Usually, the customer must provide the actual working conditions and requirements of the attachment to the forklift factory or its sales agent or the attachment company. Based on these important information, the forklift factory or its sales agent or the attachment company can carry out the selection of attachments.
The following are the factors to consider when choosing an attribute:
1) What kind of goods the customer carries out: such as paper rolls, soft bags, barrels, home appliances, tubes, pallets and other items.
2) Cargo weight: (including pallet) kg, length (along driving direction) mm, width/diameter mm, height mm.
3) Outer surface/contact surface (outer packaging).
4) Mode of transportation: a. Pallet transportation: the size of the pallet of goods in mm, the height of the pallet jack in mm b. Non-pallet transportation: the distance between the piles of goods in mm, the number of pieces of goods
5) Specific handling information / actual environment:
How will the customer handle these loads: Pushing / Gripping / Rotating (horizontal to the direction of travel) / Rolling (horizontal to the direction of travel) / Sideways movement / Rolling (along the direction of travel) / Loading on the rear of the car / On the side of the car goods.
6) Current customer status information: How have customers solved the handling problem so far? How do they want to improve? What do they envision?
7) What are the limitations in practical application: height, length, width, weight, others.
8) Application fields of attachments: smelters, construction sites, warehouses, special occasions, etc.
9) Environmental factors: explosive areas, dust, high temperature, low temperature, acidity, sugar, salt, food, nutrition, beverages, etc.
10) About the forklift: forklift model, mast type, type of attachment selected, action function, determine the number of additional oil circuits of the forklift according to the type and function of the attachment:
a. For a set of attachments with action functions, the forklift needs to provide a single additional oil circuit (such as the left and right lateral movement of the side shifter);
b. For attachments with two sets of action functions, the forklift needs to provide double additional oil circuits (such as the opening/clamping/rotation of the paper roll clamp);
c. For attachments with three sets of action functions, the forklift needs to provide double additional oil circuits and install a solenoid valve device (such as the rotary side
Opening/clamping, side shifting, rotation of shifting bale clamps).
11) Does the existing forklift still need to purchase a new one? (Whether there is a problem of forklift modification, such as: adding additional oil circuits, etc.)
12) Installation cost of attachments (labor cost, time-consuming hydraulic system modification (if necessary), cost of corresponding optional parts, etc.)
