Overhead Handling in Houston, TX — Free Your Floor, Move Product Anywhere
For light to heavy duty loads, overhead conveyor is an economical, efficient solution: easy to install, low maintenance, with quick delivery of stock components that increases bottom-line profitability. Lone Star Automated Systems designs, supplies, and installs monorail and power & free systems across Texas.
The Most Adaptable Conveyor on the Market
Overhead conveyor maximizes available floor space while conforming to structural contours — the track goes where your building lets it, not where a floor conveyor forces it. Once installed, overhead systems are easily modified for additional workstations, relocated equipment, increased building size, or other revisions in conveyor paths.
Its design also allows the use of smaller processing equipment — tanks, freezers, ovens — and makes serving hard-to-reach production equipment practical, because the product travels above everything else on the floor.
Overhead handling complements floor systems: hand product down to belt or live roller conveyor where processes demand it, and up out of the way everywhere else.
Adaptability, Productivity, Product Quality
Maximizes floor space while conforming to structural contours. Easily modified after installation for added workstations, relocated equipment, building expansions, or revised paths — and enables smaller tanks, freezers, and ovens.
Simple, reliable design with fewer moving parts means minimal maintenance and virtually eliminates downtime. Flexible chain pitch offers more product hanging point options — maximizing production while reducing conveyor length and integrated equipment size.
Physical handling is kept to a minimum: product moves anywhere, through processes of all types, that would otherwise require individual handling by personnel at every step.
Six Overhead Configurations We Design & Install
From hand-push enclosed track to heavy-duty power & free, the standard component families below cover light through heavy loads — and every one arrives as quick-delivery stock components.
Monorail Enclosed Track Conveyor
Mechanizes manual applications for hand-push storage and transport — then grows with you: modular standard components can be added or upgraded to a powered system. The enclosed track suits material handling, finishing, and storage-and-retrieval duty.
Inverted Monorail Conveyor
Flips the geometry for clean environments: the track runs low and the load rides above on a flexible vertical pendant that pivots — keeping chain lubricants and track debris below the product instead of over it.
3" & 4" I-Beam Monorail Conveyor
Trolleys ride the lower flange of a structural I-beam — the heavy load capacity workhorse for transporting and storing work-in-process through fabrication, finishing, and assembly.
Side-by-Side Power & Free Conveyor
Power & free pairs a continuously running chain with a free trolley track, so individual loads can stop, accumulate, and switch routes while the system keeps moving. The side-by-side configuration puts both tracks on one level — the solution where limited overhead space is available.
Heavy Duty Over-and-Under Conveyor
Combines power & free flexibility with a heavy-duty over-and-under configuration — powered chain above, free trolleys below — for the biggest loads that still need stopping, accumulation, and routing.
Floor Mounted Power & Free Conveyor
All the routing and accumulation of power & free in a floor-mounted system — ideal for robotic interfaces where loads must be presented precisely, and for clean room applications where overhead structure isn't an option.
Where Overhead Systems Work
Warehousing / Distribution
Deliver knocked-down and erected cartons to pack stations overhead.
Route orders between zones without consuming pick-aisle floor space.
Present carriers to light-directed pick stations in sequence.
Carry away corrugate and dunnage above the operation.
Manufacturing
Carry parts through wash, spray, and cure on one continuous path.
Hang, coat, and bake with minimal handling between stages.
Move work-in-process between cells and buffer it overhead.
Transport individual units through processes of all types.
Overhead Conveyor FAQs
What is an overhead conveyor?
A conveyor that carries product on hangers or carriers suspended from a track mounted above the work floor. For light to heavy duty loads it's an economical, efficient solution that maximizes floor space while conforming to structural contours — with easy installation, low maintenance, and quick delivery of stock components.
What is a power and free conveyor?
Power & free pairs a continuously running powered chain with a free track carrying the load trolleys. Trolleys engage and disengage from the chain, so individual loads can stop, accumulate, switch lines, or take different routes while everything else keeps moving. Configurations: side-by-side (limited headroom), heavy-duty over-and-under, and floor mounted (robotics and clean rooms).
Enclosed track vs. I-beam monorail — what's the difference?
Enclosed track runs trolleys inside a closed tubular track — clean, light-to-medium duty, modular, starting hand-push and upgradeable to powered. I-beam runs trolleys on the lower flange of a 3" or 4" beam — heavy load capacities for transporting and storing work-in-process.
Why choose overhead over floor conveyor?
Floor space and adaptability. Overhead systems are easily modified for added workstations, relocated equipment, or building expansion; fewer moving parts mean minimal maintenance and virtually no downtime; flexible chain pitch maximizes hanging points; and minimal physical handling improves product quality.
What are typical applications?
Warehousing/distribution: empty box lines, order fulfillment, pick-to-light, trash conveyor. Manufacturing: paint systems, powder coating lines, production systems, unit handling — plus enabling smaller tanks, freezers, and ovens, and serving hard-to-reach equipment.
Does Lone Star Automated Systems install overhead conveyors in Houston?
Yes. We're headquartered in Houston, TX and provide design, supply, and installation of overhead handling systems — monorail, I-beam, and power & free — throughout Houston, the Gulf Coast, and all of Texas. Call 713-532-4444 for a quote.
Overhead System Design & Installation Across Texas
Lone Star Automated Systems is headquartered at 2500 Citywest Blvd., STE 150, Houston, TX 77042 and serves manufacturers, finishers, distribution centers, and warehouses throughout the Gulf Coast and statewide.
Ready to Take Your Handling Overhead?
Tell us your loads, paths, and processes. We'll recommend enclosed track, I-beam, or power & free — and quote the complete system from stock components with controls.
713-532-4444