Lamerholm Electronics, the shock and environmental monitoring company, has just introduced ShockSwitch ID, a PC-driven unit that can dramatically improve forklift truck operations.

The product can be mounted quickly on almost any forklift and improves operations by:

• Reducing forklift maintenance costs
  
• Improving driving habits
  
• Reducing rack and product damage
  
• Ensuring compliance with international Health & Safety standards
  
• Monitoring ongoing driver training
  
• Creating a safer, more productive work environment

 Key features of the ShockSwitch ID include its ability to record and supply details of 400 events or impacts, restrict access to specified vehicles, halt operations after an impact and schedule an alert for planned maintenance checks.

Ian Robinson, managing director at Lamerholm Electronics, said: “Infrastructure, forklift and product damage is a major problem at industrial facilities. As part of an overall quality/safety programme, the ShockSwitch ID system is a cost-effective way to reduce significantly forklift incidents and accidents, in some cases as much as 90%.  This is often accompanied by a reduction in impact-related repairs of 50% or more. Based on this evidence, we’ve already secured a number of large contracts with companies keen to control these avoidable costs.”

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