When you imagine a factory, one of the most common images that come to mind is a conveyor belt. Conveyor belts, ball transfer tables, and other conveyance devices have been a part of industrial manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century. And they have been burned into the public consciousness in popular media, … Read more
Up until recently, assembly lines were literally straight-forward operations, with workers lined up in a row performing specialized tasks as products moved down a sequential line. But with some of the innovative new material handling equipment highlighted at a recent Chicago area trade show could change all that. More than 37 material handling suppliers of … Read more
The Mission: Reduce emissions of cement dust and other “fugitive emissions” at the Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua cement plant in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Solution: An temporary shutdown of the company’s cement processing facility to upgrade its bulk material handling conveyors from top to bottom. Executives at the GCC Dakotah plant recognized that they … Read more
If you are looking for ideas to improve the efficiency of packaging, manufacturing or over materials handling, you need to look no further than your computer’s mouse. If you turn over a mechanical computer mouse, you will find is operated by a small rubber or plastic trackball that controls where the cursor on your computer screen is located. Apply … Read more
Vanderlande Industries, an automated material handling systems firm, have achieved net sales of EUR 741 million in the financial year of 2013, which ended Marth 31, 2013. Their finances have been unchanged since 2010, and with the new 31% increase reflects the market recovery, and the increased market focus, along with international expansion of the … Read more
Swiss manufacturing company Denipro AG has announced a new flexible conveying system called EasyChain, and will have a booth in Chicago later this month at ProMat 2013, to be held January 21 to 24. EasyChain is adaptable to almost any layout, and it increases workloads and decreases the space needed for the conveyor, according to … Read more
Conveyors and sortations before were the only material handling equipment that was automated. Nowadays, there are a lot more equipment that provides easy functionality for everyone, but still feels necessity for conveyors. For example, a goods-to-person solution for picking requires conveyors to be able to deliver products from storage and send them to picking stations, … Read more
The “Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association” or CEMA basing on their accumulated data, relayed that their scheduled orders for February 2012 amazingly increased by 24.8% in comparison to their bookings last February 2011. CEMA also sized up their February 2012 bookings with their orders on January 2012, and it also definitely went up by 13.2%. Though … Read more
A conveyor system is a well known material handling equipment used to continuously move object, materials and heavy equipment. This equipment is widely used in different industrial and commercial applications such as in retail stores, food industries, airport, manufacturing, shipping, processing and others. However, as its name implies, a conveyor system is composed of different … Read more
Ball transfer table is another type of conveyors, which uses omni-directional or multi-directional bearings to move around object and heavy materials. This type of conveyor used the same principle that is used in trackballs, in which a bigger ball is supported by smaller ball bearings. Ball transfer tables are used to conveniently transfer, rotate and … Read more
