DC Velocity - July 2019

Power Operation, Technology and Safety Gates

Website: www.MezzGate.com E-Mail: Sales@MezzGate.com

174 WESTERN AVENUE ■ TEL (978) 768-3000

ESSEX, MA 01929-1110 ■ FAX (978) 768-1101

Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc.

At Mezzanine Safeti-Gates we’ve been focused on providing high quality fall protection solutions to our customers. We started with the original dual-gate system, the Roly® Safety Gate and never looked back. Over the last 35 years, our proactive safety gates have been installed in thousands of distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

An OPEN and SHUT Case for Plant Mezzanine Safety

All technology used with our safety gates is designed to help our customers speed operations, especially those that incorporate AGVs and lift trucks, without compromising safety. Power can be retrofitted to existing safety gates or planned with new systems, and configured using various methods, from push button stations to remote control operations. Water- and explosion-proof motors are available, and numerous controls, such as flashing lights and caution alarms, can be added.

Power alone is not enough to ensure operational speed and efficiency is at its highest. Technology is needed to allow the safety gates to communicate with other plant equipment and software, and we customize technology integration options to fit each customers’ unique needs.

For example, controls and sensors integrated with power operation on our safety gates send AGVs a signal when the ledge gate is up, telling it to load material to the pallet drop area. After the pallets are loaded, the sensors from the AGV send a signal to the safety gate to use the motor to close the ledge-side gate so employees can work with the material. Radio frequency can also be used in the same way to communicate with lift trucks.

Sensors on safety gates can also be wired into a facility’s software system to integrate with processing computers to track many data points, including how fast each area must be replenished with material or the time it takes to unload each pallet load.

Our safety systems utilize additional safety features like photo eyes, which can detect the presence of a person or object and prevent the gate from opening or closing.

An adjustable clutch that engages if the gate makes contact with another object is another included safety feature.

Our standard safety gate models can be customized not only with technology, but also material, color and width or depth. We offer designs for rack supported structures, pallet flow lanes, applications with chain hoists, production platforms, very tall pallet loads and more. Safety gate models for loading docks and lifts can be customized to automatically open and close.

LET US HELP YOU DETERMINE THE BEST SAFETY GATE SOLUTION equipped with the right technology for your application. We look forward to making your facility safer.

Our OSHA and ANSI compliant safety gate designs provide employees on elevated areas with fall protection. Our safety gates are ideal to secure multi-level pick modules, pallet flow lanes, pallet drop areas, mezzanines, loading docks, lifts — basically any elevated area on which employees work. Our safety gate systems not only provide fall protection, but also keep operations efficient.