The Story of Conveyors
A Troptech Groups Conveyor System is used for mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials.
Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials, which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging industries. They also have popular consumer applications, as they are often found in supermarkets and airports, constituting the final leg of item/ bag delivery to customers.
Many kinds of conveying systems are available and are used according to the various needs of different industries. There are chain conveyors (floor and overhead) as well. Chain conveyors consist of enclosed tracks, I-Beam, towline, power & free, and hand pushed trolleys.
“Conveyor systems are commonly used in many industries, including the Mining, automotive, agricultural, computer, electronic,food processing, aerospace, pharmaceutical, chemical, bottling and canning, print finishing and packaging.”
Types of Conveyors :
- Aero-mechanical conveyor
- Automotive Conveyor
- Belt conveyor
- Belt-driven live roller conveyor
- Bucket conveyor Chain conveyor
- Chain-driven live roller conveyor
- Drag conveyor
- Dust-proof conveyor
- Electric track vehicle system Flexible conveyor
- Gravity conveyor Gravity skatewheel conveyor
- Lineshaft roller conveyor
- Motorized-drive roller conveyor
- Overhead I-beam conveyor
- Overland conveyor Pharmaceutical conveyor
- Plastic belt conveyor
- Pneumatic conveyor
- Screw or auger conveyor
- Spiral conveyor
- Vertical conveyor
- Vibrating conveyor
- Wire mesh conveyor
Although a wide variety of materials can be conveyed, some of the most common include food items such as beans and nuts, bottles and cans, automotive components, scrap metal, pills and powders, wood and furniture and grain and animal feed.
Many factors are important in the accurate selection of a conveyor system. It is important to know how the conveyor system will be used beforehand. Some individual areas that are helpful to consider are the required conveyor operations, such as transportation, accumulation and sorting, the material sizes, weights and shapes and where the loading and pickup points need to be.
As a conveyor is extremely important in a company to efficiently increase its production in an extremely judicious manner, it is considered the lifeline of their business.
Proper maintenance is therefore an important need to insure its high performance rating. It requires frequent inspection and monitoring of motors, availability of key parts, and proper training of maintenance personnel.
Picking the proper conveyor type and system design is extremely important to ensure it works as envisioned. An accurate selection of a suitable conveyor system is therefore important. Things just like shape, weight and material of the conveyed products need to be considered. Proper maintenance would increase the service life of your conveyor system.
The goal behind the modularity of the system is to let the products take over as many routine tasks as possible, therefore allowing the engineer to use his energy to create an ideal solution tailored to more specific technical circumstances.
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