• Gandhi Automations Private Limited

Dock Levellers, Robotically Welded

Gandhi Automations Pvt Ltd, India’s No.1 entrance automations and loading bay equipment company, offers robotically welded Dock Levellers – a perfect balance of power and performance. Electro-hydraulic, mechanical and air-powered dock-leveller is not simply “a bridge for connecting a vehicle”. It facilitates fast, smooth and safe transition by compensating the difference in heights between the loading bay and the vehicle. This contributes to minimizing energy used, savings on heating and chilling costs resulting in maintaining the quality of the transported goods. These dock levellers are designed as per EN 1398 standard for the most demanding loading and unloading operations.  The importance of efficiently loading the goods has always been evident, and it has increased with the years essentially for two reasons: the lesser availability and the higher cost of manpower.   

Consequently, this has caused the necessity of hiring less qualified personnel.  The cost of loading and unloading the goods is a precise and inevitable phase, exactly definable, which allows a scientific approach to problems and therefore, solutions which may be quantified both as investments and as feedbacks. Gandhi Automations offers dock levellers that ensure loading and unloading with the lesser effort. It is possible to load and unload your products in a safe way and in the process obtain a remarkable energetic saving. The loading bay remains with the dock leveller in rest position and the sectional overhead door closed, until the vehicle is positioned. The driver drives back centring to the dock shelter and stops when in contact with the bumpers: at this moment he stops the vehicle.   The sectional overhead door is opened only when the vehicle is in position, braked and with the engine shut off. This eliminates the exit of hot air, the intake of cold air (or the opposite in hot and inside conditioned places) and the intake of exhausting gases in the warehouse.  

The sectional overhead door is then completely opened and the lip of the dock leveller opens and connects to the truck bed. After having completely opened the door and connected the dock leveller, the loading takes place. At the end of the loading the dock leveller is put in rest position and the sectional overhead door is closed, without moving the vehicle. The vehicle then departs at the end of the process.  Radius lip dock-levellers allow the dock to connect with the truck-bed, thus making it possible to drive directly on and off with fork-lift trucks, roll containers etc. Loading and unloading operations become quick, safe and economical. These dock levellers come with the most secure safety devices and accessories.   Telescopic lip dock-levellers are ideal for connecting vehicles unable to drive near to the dock (e.g. sea containers, side loading railway wagons, etc), or where it is imperative to reach a longer total length of the dock-leveller itself. These types can be supplied with a lip extending up to 1 m.