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 Interroll Flex Flow®, the flow rack featuring dynamic storage technology, guarantees optimized space utilization, faster access to stored goods and materials, as well as ergonomically improved storage and picking processes. Specially designed for Kanban systems and production stations at assembly lines, Interroll Flex Flow is capable of storing over 50 individual product items - offering maximum availability in a dynamic setting.
Advantages
- Storage Systems Midwest stocks Flex Flow® components and provides design/build services for your applications
- Equipment is ready to use upon delivery
- Tailor-made systems
- Outstanding versatility
- Industry-specific accessories
- Flexible adaptation to your logistics
- Only three key components
- Tubes
- Connectors
- Roller tracks
Flex Flow Benefits, Examples & Technical Features: 
LEAN Manufacturing & Continuous Improvement
Flex Flow® enables the LEAN philosophy to be readily implemented. Our customers choose Flex Flow for its flexibility, its ease of use and reusability. They count on Flex Flow to help them optimize their work environment and improve their company's performance. Often, a Flex Flow structure can be implemented the same day the request has been made by the operator. If changes are required, the Flex Flow system provides the flexibility for adjustments or reconfiguration.
Flex Flow® Benefits
- Efficiency & Adaptability:
- Standardized components ensure full reusability of individual parts.
- Unparalleled Flexibility:
- Interroll Flex Flow racking systems offer perfect solutions - every time. In fact, just about any rack concept imaginable can be put into practice in the form of a tailor-made system, even when the complexity of operations calls for rapidly changing functionality.
- Efficiency:
- Well-conceived selection of standard components - individual parts can be freely combined without the need for complicated and time-consuming catalogue orders.
- Quick Installation:
- The average assembly time for a Flex Flow system is just one hour.
- Simple Assembly:
- The ingeniously simple and intuitive design of all components makes this system easy to install and adapt - saving time and money.
- Elegance & Cleanliness:
- Interroll Flex Flow components impress with premium-quality design, while a high-end dirt-repelling coating protects the parts for long-term use.
Examples
 Flow Racks
With the Flex Flow® system, you can either modify or completely disassemble your flow racks and build new, efficient structures. Your solutions can be designed to fit in and around production equipment - optimizing the space available for material flow.
- Available in either mobile or stationary configurations
- You decide the length, width, height, capacity and number of levels
- Choose from a number of options to meet a variety of application needs:
- Empty container return
- Secondary presentation angle
- Lane dividers
 Kitting Carts
The ability to design the perfect cart for your operation is only an idea away. Because with Flex Flow®, there are numerous sizes, colors, fittings and components to choose from.
- Mobility supported by a complete selection of casters
- Hitches for towing
- Popular cart applications:
- Kitting carts
- Tool carts
- Sweep and shine carts
- Synchronized dollies and more
 Motorbike Assembly
Order and clarity are absolutely essential when it comes to handling minute assembly parts. They have to be easily identifiable and accessible at all times. Interroll Flex Flow® delivers total transparency. Not only does it ensure unrestricted and immediate supply, it also takes up very little space and can be easily adapted to meet the full range of production requirements.
Also applicable for:
- Logistic trains
- Supermarket areas
- Picking add-on for workstation
 Dashboard Assembly
With the help of Interroll Flex Flow®, any conceivable racking system can be put in place in no time at all. In fact, a rough sketch is all it takes. The advantages of Flex Flow's unequalled versatility become particularly apparent when it comes to meeting highly specialized requirements, such as the production of cockpit components. The cantilevers are adapted to the dimensions of the individual instrument panel, thus facilitating picking, transport or interim storage with pinpoint accuracy.
- Accurate retrieval
- Secure depositing and transportation
- Convenient, ergonomic movement of components
- Suitable for large, bulky components
 Door Assembly
Picking racks deployed in the automotive assembly lines have to meet particularly exacting standards. The Flex Flow® system developed by Interroll is up to this challenge in every possible way. Whether the parts to be picked are large or bulky, this state-of-the-art solution can be tailored to any requirement. Such qualities are essential not only to ergonomic handling but also to overall system versatility, particularly when having to deal with a diverse range of component shapes and sizes.
- Rapid adaptation to parts of various dimensions
- Ergonomic handling
- Superb mobility
- Maximum product protection
- Perfect for light-weight yet large components
 Picking Module
As a highly adaptable and mobile system, Interroll Flex Flow® is the perfect solution when it comes to supplying components or modules required on vehicle assembly lines. In this case, all small parts required during engine assembly are made available in FIFO picking racks located directly next to the assembly line. Operators thus have immediate access to a wide range of components without having to leave their assembly stations.
- Clearly Structured
- Parts easily identifiable and accessible
- Large volume, small footprint
- Perfect for small assembly parts
- Pin-point positioning, in close proximity to assembly line
Technical Features
 Flex Flow® Tube
With a wall thickness of 2mm, Flex Flow structural tubes are tailored to the requirements of heavy-load applications. What's more, both the internal and the external surfaces of these premium-quality components have been specially treated to prevent corrosion. For ESD applications we recommend the use of a specially designed black tube, which ensures mechanical and electrostatic protection of all your components.
 Flex Flow® Connectors
Interroll offers an extensive range of connectors, allowing fast and efficient assembly of any kind of module. Connectors are painted black as standard or white zinc-plated for ESD applications, thus guaranteeing high corrosion resistance and superior strength. Hooks at the extremity of the connector provide a secure lock for maximum system rigidity. On the inside of the connectors, specially designed lip structures ensure optimum grip.
- Treated black steel
- Extremely robust design
- Reusable components
 Floway® Track
Floway Track from Interroll is designed to handle anything from feather-to heavyweight applications, conveying items reliably and quietly from the input end to various order-picking stations - year in, year out, maintenance free. This combination of features is truly unique. The staggered arrangement of the components increases the load capacity of our roller tracks even further. Our state-of-the-art track is the only one of its kind worldwide that has been designed to ensure that the rollers cannot dislodge - even under heavy loads.
 Floway Track rollers will not dislodge under heavy loads- High-capacity rollers made of high-density polyethylene
- Elector-zinc-plated profile that will not distort
- Bearing rotates on steel stub axle
- Operation temperature: -35°C to +40°
- Max. load per bearing- static: 26.5 lbs dynamic: 17.5 lbs
 Roller Flow
Designed to complement Interroll's pioneering solutions for tote and carton handling, Roller Flow is the perfect choice for loads in the low to medium weight category. Equipped with a continuous row of aluminum rollers in sturdy side profiles, the Roller Flow modules are available in lengths of 3' to 12'. The aluminum rollers are supplied in lengths of 5in, 8in, 11in, or 14in; they are designed to handle totes and containers with an overhang of up to 50%. Fitted with a high-performance axle, each aluminum roller has a load-bearing capacity of up to 22lbs. The roller spacing can be freely configured to match the dimensions of the individual storage containers. Roller Flow modules are highly versatile. They can be supplied in 3 different roller pitches and 4 different roller widths.
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