min solution. The P4RTK was connected and maintaining an RTK signal but I am in very close proximity to an airport here in Toronto so I did not take off.
With those settings I did have a 2 rover connections online and a mount point online as well which now that you mention it, there would have been no need to set the base as a rover I am assuming? So really what I should be seeing under the caster account is a mount point online, and 1 rover being connected being the P4RTK unless I have my RS2 rover also hooked up.
there would have been no need to set the base as a rover I am assuming? So really what I should be seeing under the caster account is a mount point online, and 1 rover being connected being the P4RTK unless I have my RS2 rover also hooked up.
So breaking it down, I will set up the base (RS2-1) without correction input for 30 min fix solution if possible. Input the rover credentials in the P4RTK Custom RTK network settings, which if done correctly should show the same base information under the custom network as on the base (RS2-1) Reachview section of the base settings and fly the mission.
So breaking it down, I will set up the base (RS2-1) without correction input for 30 min float solution if possible. Input the rover credentials in the P4RTK Custom RTK network settings, which if done correctly should show the same base information under the custom network as on the Emlid caster website under rover and fly the mission.
But if you do not need to be synced to a local reference frame or datum, just average float the base for 5min. In RTK all measurements are always right relative to each other. It takes a bunch of extra steps to get them lined up with a map.
Maybe you mean 30 min average single? For the solution to be float the user must connect to some ntrip source and then if the conditions are not good the solution will be float.
Anyway I think the OP succeeded with P4RTK. He just have to clear up the terminology and the proper workflow in order to have absolute accuracy. BTW the P4RTK rocks!
Trying to get it all figured out lol. Operator turned grademan turned sewer water foreman turned drone op business owner haha. 15 years in the industry and never in my life would I have thought I would start my own business doing drone work for a living.
I am unable to connect to the caster as well
Just this morning we tried via 3g which was sending data out via checking that it had internet. We also changed the base to hotspot and still no luck. When we put the base and rover close to each other via lora we had fix. I just updated from firmware 26 this morning. Spent a half day trouble shooting and still no solution.
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Casters have great importance in automotive manufacturing. The proper casters and wheels in your application can mean the difference between uptime and downtime, employee productivity and employee injury, or even maintenance prevention vs. costly maintenance.
Direction Lock
Cart features two pedal activated swivel lock casters located at diagonal corners. Direction lock is integrated into the saddle of the caster. This improvement allows for upgrades or caster replacement to take place in the field. Caster is bolt mounted.
Casters are used in numerous applications, including shopping carts, office chairs, toy wagons, hospital beds, and material handling equipment. High capacity, heavy duty casters are used in many industrial applications, such as platform trucks, carts, assemblies, and tow lines in plants.
A basic, rigid caster consists of a wheel mounted to a stationary fork. The orientation of the fork, which is fixed relative to the vehicle, is determined when the caster is mounted to the vehicle.[1] An example of this is the wheels found at the rear of a shopping cart in North America. Rigid casters tend to restrict vehicle motion so that the vehicle travels along a straight line.
Like the simpler rigid caster, a swivel caster incorporates a wheel mounted to a fork, but an additional swivel joint above the fork allows the fork to freely rotate about 360, thus enabling the wheel to roll in any direction. This makes it possible to easily move the vehicle in any direction without changing its orientation. Swivel casters are sometimes attached to handles so that an operator can manually set their orientation. The improved swivel caster was invented in 1920 by Seibert Chesnutt, US Patent 1341630, which was easily manufactured by stamping, and incorporated ball bearings for longer life. Basic swivel casters were in evidence in Charles Darwin's famous "office chair" as early as the 1840s.
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