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December 2011

                                                       RAVAS MForks nominated for FLTA Awards

 

The British Fork Lift Truck Association have nominated RAVAS MForks for the Awards for Excellence 2012, category Safety. The FLTA is internationally recognised as a leading independent authority on fork lift trucks. It exists to maintain and raise standards in the materials handling industry.
Every year the FLTA nominates the most innovative, ground-breaking products and ideas of importance for the materials handling industry.

Cast your vote for MForks

For anyone who is interested: voting is possible till 18th January by this voting-card. You can find RAVAS on the voting-card in the category ‘Safety’. The FLTA ‘Pick of the Year’ is a trusted guide to the best new products and innovations in four categories. The Awards night will be held on 18th February 2012. For further information: FLTA.
In 2010 RAVAS won the British FLTA-Innovation Award for iForks, a completely wireless fork scale for forklifts.

Lifting loads safely

MForks is the first load moment monitoring system integrated into the forks of counterbalanced trucks and reach trucks. MForks measures both the weight of the load and the position of its load centre.
MForks is designed to signal overloading of counterbalanced trucks and reach trucks, in order to prevent trucks from tipping over and forks from breaking. Every forklift truck has a load diagram which shows the maximum lifting capacity in relation to the position of the load centre. In practice it’s left to the forklift driver to interpret the load diagram and to decide whether a load can be lifted safely. Until today no tool existed that indicates the actual load moment on the forks. MForks changes this: from now on every lift truck driver can have a clear indication of whether a load is being lifted safely.

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About RAVAS
RAVAS develops, produces and distributes mobile scales on hand pallet trucks, warehouse trucks and forklift trucks. These mobile weighing systems contribute to higher efficiency and lower costs in internal logistics. For more information please visit our website at: usa.ravas.com

RAVAS USA LLC
975 Deerfield Parkway
Buffalo Grove, Illinois
60089
Tel: 224-676-2238
Fax: 224-676-2136
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RAVAS MForks win MM-Logistik award at CeMAT 2011

 At  the 2011 CeMat show in Hannover (Germany), RAVAS received the MM-Logistik award  for its latest development: MForks. According to the expert jury, MForks  is the most innovative product in the forklift safety category. MForks  is the first load moment monitoring system integrated into the forks of  counterbalanced trucks and reach trucks. MForks measures both the weight  of the load and the position of its load centre. A patent is pending.

Lifting loads safely
MForks is designed to signal overloading of counterbalanced trucks and  reach trucks, in order to prevent trucks from tipping over and forks  from breaking. Every forklift truck has a load diagram which shows the  maximum lifting capacity in relation to the position of the load centre.  In practice it’s left to the forklift driver to interpret the load  diagram and to decide whether a load can be lifted safely. Until today  no tool existed that indicates the actual load moment on the forks.  MForks changes this: from now on every lift truck driver can have a  clear indication of whether a load is being lifted safely.  

How does MForks work?
Before use, MForks are calibrated on the lift truck, according to the  load diagram. The system then continuously monitors the moment forces  from the load: both the weight of the load and the position of its load  centre are taken into account. The result is transmitted to an indicator  in the truck cabin via Bluetooth connection. The indicator calculates  whether the load, in its current position on the forks, may be lifted  safely. In its display, the indicator shows which percentage of the  maximum lifting capacity, at the current load centre, is being used. If  the load moment exceeds the 100% limit, a warning buzzer sounds. The  driver can then offload the forks and pick up the load in a different  way, or leave it for a truck with a higher lifting capacity. This way,  the driver can always accurately judge whether the situation is safe.  
MForks  is a radically innovative product that increases user safety on  counterbalanced trucks and reach trucks. In the near future RAVAS will  offer MForks in combination with a lifting height sensor or data logging  equipment. RAVAS has applied for a patent on MForks. More information  on MForks will follow soon.

In 2010 iForks, another RAVAS product, was awarded the Innovation Prize of the British Forklift Truck Association.

About RAVAS
RAVAS manufactures and distributes weighing systems integrated in hand  pallet trucks, warehouse trucks and forklift trucks. These mobile  weighing systems enable companies to make their internal logistics  cheaper and more efficient, to raise the quality of their products and  services and thus increase client satisfaction. A mobile scale allows  the user to move loads and weigh them at the same time. This saves  manpower and reduces cost. More advantages of mobile weighing:  simplifying production and warehouse processes, generating management  information and monitoring the quality of products and services.

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While searching for a company who could help us develop our next-generation mobile weighing systems, RAVAS found Lantronix. For more information please read this case study and see what Lantronix writes about RAVAS.

may 2009

RAVAS Receives NTEP-Certification for iForks

BUFFALO GROVE, Illinois, (May 2009) - RAVAS (USA) is pleased to announce receipt of the NTEP Certificate of Conformance 07-036A1 for our iForks 5.0. Not only does this mean that the completely wireless iForks 5.0 is Legal for Trade and may be used for invoicing by weight, it also confirms that RAVAS scale forks guarantee accurate weighing on forklift trucks over prolonged periods of time.

The iForks are the newest RAVAS weighing system, which will take weighing on forklift trucks a huge step forward. The iForks are completely wireless, with all electronics and power components integrated into the forks. This results in a highly accurate, extremely compact weighing device that can be installed on any counterbalanced truck, reach truck or narrow aisle truck in a matter of minutes. To see how RAVAS’ iForks 5.0 can save your operation time space and money please visit our web site usa.ravas.com or call RAVAS USA at (224)676-2238.

NTEP (National Type Evaluation Program) is an evaluation program administered by the National Conference on weights and measures where weighing and measuring devices are tested (evaluated) for accuracy, repeatability, performance, operating characteristics, features and options ensuring compliance with the standards set forth by NIST handbook 44.

ABOUT RAVAS

RAVAS develops, produces and distributes mobile weighing equipment for forklifts, motorized pallet trucks and stackers, order picking trucks and hand pallet trucks. These mobile scales allow the user to weigh during transport. This raises efficiency and realizes immediate cost savings. For more information: www.usa.ravas.com

Contact:

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January 2009

RAVAS introduces iForks, the new generation scale forks for forklift trucks

RAVAS, The Mobile Scale Company, introduces iForks, the first completely wireless scale forks for forklift trucks, reach trucks and narrow aisle trucks. Since all components are fully integrated in the forks, the iForks have no external cabling whatsoever and the weighing system can be installed onto any forklift truck in a matter of minutes: plug & weigh! From that moment on, every load lifted by the truck is instantly and accurately weighed.

Each scale fork communicates the weight lifted with the weight indicator in the cabin via Bluetooth. The weighing system is powered by robust, exchangeable battery modules. All Electronics and power components are exclusively developed by RAVAS for the iForks concept. Which is why they are not only resistant to rough use, but also extremely compact, keeping the fork dimensions (wxh = 5.2x2.1 inch) very close to those of standard lift truck forks and making sure that the user does not loose  any handling performance.

The iForks weight indicator in the cabin shows the weight of the load on the forks and offers a complete range of weighing functions: gross/net weighing, total weight per shipment, code entry, date/time registration, and piece counting. The indicator can provide weight data transfer to a printer, a data terminal, or directly to a WMS or ERP system, via RS232, Bluetooth or WiFi. The display is equipped with backlight, making it perfectly readable even in the darkest corners of a warehouse or production environment. iForks offers Digital Calibration Technology: via the keys of the indicator the scale can be digitally adjusted, quickly and accurately. Which makes for a very maintenance friendly weighing system and low cost of ownership.

The user can supervise the power management of the iForks himself. The weighing system has an  auto-shut-off function which automatically switches off the electronics after a prolonged period of non-use. Via a power management menu on the indicator the user can adjust the auto-shut-off time according to the use and application of the truck.


RAVAS develops, produces and distributes mobile weighing systems for forklift trucks, warehouse  trucks and hand pallet trucks. Mobile weighing systems improve the efficiency of a company’s internal logistics and realize immediate cost savings. Want to know more? Go to www.ravas.usa.com or contact:

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