Simplicity is King when It Comes to Safety:

– The Simpler the Tools, the Smaller the Margin for Error

To enhance user safety, we strive to keep our tools as simple as possible while still ensuring they are fully capable of performing the tasks required for optimal load handling.

There is a simple rule that guides our design process: the more complex the tool, the greater the likelihood of errors. Therefore, the fewer ways a user can manipulate a given load, the higher the safety of the operation.

When designing our manipulators, we carefully assess all potential safety issues related to the different ways the manipulator needs to move. The movement options of the manipulators are referred to as degrees of freedom, of which there can be a maximum of 6. However, having six degrees of freedom is very rare.

When considering safety in terms of degrees of freedom, non-manipulators are the safest option, as they do not manipulate the load at all. However, the lifter itself still introduces one degree of freedom – lifting the tool up and down.

Our lifters, when combined with either electrical or manual manipulators, will typically offer 2-4 degrees of freedom: vertical movement (up and down), rotation, swinging, and/or tipping.