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Etude de cas : Train logistique pour un approvisionnement optimal

Etude de cas : Train logistique pour un approvisionnement optimal

ManuLine, une entreprise française spécialisée dans la conception, la fabrication et la commercialisation de solutions intralogistiques, se distingue notamment par ses trains logistiques. Ses modèles sont développés pour s’intégrer harmonieusement dans des environnements de production flexibles et modulaires, en accord avec les principes du LEAN Manufacturing. Ils permettent un transport rapide et efficace des matières …

Station de vidange à vanne diaphragme dans l’agroalimentaire

Station de vidange à vanne diaphragme dans l’agroalimentaire

ManuLine est spécialisée dans l’optimisation de la manutention du vrac. Depuis 20 ans, nous développons des solutions personnalisables pour manutentionner, vidanger, remplir, stocker et filtrer les conteneurs souples, plus communément appelés sacs Big Bag. La clé de notre succès ? Nous mettons un point d’honneur à trouver LA solution sur mesure qui répondra à VOTRE besoin spécifique. …

L’importance de l’ergonomie industrielle au poste de travail

L’importance de l’ergonomie industrielle au poste de travail

L’importance de l’ergonomie industrielle au poste de travail L’ergonomie est une technologie, dont l’objet est l’aménagement des systèmes homme-machine ou, plus largement, des conditions de travail, en fonction de critères, dont les plus importants regardent le bien-être au travail (confort, satisfaction, santé, sécurité, etc.). » — Jacques LEPLAT, l’un des pères fondateurs de l’ergonomie de langue …

How do you optimise Big Bag emptying?

How do you optimise Big Bag emptying?

Big Bags, also known as FIBCs (flexible intermediate bulk containers), are commonly used to store and transport bulk materials such as grain, minerals and chemicals. Yet unloading these bags is a complex and time-consuming task without proper equipment. This is where Big Bag emptying stations come in. But what is an emptying station? What are …

Emptying station for plastic injection industry

Emptying station for plastic injection industry

ManuLine is a company located in Alsace with 20 years’ experience as a specialist in bulk handling optimisation solutions. We provide custom-built solutions for Big Bag handling, emptying, filling and storage. For a client in the plastic injection industry, our team recently developed a custom-built station with hopper and sleeve for emptying plastic granules. In …

Tugger trains from every angle – an expert’s opinion

Tugger trains from every angle – an expert’s opinion

Tugger trains offer a novel and efficient approach to supply chain and production management for industry. Inspired by the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS) and Lean Manufacturing, the concept aims to streamline operations by reducing stocks to an absolute minimum while meeting production requirements in a precise and responsive manner. Tugger train implementation …

Design & manufacturing of custom-built ergonomic trolleys

Design & manufacturing of custom-built ergonomic trolleys

A custom-built trolley is a handling cart that is individually designed to adapt to the particular needs of a company or a specific requirement. With 20 years of experience, ManuLine has built up a solid reputation in the design and development of custom-built trolleys. This article provides examples of some of the specific trolleys that …

Case study: custom-built ergonomic trolley

Case study: custom-built ergonomic trolley

ManuLine is a French company specialising in the design, manufacturing and marketing of specific intralogistics solutions, particularly custom-built ergonomic trolleys. These trolleys, also known as a handling carts or bases, are intended to facilitate the transfer of loads from a point A to a point B, thus improving handling efficiency. We recently designed and developed …

Case study: custom-built tugger train for transporting 600 x 400-mm plastic boxes

Case study: custom-built tugger train for transporting 600 x 400-mm plastic boxes

ManuLine is a French company specialising in the design, manufacturing and sale of intralogistics solutions, particularly tugger trains. The products are designed to be used in a flexible and modular production environment, in accordance with the principles of lean manufacturing. Raw materials, semi-finished & finished products and waste are transported quickly and efficiently, while reducing …

Custom-built trolley with telescopic extensions and spreader system

Custom-built trolley with telescopic extensions and spreader system

ManuLine is specialised in the design and development of internal logistics solutions to optimise your processes and line-side supply. Our design office delivers on its full expertise to produce the tugger train, trolley or industrial trailer best tailored to your needs.  Design of a custom-built trolley with telescopic extensions and spreader system The ManuLine team …

Custom-built lean tugger train for transporting bins

Custom-built lean tugger train for transporting bins

ManuLine designs and manufactures custom-built lean tugger trains to optimise processes and line-side supply. Regardless of your constraints, our design office will analyse your specifications to offer you a technical solution that fully matches your requirements. One example is this custom-built lean tugger train (featuring two Plateau Storcis) that our team developed for a world-leading …

Custom-built trolley for cleaning machine nozzles

Custom-built trolley for cleaning machine nozzles

ManuLine is specialised in supplying internal logistics solutions. From manual trolleys to tugger trains and industrial trailers for bulkier parts, our team develops, designs and markets custom-built solutions to optimise your processes and line-side supply. Custom-built trolley design and development Our teams recently designed and developed a workshop trolley for a world-leading supplier of measurement …

Custom-built, ergonomic industrial skip

Custom-built, ergonomic industrial skip

For over 20 years, ManuLine has been supporting its clients in the design, development and manufacturing of custom-built, ergonomic handling equipment. Our teams recently designed and developed custom-built skips for a client who needed to dismantle a large metal construction within a building. Technical features of custom-built skips All of these industrial skips were fully …

Etude de cas : Support sur mesure pour le remplissage de sac Big Bag

Etude de cas : Support sur mesure pour le remplissage de sac Big Bag

ManuLine est spécialisée dans l’optimisation de la manutention du vrac. Nous proposons des solutions standard et sur mesure afin de répondre au mieux au besoin de nos Clients. Nous développons des produits pour stocker, vidanger, remplir, filtrer et transporter vos conteneurs souples (Big Bag). Projet  sur-mesure pour le remplissage de Big Bag L’Equipe ManuLine a …

Etude de cas : Une nouvelle version de petit train logistique

Etude de cas : Une nouvelle version de petit train logistique

Depuis plus de 20 ans ManuLine vous accompagne dans vos projets d’optimisation du process et d’approvisionnement en bord de ligne sur site industriel. Notre Equipe met son savoir faire ainsi que son professionnalisme à votre service, afin de répondre au mieux à votre besoin. Ci-dessous un exemple de petit train logistique adapté par notre bureau …

Maxibag: the flexible storage silo

Maxibag: the flexible storage silo

The ManuLine flexible silo is made from dense fabric to ensure good air flow and dust resistance. It’s the ideal solution for storing granular products such as cattle feed, seeds, etc. Two ManuLine Maxibag users share their experience. Personal account by Patrice Belly, a grain producer in France’s Nord-Médoc region who uses flexible storage silos …

Low industrial trailer with loading ramps

Low industrial trailer with loading ramps

ManuLine specialises in optimising internal logistics flows. Our design office develops custom-built industrial trailers that are tailored to your needs, for transporting heavy and bulky loads. These industrial trailers are frequently used for provisioning between different buildings on the same industrial site. Our team generally offers ergonomic options to improve user comfort while increasing productivity. …

ManuLine tugger trains designed for optimum transportation of your components

ManuLine tugger trains designed for optimum transportation of your components

ManuLine, a company of the Alsace-based Fidève group, is expert in the design and manufacturing of small-scale tugger trains for optimising processes and line-side supply. Our design office will carefully analyse your specifications to offer you the industrial tugger train solution best suited to your needs. We recently provided a world-leading automotive industry supplier with …

Custom-built station for Big Bag filling

Custom-built station for Big Bag filling

ManuLine specialises in bulk handling optimisation solutions. We provide standard and customised solutions to meet our clients’ requirements as best as possible. We develop products to store, empty, fill, filter and transport your flexible containers (Big Bags). A custom-built station for filling your Big Bags Our design office recently developed a custom station to optimise …

Intra-logistics transport: bins take the train…

Intra-logistics transport: bins take the train…

ManuLine is expert in the design and manufacturing of tugger trains to optimise processes and line-side supply. We recently supplied a custom-built tugger train for transporting waste bins to a client who is an international leader in the supply of measurement instrumentation, services and solutions for industrial processes. Our client wishes to optimise the transportation …

Custom-built trolley tugger train

Custom-built trolley tugger train

ManuLine specialises in manufacturing custom-built handling carts. These wheeled containers – used either individually or in a train configuration – optimise the transfer of loads from a point A to point B. Optional extras are generally offered to improve ease of use and user comfort, such as the addition of shelves, a rotating or tilting base, …

Mixed model tugger train

Mixed model tugger train

ManuLine is expert in the design and manufacturing of tugger trains to optimise processes and line-side supply. Regardless of your constraints, our design office will analyse your specifications to offer you a technical solution that matches your requirements. One such example is the tugger train recently shipped to a leading international electronic component supplier that …

Completion of a custom-built emptying station for the automotive industry

Completion of a custom-built emptying station for the automotive industry

ManuLine, a French company that has designed and manufactured bulk handling optimisation solutions for more than 20 years, recently supplied an automotive industry client with a fully custom-built Big Bag emptying station – a solution perfectly tailored to the needs of the client’s production facility.   Vous souhaitez vidanger vos conteneurs souples mais ne savez …

How to choose your Big Bag ?

How to choose your Big Bag ?

Do you need a solution for transporting or storing bulk products – such as gravel, sand, plastic granules or grain –, but don’t know which Big Bag to choose? Don’t stress! We can work with you to define the flexible container best suited to your needs. Big Bags, also known as FIBCs, are flexible polypropylene …

Mobile trestle: when handling pairs with industrial ergonomics

Mobile trestle: when handling pairs with industrial ergonomics

For over 20 years, ManuLine has been supporting its clients in the design, development and manufacturing of custom-built, ergonomic handling equipment. Our team always goes to great lengths to offer you the intra-logistics solution best suited to your project needs. The most recent example is a pair of mobile trestles that facilitates component assembly operations …

How do you choose a Big Bag emptying station?

How do you choose a Big Bag emptying station?

Do you need a solution for emptying your flexible containers but don’t know which one to choose? An emptying station with a hopper and sleeve, check valve, diaphragm valve or seed valve? You can take the headache out of finding the emptying station best suited to your needs by considering a few vital questions ! …

Custom-built emptying station with industrial slide gate valve

Custom-built emptying station with industrial slide gate valve

ManuLine recently supplied a custom-built emptying station. Our customer required a solution for emptying a large particle size product from a Big Bag to a container with a smaller opening diameter. The specific aim of the request was to ensure the safe transfer of volume without any spillage. We provided an emptying station equipped with …

Low profile trolley with loading ramps

Low profile trolley with loading ramps

ManuLine has 20 years’ experience in intralogistics solutions and specialises in designing, developing and marketing custom-built tugger trains. Also known as milk-run or small trains, these single-track train systems optimise the transport of components from the warehouse or storage areas to the workstation. Our teams recently supplied an automotive industry client with a train featuring …

ManuLine’s partial business continuity plan

ManuLine’s partial business continuity plan

ManuLine’s teams are working hard to maintain partial operations and to continue to provide service to you in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Our key concern is to keep operations running as best as we can while ensuring the safety of our teams, various partners and customers.   Our staff are on hand during this …

March 2020 – Let’s meet at the LogiMAT Trade Fair 2020!

March 2020 – Let’s meet at the LogiMAT Trade Fair 2020!

LogiMAT 2020 – 18th International Trade Fair for Intralogistics Solutions and Process Management Once again, ManuLine has the pleasure to announce its participation to the 18th LogiMAT International Trade Fair which takes place from 10 to 12 March in Stuttgart (Germany). Specialized in the development and manufacturing of custom-built handling material, we invite you to …

Comment rendre les règles de distanciation sociale facilement visibles

Comment rendre les règles de distanciation sociale facilement visibles

La distanciation sociale est fondamentale pour contenir la propagation de virus tel que le Covid-19. La société ManuLine vous propose ses solutions de LEAN management visuel afin de ne jamais perdre de vue les règles en vigueur. Que ce soit sous forme de bande, pictogramme ou symbole, ces solutions visuelles sont les outils de signalisation …

Custom-built wheel head trolley (automotive industry)

Custom-built wheel head trolley (automotive industry)

ManuLine, a French company that has designed and manufactured tugger trains to optimise line-side supply for over 20 years, has recently supplied an automotive industry client with a train featuring trolleys equipped with tilting wheel heads. A custom-built solution tailored to the company’s production tool. These completely custom-built trolleys were developed by our design office …

Custom-built emptying station with electric diaphragm valve (agri-food sector)

Custom-built emptying station with electric diaphragm valve (agri-food sector)

ManuLine recently offered one of its customers a custom-built emptying station tailored to the agri-food sector. The customer needed to feed a machine located in a clean room (specific to food safety constraints) avoiding any contamination. The layout of the customer’s production area meant the Big Bag needed to be positioned on the upper floor, …