Conveyors | Material Handling Equipment

Conveyor Systems in a plant : Medium to large-scale plants require an efficient and effective means for forwarding goods through the help of assembly line. Usually, transportation is achieved via conveyor systems and they are the real force.

For e.g. A conveyor system in a Mobile manufacturing plant, different components from various units arrives at an assigned station with the help of belt conveying system or roller conveyors, at the station all the components are attached or fixed together, thus, making a complete working mobile, then the mobile is conveyed further for mono carton packing, and more further for shrink wrapping of mono cartons.

Then these mono cartons are filled into a bigger corrugated box, which is then sealed with BOPP Tapes and then PP straps are applied for more safety of goods for safe transit, and then conveyed further to get loaded for shipment onto the logistic vehicle. 

Hence, with the help of these conveyors the overall time of transferring goods from one unit to another has been drastically reduced, thus resulting in more efficiency and faster production and reducing a lot of manual involvement for transferring of goods.

The conveying systems helps to transport the material from one unit to another without the help of any human interface to perform functions like washing, flipping, rotating, pushing, indexing, diverting, or accumulating products at various points in the production line.

Their capabilities and performance are therefore enforced and influenced by material and physical properties such as tension, length, and friction, as well as operational capability.

Also, there are various metrics to consider during the selection and installation of a conveyor system, such as appropriate material, ergonomic and user-friendly interfaces, flexibility and scalability, application environment (horizontal, vertical or incline), and load capacity.

Industries require a wide range of conveyor depending upon the applications. conveyor types are Roller Conveyor or Belt Conveyors, which can be used for sortation, accumulation, carousel indexing, vacuum, box sealing, filling, strapping etc.

Roller Conveyors are series of parallel roller bars fitted in a fixed path to transfer goods from point A to point B. the conveyor is powered by electrical motor to provide the movement, the speed can be controlled as per the requirement. These conveyors are made of MS or SS Structure as per the requirement of the industry.

Belt Conveyors are used where the material handling is of small particles like which cannot be transported through roller conveyor or material which can get stuck into the rollers.