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Gallery Spotlight: Hydraulic Lift Tables

October 29, 2008

Being able to raise work to the right height improves its quality, because it eases manual labor. It gets things done faster, because you can perfect your work flow between stations by (for example) adjusting your station’s height to be the same as that of an adjoining station. These are just two of the reasons you’d buy a hydraulic lift table. Let’s take a look at some of the ergonomic industrial furniture that RDM Industrial Products provides.

This is an animated .gif of one of our hand-cranked hydraulic tables. Note the wheels on this model. They allow you to easily switch from a stable to a mobile configuration.

This animation shows a table with an electric motor. This provides power to heavy duty models, where a hand crank just won’t provide the lift. This only makes sense, because our toughest models can support up to 20,000 pounds.

This is our stainless steel model. It’s often used as lab furniture because the design ensures easy sterilization.

Remember to contact us about industrial furniture so we may better understand and meet your needs.

RDM Industrial Products Background

September 19, 2008

Established in 1977, RDM has been in the California Bay Area for over 30 years. We’re right in the heart of the Silicon Valley. We’ll provide your company with the quality products and services you demand on schedule without taking short cuts on quality.

We produce workbenches, lab tables, technician workstations, lift tables, laminar flow stations with HEPA filtration, We also manufacture commercial cabinets (European-style with slab type doors), service counters, reception counters, conference tables, counter tops, display and store fixtures, and laboratory cabinets and tops. Our product lines are constantly expanding, and that’s before you count the great deal of custom work we do. For over 30 years, RDM has concentrated on making the furnishing fit the space – not the other way around.

As a distributor, we offer many of the peripheral products that compliment our manufactured products, such as laboratory and cleanroom seating, storage cabinets, file cabinets, wire shelving, carts, ESD static control products, and many ergonomic solutions such as foot rests, keyboard holders, flat screen monitor stands, CRT monitor stands.

If you are local to the Bay Area, come and visit our showroom, located near the Heart of Silicon Valley at 1652 Watson Court in Milpitas, California, where you can view our many styles of lab tables, workstations, workbenches and their accessories. Here you can see our specialty table models in action, like our ergonomic lift table which is equipped with an electronically-operated hydraulic lift system (Model A-107P, Lift Table), or our double sided workstation (Model T-101P), ball-transfer tables, heavy duty tables, LAN workstations, laminar flow stations, and much more.

Gallery Spotlight: Reception Counters

September 19, 2008

RDM has a huge selection of industrial furniture, lift tables and lab furniture – so much that it almost distracts from the fact that we build plenty of front office furniture too. This week we’ll look at our reception counters.

This is a particularly photogenic model with a black marble finish.

This counter represents a blending of appearance and practical considerations. The counter is actually being used for coffee service and was built to fit that duty as well as blend in with the rest of the area.

What We Do

August 21, 2008

RDM Industrial Products specializes in meeting the needs of clients who want a mix of sophistication and traditional durability. For instance, RDM customizes its adjustable table designs to satisfy their clients’ unique size and load requirements. Their lift table selection also demonstrates these values in action by offering numerous options to modify the basic design. These include clean room standard surfaces and motor-assisted lifting.

RDM’s been in the business for 30 years. Located in the competitive San Francisco Bay Area, RDM builds staple furnishings for local high-tech firms, such as the lab tables these clients need to assemble precision products. Packaging tables also display RDM’s ability to manufacture more specialized furniture solutions.

From flow tables capable of eliminating particulate contamination to tough commissary kiosks, the company’s commitment to custom solutions is reflected in the way it can cater to each industry without sacrificing quality. Obviously, cafeteria checkouts and microprocessor manufacturing have vastly different needs, but the company manages to cater to both by adhering to high manufacturing standards. This applies to general industrial workbenches as much as unique lab equipment. That’s why RDM has lasted for three decades in one of the most challenging local economies in the world, and why they’re the first choice for so many companies.

Buy Industrial Furniture for Your Needs

August 15, 2008

Buying heavy duty furniture requires more than a trip down to the office supplies store. If you’re equipping a factory floor, a clean room, a large foyer or a cafeteria, your furnishings need to stand up to repeated stress – and if the area’s in public view, need to look good, too.

For over 30 years, RDM Industrial Products has been the manufacturer of choice for industrial furniture. Located in the high-tech Bay Area of California, the company supplies staple furnishings for the players in this competitive environment, such as the laboratory tables they need to assemble precision products. Labs order these fully welded tables to custom specifications, ensuring the sturdiness and ergonomic qualities they need for research and manufacturing.

RDM specializes in meeting the needs of clients who need a mix of sophistication and traditional durability. RDM’s lift table selection represents these values at work. The least powerful of these hydraulic-assisted, adjustable height tables can lift 1000 pounds to the exact height specified. Options include motor-assisted lifting and cleanroom standard stainless steel. As a manufacturer, RDM can even build an adjustable table to satisfy a client’s unique size and load requirements.

Packaging tables are an example of RDM’s ability to manufacture more specialized industrial and lab solutions. The company’s expertise runs the gamut from commissary kiosks to flow tables capable of eliminating nearby particulate contamination. RDM’s commitment to custom solutions is proven by the way it caters to specialized industries.

Obviously, clean room microchip manufacturing and cafeteria checkout counters have vastly different needs, but the company manages to cater to both by adhering to an overall emphasis on high quality manufacturing. RDM’s core manufacturing ethic applies to general industrial workbenches and their most specialized lab equipment alike, making them an excellent source for all of your workplace furniture needs.

Gallery Spotlight: Industrial Workbenches and Workstations

July 24, 2008

At RDM, we strive to live up to our motto of QUALITY – SERVICE – TIMING. We attempt to treat our clients to the highest level of quality and service that is so difficult to find these days.

One thing we’re proud of at RDM is the ability of our craftspeople to turn out functional, strong products. Their talent is almost a problem, because they can manufacture so many specialized industrial workbenches, lab tables and other workstations that we’re never sure what merits the spotlight. It’s all quality work. The great thing about this blog is that we can shift focus from month to month, so to take advantage of that we’re inaugurating our Gallery Spotlight feature.

First up: industrial workbenches. They’re probably our most diverse product offering, made even more so by the fact that as the manufacturer, we can produce customized versions of virtually every standard model we offer. Here are a few of the attractive, reliable workbench models we offer:

Model Style LM-110P – Large Shelf Workstations

This tough, multifunctional model features twin adjustable shelves. Clients often use them to hold or mount large monitors. The base shelving provides room for a CPU or AV equipment, while casters ensure easy mobility from place to place. The picture shows it in basic black, but we offer a wide variety of color finishes.

Model Style T-101P – Double Sided Workstations

This space efficient model provides everything you need to run several computers from the corner of a warehouse or an office where space is at a premium. Each side of the station includes an upper shelf and a light boom. Heavy duty support arms keep the work area stable enough to handle heavy packages.

Model Style A-109P – Flat Top Tables

This particular unit is a customized version of one of our core models. This tough station comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors. We picked this image because its small size and bright green color really make it stand out. It’s kind of cute, by industrial furniture standards, but the important thing is that it does the job!

See something you can use? See something you can almost use, as long as we make some custom adjustments? Contact us to see what RDM can do for you.

RDM Industrial Workbenches: 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Settle for Anything Else!

July 17, 2008

A garage-style workbench is fine for somebody who wants to fix a bike or saw through a few planks at home, but once you go into business you’ve got to step up from hobby equipment. If you think your business is small enough to get away with off the shelf consumer benches, think again; they are not designed to withstand regular use.

Our industrial workbenches are designed around durable, time-tested, reliable frames because they need to support extended use and exceptional stresses, compared to a hobby workbench. We also offer custom features. Here are four reasons why you should consider using RDM industrial workbenches for even the modest industrial work.

Durability: An industrial workbench needs to be tough – period. Even if a consumer model workbench can stand up to a given task every once and a while (like when you tinker in your garage on Sundays) that doesn’t mean it can stand up to the performance required to perform 8 to 24 hours a day, 5 to 7 days a weak. Many of the added features that are offered on our competitor’s typical workbenches may represent weak points in their designs. Their durability is compromised by adding lower-grade enhancements. (With RDM workbenches, you can add adjustability as an option; however, they’re a little more expensive since they are made of sturdier stuff.) Our competitor’s workbenches will eventually give out under repeated use and stress. In even a small scale manufacturing environment that represents a ticking time bomb. Do you want a bench leg to fail when you’re working with acid? Fragile electronics? Glass? Safety demands durability.

Ergonomic Features: An industrial workplace lives or dies on a consistent workflow. Every station needs to support the quick, efficient execution of a task. This isn’t the place to be switching out tables or chairs every five minutes. If your current furniture setup requires this, then your productivity is suffering. Our industrial workbench selection includes designs that are suited to serve many tasks. Correct ergonomics should be available for every task, and they can be found throughout our industrial workbench selection. RDM workbench adjustable properties do not compromise function or clash with other features. Our hydraulic lift tables are an example of how we incorporate flexibility into your workbench processes.

Heavy Support Options: As a rule, you should always overestimate the potential weight and stress your workbench needs to support. Purchase accordingly. Industrial workplaces are dynamic; therefore, heavy objects shouldn’t be thought of as static weight. What if your product or equipment slips on the work surface? What is something falls against the side of your loaded workbench? Most of our competitor’s weight capacities do not match up to their listed specifications? Be aware of similar workbench designs that claim to support loads greater than our units. These claims do not take live loads into consideration. Nothing beats our fully welded frame designs. Our fully-welded workbench frames are the most durable solution on the market, above all of our competitor’s bolt-together, knock-down frames. While we do have light duty workbenches that ably support smaller shop tasks, our standard models can take on extremely heavy live loads without compromising integrity. We also offer workbench designs for large size projects as well as large size loads up to 20,000 lbs.

Workspace Clutter: This issue is so basic that many people don’t even think of it, but failing to consider how to keep a workbench space clear is a major cause of lost productivity. A cluttered white collar desk is the sign of a creative mind, but a cluttered workbench is a hint that somebody’s eventually going to have an industrial accident. Our industrial workbenches have plenty of options to help avoid this, from table models with elevated shelving to articulated platforms that suspend monitors, documents and other peripheral elements away from the main workspace.

Keep these four tips in mind when it’s time to procure workbenches for your business. Avoid the temptation of lesser grade consumer models, because replacing them and dealing with lost productivity will claw back any savings you may initially experience. Once you know what you want, take a look at the industrial-grade workbenches we have to offer. We’re ready for your order and look forward to hearing from you.