Conveyor systems are used in many types of businesses, for example: the food industry, personal care industry, pharmaceutical industry, electronics industryand computer industry. It is very common for the products to come in boxes during the end-of-line process and later to be distributed to different areas such as storage and shipping.
What are the features that your conveyor system should have on?
To choose a conveyor system you should consider the following:
- The conveyor system has flexibility for future technical changes and as the factory grows.
- Modular or easily replaceable.
- It adapts itself to the technological advances, allowing the equipment not to become easily obsolete.
- To be efficient in an energy consumption perspective (direct power, alternating, low voltage and high efficiency)
- To have minimum and easy maintenance.
- Low noise level
- To easily get replacement parts in the local market
- Brings real benefits to operators and to the company’s productivity.
Types of conveyors for boxes handling
The types of conveyors are:
- Motorized.
- Gravity.
Gravity equipment is economical, since it takes advantage of gravitational force to create movement.
Motorized equipment can be of band, plastic mesh or roller. They usually receive energy of one or several motor units, pulleys and motorized rollers. This equipment could or could not accumulate products, when it does it is called accumulation and this occurs in such a way that pressure between boxes is minimal or does not exist.
Also, for lowering or lifting boxes are the chain conveyors
How to use these conveyors?
Gravity equipment are used for applications where man’s hand can interfere. Like:
- At the end of a system or in low volume assembly lines
- In workstations prior to a process
- As temporary storage products, minimizing the effort of handling heavy loads
Band, roller and motorized equipment are mainly used for:
- Translation processes
- Band equipment are used up or down
- Roller equipment provides some accumulation capacity.
- Zero-pressure accumulators are widely used within systems to provide temporary storage times, allowing for smooth operation and increasing productivity and capacity.
Keep in mind that a selection of wrong automated solutions will not give you the productivity that your operations need. This will only generate flaws and a low certainty in all your efforts. Find out about all the technological and innovative alternatives offered by GIEICOM.
