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Wednesday, 30 November 2011 13:23 |
PRESS RELEASE
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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Tuesday, 24 May 2011 08:34 |
RAVAS MForks win MM-Logistik award at CeMAT 2011
 At the 2011 CeMat show in Hannover, 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.
Here you can download the official MM Logistik CeMAT Daily Messe News article.
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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Wednesday, 23 March 2011 14:47 |
 New generation RAVAS-1 hand pallet truck scale
The RAVAS-1 pallet truck with scales has been updated. Our entry model weighing hand pallet truck is now fitted with a compact, dedicated indicator and consumes less power than its predecessor: it works on two AA batteries, instead of four.
Accurate and easy to use
More importantly, thanks to an integrated g-sensor the RAVAS-1 now has a professional lifting height indication in the display, making the pallet truck scale more accurate and easier to use. Little arrows in the display show whether the load is lifted high enough to weigh: as soon as the proper lifting height is reached, the arrows change into a horizontal line and the weight is no longer blinking but shown stable in the indicator display. This RAVAS pallet truck scale will help your organization to reduce its errors in shipping. |
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IMHX successful show for RAVAS |
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 12:14 |
The International Materials Handling Exhibition –a must-see event for logistics professionals - was a very successful show for RAVAS. We met lots of new contacts as well as seeing many of our current relations from the international Material Handling business.
We would like to thank all our visitors for their interest in our eye catcher: the revolutionary iForks in combination with online-data communication via UniMobile software on a handheld terminal. We gave some prosperous live demonstrations of customer cases. The subject matter of those demonstrations: how to realise considerable cost reductions using iForks and UniMobile software on your forklift trucks for rationalising material flows and for processing the resulting information flows. Read more about data handling.
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PRESS RELEASE: RAVAS ON THE IMHX |
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010 15:08 |
RAVAS data handling software expands possibilities of iForks
FLTA-Innovation award winning iForks exhibited on IMHX 2010
 Earlier this year RAVAS iForks, a completely wireless fork scale for forklifts, won the British FLTA-Innovation Award. 'The Innovation Award is perhaps the most prized of the Pick of the Year. It signifies that the winner has an ability to create something unique, powerful and a little bit special,' says John Chappell, CEO of the FLTA.
Since the FLTA Award, RAVAS has launched data handling software for iForks. At the IMHX 2010 RAVAS will give a live demonstration of the revolutionary iForks in combination with online-data communication via UniMobile software on a handheld terminal. Through a number of customer cases we will show you how considerable cost reductions can be realised using iForks and UniMobile software on your forklift trucks for rationalising material flows and for processing the resulting information flows.
iForks and UniMobile software on the RAVAS stand
RAVAS offers a complete package: iForks in combination with an advanced and universal data capture system, on-line or stand alone. This package allows the capturing of weights and additional data on a PDA that communicates with iForks via Bluetooth, and transfer of this data, on-line or off-line, to a WMS or ERP system. Resulting in cost efficient management of inbound and outbound goods, as well as in-house material flows.
At the IMHX RAVAS will also show hand pallet truck scales, scales integrated in warehouse trucks, and hydraulic scales for forklift trucks. You will find RAVAS at the IMHX in hall 020, stand number B70. The IMHX will be held from 16th till 19th November at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. To register for free admission to IMHX 2010, please click.
For further information please visit our web site: www.ravas.co.uk.
iForks: completely wireless and easy to install on any forklift truck
iForks are 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.
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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 realise immediate cost savings. Want to know more? Go to www.ravas.co.uk or contact:
RAVAS UK
Nicola Whittle
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