Dietikon ZH – At the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau, HighStep lifts from HighStep Systems in Dietikon are used to access the high-bay warehouses. They were installed by the intralogistics specialist MIAS.
At the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau, riser lifts of the HighStep Systems AG from Dietikon. The specialist magazine "Technische Logistik" reports on this in a detailed article entitled "Lifts instead of climbing". Climbing vertical ladders on storage and retrieval machines for maintenance or repair work is laborious and carries the risk of accidents, it says.
Specialists from MIAS GmbH in Eching near Munich have therefore installed a "special kind of assistance system". This is the Highstep Lift from HighStep Systems. The elevator transports people and materials weighing up to 150 kilograms over a height of 30 meters quickly and safely to any desired position.
"The physical strain of climbing the ladder was immense at times," says John Schultke from the paint shop series planning department at the Volkswagen plant in Zwickau. "After all, equipment and tools also had to be carried, so the employees were completely exhausted during the conventional 15-minute ascent." With the HighStep Lift, "we have found a solution that redefines the term climbing aid," continues John Schultke. The system meets higher safety standards than is the case with standards for fixed ladders.
HighStep Systems AG was founded in 2007 and is based in Dietikon. It develops and markets innovative climbing protection systems as an alternative to conventional climbing methods such as fixed ladders. The HighStep climbing protection system consists of two components: an aluminum rail as the system carrier and the portable HighStep Lift.
Customers include the Swiss transmission system operator Swissgrid, the European high-voltage grid operator TenneT and the Chinese energy company State Grid Corporation of China. ce/gba