Students: Yoeri van Polanen, Sem de Blaeij, Boaz van der Vijver en Arik de Graaf (2025)
De Vreede Techniek announces automated assembly of Danish trolleys to reduce labor cost
To reduce laborious tasks and ensure employees can do more valuable work, De Vreede is developing a robot that will build danish trolleys.
Waddinxveen, Zuid-holland–31/01/2025 – The automated assembler will replace the manual labor required to assemble danish trolleys. Employees can do less laborious tasks and more valuable work to improve the workflow in the workspace.
Most companies in the horticultural industry use loads of danish trolleys, these trolleys need to be assembled and disassembled. Assembly takes quite some time and since they need a lot of trolleys, some companies have multiple workers assembling all day. This is inefficient, and a solution is required.
The automated assembler will solve these problems. To start, insert a stack of trolley-bases, a trolley filled with shelves and multiple poles. The assembler will take one base, insert four poles and will fill the trolley with shelves according to the heights the operator specified.
The trolley will be removed after completion and a new base will automatically be taken from the stack, continuing with the next trolley.
If you’d like to deploy the assembler yourself, you’ll have to make sure there’s enough space, set up the required safety precautions and instruct employees on how to use the assembler. The layout of your working area can easily be customized by one of our employees to fit all your workflow needs.
To learn more, go to De Vreede Techniek