Nissan Manufacturing UK (NMUK) has invested in a bespoke drive system from Mastermover for moving press dies from production to maintenance bays. Rob Rolfe, die-maintenance team leader at NMUK, said: 'Mastermover's solution entailed integrating a Mastertug MT-20 drive unit onto the outside of our three existing press die trucks.'An operator drives the trucks via a wired pendant control. 'If there is a fault on the drive system, we can easily and quickly detach the drive from the truck by simply removing a single pin. He added: 'We then replace the drive with one of the other two, less critical Mastertug drive units.
The Mastertug can pull, push and steer wheeled loads from 50kg up to 25,000kg. It is designed to get all the traction it needs by using a coupling system to transfer load weight to the drive wheel. For NMUK, Mastermover removed the tiller arm from the MT20 and devised a coupling system between the MT20 and the die truck.
