(10002) Lift table technology are key enabling technologies that offer significant opportunities for technological breakthroughs and productivity improvements. Scissor lifts tables exist to extend human capabilities and improve human productivity. In a manufacturing setting, lift table technology is used to bring materials to a worksite and position them where humans can use the materials in a manufacturing process.
Scissor lift tables are powered via hydraulic, pneumatic or electromechanical means. Hydraulic lifts are the most popular. These lift tables are, however, the least clean of the three due to their use of hydraulic fluid that may weep. Pneumatic lift tables rely on compressed air to expand and contract cylinders or bags. These lift tables are the cleanest of the three and are ideal in dust 
free clean room applications. However, compressed air cost is becoming more and more expensive.
Another downside to utilizing either hydraulic or pneumatic is less lift precision. Electromechanical lift tables move loads with a belt drive system or screw linear actuator ball and screw which lifts and lowers the table. These lift tables provide great precision and are a “Clean and Green” method of lifting.
Trends in lift tables technology and positioning technology are toward higher precision and safety for the electromechanical lift tables and cost reduction by design changes for the hydraulic and pneumatic powered scissor lift tables. In addition, speed (while maintaining accuracy) for all three.
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