BI Brooks is primarily a “systems house” where we design, engineer, fabricate, and install turnkey material handling systems. These systems use overhead power and free conveyors, powered monorail systems which utilize I-beam or enclosed track conveyor, or surface conveyor systems, using powered roller and power belt conveyors, with the ability of accumulating, diverting and sorting of products. We have designed systems for existing plants where there are numerous obstructions to avoid and production processes that need to continue to run, along with systems for a new facility or an expansion of a current plant. We work hand in hand with the customer to determine the expansion size required or new building requirements, by providing layouts of the proposed system, possible loading of building steel, etc. But the must frequent system we install is in an existing plant where production needs to continue to run while a system is being installed or the installation is taking place during shutdown time or over a long weekend. This type of installation is the most critical and difficult, but we work closely with our customers and use experienced and quality craftsmen to make sure the projects get completed on time and without disrupting the manufacturing process.

Overhead Conveyor/Powered Monorail System

This is a system we designed and engineered for a painting operation. The overhead conveyor is a 3” I-beam chain and trolley conveyor which carries the product to the dip tanks and then through a cure oven. We provided a turnkey system including the dip tanks, oven, electrical controls, and installation. The unique thing about this project was the dip tanks. The customer has three different colors that they paint their product and wanted a way to quickly and easily change colors, so we designed a system using three different tanks and mounted them onto bridge crane end trucks. We then installed rails on the floor and the tanks can be moved back and forth via the motorized end trucks, which are pendent controlled and use limit switches to position in the correct location.

Surface Conveyor System

This is a system we designed for a picking operation in a warehouse. Once the orders were filled the boxes were placed on our conveyor and transported to the shipping dock, where they were palletized and shipped to customers.

Pallet Handling Conveyor System

This system was designed with an existing automatic palletizer and would convey the formed pallet loads to an automatic stretch wrapper then to the warehouse for storage or shipping. There were two lines and two automatic wrappers which were then integrated together. We provided a turnkey system, including materials, electrical controls, field wiring, air piping, and installation.

Power and Free Conveyor System

This system was for another painting operation and we utilized a power and free conveyor because of the flexibility of this type of conveyor. By using the power and free conveyor, we were able to side pack the oven and reduce the size plus it saves on energy. The ability to stop carriers for loading and unloading, and switch the track to go different directions makes the power and free conveyor a very flexible and appealing option.

Rack Storage System

This is a rack storage system we designed for a 250,000 square foot warehouse facility. We designed the system to maximize storage space and make the picking and drop off of product as efficient as possible.