Rudolph Associates, LLC

Material Handling Specialists
   
 

500 Main St.
Shelbyville, KY 40065

(502) 633-7543
 

RUDOLPH ASSOCIATES, LLC is a full service material handling firm specializing in providing its customers with material handling solutions that are On Time, Within Budget, and that Meet or Exceed Their Expectations.

We assist our customers in improving their productivity through the use of effective material handling techniques. We do this by offering the following:

Engineered Material Handling Solutions

We have many years experience in the design and implementation of material handling systems for the manufacturing and distribution industries. We offer fully integrated material handling systems, including hardware, controls and software, installation, and training, all designed for you unique application. Successful industry experience is our greatest strength when it comes to engineering and implementing automated systems. Our approach is to work with our customers to design the optimum solution to their productivity issues, and then apply whatever hardware and services are necessary to implement that solution.

Consulting Services

We offer a full range of material handling consulting services, including facilities planning, process evaluation, data collection, budget estimating, systems design, bid specifications, vendor evaluations and recommendations, project scheduling, project management, system training, and performance audits. We can be your in-house engineering department, assisting you in making the right decisions in your purchase of material handling systems and equipment.

 
 

Standard Products

 
For our customers who have performed their own engineering and wish to purchase standard conveyor and storage products, we offer the following from these fine companies:
 
Conveyor  
Automotion, Inc. Premier line of package conveyor and sortation products for the distribution industry
Sterling Conveyor LLC Complete line of package and pallet conveyor
Lewco, Inc. Pallet conveyor line for all industries
Omni Metalcraft Corporation Package and pallet conveyor, special machinery
Rapid Industries, Inc. Complete line of overhead conveyor products
Rolcon Complete line of replacement conveyor rollers
 
Storage Rack  
Interlake Material Handling, Inc. Complete line of storage rack products
Unarco Material Handling, Inc. Complete line of storage rack products
Speedrack Products Group, LTD Complete line of storage rack products
Wireway Husky Corporation Complete line of storage rack products
Bulldog Rack Company Complete line of storage rack products
Steel King Industries, Inc. Complete line of storage rack products
 
Shelving  
Republic Storage Systems Industry leader in industrial shelving, lockers, pallet rack, mezzanine systems
 
Storage Rack Accessories  
Unex Manufacturing, Inc. Carton flow products, including Span-Track
Nashville Wire Products, Inc. Wire decking, wire containers, wire shelving
AWP Industries, Inc. Wire decking, wire collapsible containers
Wireway Husky Corporation Wire decking, woven wire partitions, machine guards
Wirecrafters, LLC Rack protection, safety guardrail, woven wire partitions, machine guards
Metrodeck, Inc. Steel rack decking for heavy loads
Torbeck Industries, Inc. Safety guardrail, rack column protectors, bollards, building column protectors, mezzanine systems
   
Workstation Cranes  
Spanco, Inc. Complete line of workstation bridge cranes, jib cranes, gantry cranes, motorized jib cranes, and articulation jib cranes
   
Hoists  
CM Industrial Products Complete line of manual hoists, electric and pneumatic powered chain hoists, electric wire rope hoists, trolleys, and all accessories
   
Lift Tables, Manipulators  
Air Technical Industries Complete line of lift tables, manipulators, floor cranes, positioners, up-enders
Presto Lifts, Inc. Complete line of hydraulic lift tables, stackers, pallet positioners, pallet trucks
 
Edward R. Rudolph, PE Personal Profile
  Mr. Rudolph, a registered professional engineer, is the principle in Rudolph Associates, a firm specializing in providing a variety of material handling solutions to industry.

Prior to starting Rudolph Associates, he was Manager, Systems Engineering, Interlake Material Handling, in Shepherdsville, KY. Interlake provides conveyor and storage rack systems to order fulfillment operations throughout North America. Mr. Rudolph managed a team of engineers and technicians, and was responsible for systems design, product application, project management, installation, and field services.

Mr. Rudolph has more than thirty-five years experience in the material handling industry. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University, and subsequently began his career at Fairfield Engineering Company, a national supplier of material handling equipment located in Marion, OR He progressed through several engineering positions, including sales and applications engineering, product design engineering, and systems engineering, and was subsequently named Chief Mechanical Engineer.

Following his tenure at Fairfield, he joined Rapistan, Inc. in Grand Rapids, MI as a Project Manager. During this time, he managed the largest conveyor system project ever awarded up to that time, a receiving, storage, and distribution system for a major supplier of greeting cards. He also managed Rapistan's first total turnkey system, which included a large AS/RS system in addition to the conveyor system. These were major multimillion dollar projects requiring the integration of many disciplines of engineering to provide totally automated distribution systems.

Mr. Rudolph also spent fifteen years with IBM/Lexmark International as an internal consultant specializing in material handling systems applications from the user perspective. He was the senior member of an engineering team, which converted the Lexington, KY plant from a typewriter manufacturing facility to a printer manufacturing facility, an effort involving the application of conveyor systems, storage systems, factory automation, and robotics. He acted as a consultant to senior management, specializing in operations management and process improvement, and was subsequently named Plant Manager, Consumer Products Division.
 

WE ARE COMMITTED TO HELPING YOU IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY