Vertical Lift Machines

Vertical Lift Machines Let’s lift your company to new heights! We offer automated vertical warehouse solutions and are Vertical automated storage is the storage of the future.

Like in all aspect of life today automation can be found everywhere including in warehouse storage. The two major benefits of vertical automated storage are space saving and efficiency improvements due to the goods to man concept, over the traditional, man to goods retrieval of stock. Both of which are major considerations for Australian companies as they try to reduce costs and remain competitive

. VLM Pty Ltd is just under a year old but its history goes back 5 years. 5 years ago I helped secure the Australasian (Australia and New Zealand) agency for Modula Italy, a division of System Logistics with 35 branches around the world. A year ago Modula Italy moved the agency agreement to VLM Pty Ltd of which I own 100%. To date we have 100 VLM’s installed across Australia at well-known branded companies.

01/09/2026

🛤️ Most plants solve a long line with an overhead crane, then build the waiting into the schedule.

There is another answer. This is an overhead trolley mounted manipulator running on a motorised runway. The arm travels the length of the line overhead, so one machine serves every station instead of every station needing its own.

Here it is on armoured doors at a European door manufacturer. Flat, dense panels, gripped by jaws, inclined and rotated in mid air, then placed square by one operator with one hand.

An industrial manipulator carries the full weight of the load while the operator positions it, which is what turns a two person wrestle into a single controlled movement. Put that on a runway and the reach problem goes with it.

Where does your line lose the most time waiting for a lift?

25/08/2026

🎨 The simplest unit we install is a hook on a balanced arm. It still counts as an engineering control.

Not every handling problem needs gripper tooling and a custom cycle. Some floors just need paint pails moved off pallets, all day, without a person carrying each one.

This Dalmec Posivel at an Italian paint plant is that answer. A hook picks up the pail, the arm balances it so it floats between pallet and line, and the operator steers instead of carries. Rated to 28 kg, and the whole unit sits on a baseplate a pallet truck can pick up, so it moves to wherever the work is.

Zero gravity handling is not reserved for the 200 kg lifts. The small, constant ones earn it just as fast.

If a lift stayed manual because it seemed too small to fix, watch this one. Link in first comment.

📊 Nobody writes up the drum that nearly went over.The grip that slipped on a wet chime. The drum steadied against a thig...
20/08/2026

📊 Nobody writes up the drum that nearly went over.

The grip that slipped on a wet chime. The drum steadied against a thigh halfway through a tip. The second person who jumped in because the angle looked wrong. On a chemical floor these happen every week, and almost none of them make it into a report.

They are not luck. They are leading indicators: the same force, posture and fatigue that produce an injury, showing up a moment before it happens.

Count them for one month on one task and you will know where your next claim is coming from. Then engineer that lift out. A lift assist device such as a pneumatic industrial manipulator takes the full weight of the drum, so a tired grip can no longer drop it.

Which task on your floor collects the near-misses?

18/08/2026

🪣 Small drums are a volume problem, not a weight problem.

No single pail is a hard lift. A full shift of them is. Repetition wears out wrists, shoulders and backs long before any one drum is heavy enough to blame.

This Dalmec PEC unit at a coatings plant in China answers with multiplication. The tooling grips four small drums at once by their top lids: suction cups hold, the pneumatic arm carries, and an ejector releases each drum cleanly at the drop. Four drums moved for every movement the operator makes, with the arm taking the whole load, rated to 160 kg.

That is what a pneumatic manipulator changes on high-volume lines: not just how heavy each lift is, but how many lifts there are.

If your floor moves product by the pail, this one is worth sixty seconds. Link in first comment.

⚙️ "We've done something about that lift" can mean very different things.A laminated procedure is an admin control. A ba...
13/08/2026

⚙️ "We've done something about that lift" can mean very different things.

A laminated procedure is an admin control. A back belt is PPE. Both sit at the bottom of the hierarchy of control, and both leave the lift exactly where it was.

The hierarchy is blunt: eliminate, substitute, engineer, then admin, then PPE. On chemical and drum-handling floors, most manual handling fixes never climb above the bottom two.

This week's carousel: five signs your control is not really controlling the hazard. A pneumatic manipulator floats the load so the operator guides it instead of carrying it. That is engineering the risk out, not managing it on paper.

Five signs in the slides. Which one is on your floor?

11/08/2026

🎯 No jaws, no clamps, no cradle. This tooling lifts a drum with one suction cup on the lid.

Sounds like a party trick. It solves a specific problem: drums packed edge to edge leave nothing to grip from the side, and levering one out by hand is where backs and fingers get hurt.

The B14 tooling on this Dalmec PEC unit at a Spanish plant grips flat on the top lid, so it can take a drum straight out of the middle of a tight pallet. Vacuum holds the load, the pneumatic arm carries the weight, and controlled lowering places each drum exactly where it needs to go, one after another, all shift.

A lift assist device does not need to look dramatic. It needs the right grip for the load.

Worth a look if your drums arrive palletised. Link in first comment.

🛢️ On a chemical plant floor the hazard is rarely one thing.It is force: a 205-litre drum that weighs over 200 kilograms...
06/08/2026

🛢️ On a chemical plant floor the hazard is rarely one thing.

It is force: a 205-litre drum that weighs over 200 kilograms full and still has to move.
It is posture: the lean and twist of walking a drum on its rim.
It is repetition: the same lift and tip, shift after shift.
And it is duration: the fourth hour, when grip and concentration fade together.

Any one of those is manageable. A hazardous manual task is what you get when they stack.

An industrial manipulator is an engineering control that takes the force and the posture out of the lift: the load floats on the arm and the operator only guides it.

Worth walking your floor and finding the one task where all four stack up.

04/08/2026

⚖️ This week's lift: a drum that loses weight the whole pour, on an arm that never moves.

Emptying a drum is a moving target. The load starts at over 200 kg and falls with every second of the pour. Most lifting gear is set for one weight; when the weight keeps changing, the operator fights the creep.

Watch what this Dalmec PES unit at a UK composites plant does instead. The gripper clamps the drum and rotates it through the pour while the pneumatic balancing compensates automatically, so the drum holds exactly the height and position the operator set, full or empty. No creep, no drift, no muscling a changing load.

That is self-balancing: a pneumatic industrial manipulator keeps the load weightless to the operator at every point in the cycle.

See how this applies to your drum handling. Link in first comment.

28/07/2026

🔧 A leaf spring is the backbone of a truck or trailer suspension. It is also long, heavy and awkward, and it has to be tilted and lined up precisely to fit.

Do that by hand, all shift, and it is exactly the kind of lift that ends backs.

At SOGEFI Suspensions, that job is now controlled, not carried. A Dalmec manipulator with a magnetic gripper takes the full weight of the spring. The operator tilts and rotates it into position with one hand and places it clean. No wrestling a heavy spring into line. No dropped steel.

Heavy-duty suspension is heavy-duty handling. This is how you take the strain out of it.

A fitting way to close the month: the parts that keep commercial vehicles on the road.

📋 When a WorkSafe inspector walks a vehicle line, they are not looking for a hoist on the wall. They are looking at the ...
23/07/2026

📋 When a WorkSafe inspector walks a vehicle line, they are not looking for a hoist on the wall. They are looking at the hazardous manual tasks and what you have actually done about them.

Under the Hazardous Manual Tasks Code, the expectation is the hierarchy of control. That means engineering the risk out where you reasonably can, not just writing a safe-work procedure and handing out a back belt.

A repeated heavy lift with a documented injury history, still done by hand, with admin controls only, is exactly what an inspector stops at. "We told them to lift properly" is not a control. Designing the lift out is.

A manipulator is an engineering control: it sits at the right end of the hierarchy.

Worth knowing which of your tasks would not survive that walk.

Full read in the first comment.

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