All six of Dorner Manufacturings industrial belt conveyor platforms are now CE certified for operation in North America. CE certification is a requirement enacted by the European Union to ensure products imported into the EU nations meet several health, safety and environmental standards. The motive behind adding the CE certification to its conveyor systems sold…
Power Unit for Wheelchair Lifts and Other Applications
Even though a component is targeted at a specific market, such as medical, it may be useful in a number of other applications with requirements similar to its primary market. Butler Mobility, for example, uses a high-quality, high-tech power lift for its inclined platform wheelchair lift. That same power unit can also be used for…
QC Industries Doubles Conveyor Warranty to 10 Years
QC Industries is now offering to double customers’ warranties to 10 years when they register their conveyors online. Our conveyors have always had a reputation for quality, so we’re excited to double our warranty coverage to 10 years, said Dave Endres, Vice President and General Manager of QC Industries. The 10 year warranty is another…
New SmartGuide: Conveyor Components Catalog
System Plast will introduce at Pack Expo, Sept. 23-25, the material handling industry’s first “interactive” printed conveyor components catalog with an online mirror edition for researching/selecting components, loading a shopping cart, developing a bill of materials, accessing drawings/technical data, specifying popular or related components and finding distributors. A QR code on the front cover of…
Twin Belt Turning Device Gently Palletizes Bags
Palletizing works better with dimensionally stable product. For bags, which can have an unpredictable flow behavior, this can be a challenge. This twin-belt turning device, though, helps palletize bags filled with bulk material in an even, gentle way. The twin-belt turning device works with two separately driven belt conveyors, which, by applying a differential speed…
Custom-tailored drive units for baggage handling
NORD DRIVESYSTEMS designs individual, low-maintenance drive solutions for baggage handling systems. The international manufacturer has already equipped numerous airports throughout the world in diverse locations such as Hamburg, London, Johannesburg and Taipei. NORD Drivesystems dedicated internet portal – www.airport.nord.com – provides a concise presentation of solutions for the airport industry. NORD’s packaged, economic drive systems are…
SPEC engineering software for chain and modular belt conveyor
Emerson Industrial Automation’s new SPEC (System PlastTM Engineering Calculator) – to be released at Pack Expo, Sept. 23-25 – uses built-in intelligence to evaluate applications for steel or plastic chain and modular belt conveyor by validating detailed user specifications with a red, yellow, or green rating. Where possible, the software also presents an alternative optimum…
Flexible and reliable transfer systems
In modular assembly and transfer systems, such as those used in the automotive industry and machine building applications, these accumulation and plate chains perform a variety of demanding transport tasks. The BS 11 modular transfer system is mainly used for manufacturing and assembling components for transmissions, engines or chassis, but it is also suitable for…
Baldor Electric Co. Introduces Dodge D-LAG Conveyor Pulley
Baldor Electric Company introduces Dodge D-LAG conveyor pulleys, a line of stock conveyor pulleys than can lower total cost of ownership. D-LAG conveyor pulleys utilize a cutting edge natural rubber compound that is 73 percent more resistant to wear than standard SBR rubber. By increasing lagging life, Baldor’s Dodge D-LAG conveyor pulleys will extend the…
Dorner’s DTools Conveyor Configurator and CAD Site Now Optimized for Tablet
Dorner Tools (DTools), the online site that’s home to Dorner’s conveyor productivity applications, is now optimized for use with tablet computers, giving customers even more access to the design tools they need to fully configure their belt conveyor systems. This new design and layout improves usability on tablets, and is more flexible to fit varying…
From quarry to consumer
Belt conveying systems enable rapid and efficient transport of bulk material from the quarry to the destination also through rough terrain. One example is a curved belt conveyor. Both troughed belt conveyors and pipe conveyors transport various bulk materials over large distances and often across impassable terrain. Using belt apron conveyors, hot materials, such as…
Conveyor for small, lightweight product handling
Medical applications have specific design issues, for example, moving smaller and smaller parts in a constricted space. The 1100 Series conveyor platform, from Dorner Mfg. Corp., features a ¾ in. frame height. This low profile enables the conveyor to fit into tight spaces, freeing up valuable machine or worker space. The conveyor is designed for…
Winemaker uncorks savings with dry running conveyor
Vincor International’s Quebec is Canada’s largest producer and marketer of wine and related products. The Quebec winery is one of eight worldwide operations spread from New Zealand to the U.K. and California. The issues with the three-year-old, low frictional acetal conveyor chain were wet labels, mechanical reliability and soap costs, and increased costs. These problems…
Flexible zone control
Distribution operations face the challenges of handling a variety of product types, multichannel orders fulfillment, and changing packaging designs. They need control systems that can maximize throughput while maintaining carton control. One system that meets these needs is the ZoneFlex, from Intelligrated. This control helps operators manage the engineering challenges of multichannel order fulfillment and…
Conveyors for packaging
The Precision Move conveyors suit packaging, product assembly, robotic and manufacturing markets that call for extremely accurate movement of product at specific times, distances and intervals. The 2200 and 3200 Series Precision Move conveyors suit packaging, product assembly, robotic and manufacturing markets that call for extremely accurate movement of product at specific times, distances and…
Dorner – Build Conveyor Assemblies with CAD Configurator
Dorner Manufacturing’s new Configurator is an intuitive 2D and 3D CAD platform that allows users to build complete conveyor assemblies to their exact layout dimensions. The CAD tool is an industry first providing the download of a single CAD model of the complete assembled conveyor, saving the time spent matching up individual files. The CAD…
Convey Products Smoothly with Magnetic Chain
Keeping bottles and other products upright while conveying them throughout a warehouse or distribution center can be a challenge. This flat top chain can solve this issue. Magnetic curves for flat top chains, marketed under the Flexon brand, feature almost pulsation free running due to uniformly aligned magnetic fluxes throughout all tracks, thus conveying products…
Low friction means high efficiency in distribution center’s conveyor system
Motion Industry uses an energy efficient conveyor system with low-friction components. Designed by a Montreal-based OEM, the flat-top conveyors use System Plast chain and Browning gear drives from Power Transmission Solutions, a division of Emerson Industrial Automation. The ultra-low-friction conveyor has delivered a range of advantages, including low noise, compactness and low energy use. The…
Precise Automation Ensures Smooth Process and Delivery
Bottling manufacturer Tervis recently had a good problem: business was booming and the company was expanding and hiring additional personnel. For years, its automated facilities relied on Dorner 2200 and 3200 Series conveyors with precision belt technology for the accurate indexing of the tumblers to ensure smooth, uninterrupted flow of production. However, to accommodate its…
Gang Drive Moves Multiple Conveyors
The 2200 Series low profile belt conveyors includes a gang drive option to power and move multiple conveyors from one common motor. This gang drive enables one gearmotor to drive multiple conveyors at the same speed with positively driven belting – a feature that’s useful in automation, sortation, vision inspection, part positioning and indexing applications.…
Robotic Gantry Speeds Case Picking
The case for automation in a distribution center (DC) environment shares many of the same ROI incentives as other parts of the supply chain – flexibility, speed, labor efficiency and allocation and increased throughput capacity. Additional drivers specific to a DC include increased accuracy, lower loss and damage rates, faster response to SKU velocity changes…
Advances in Timing Belts and Drives Ensure Conveyors Position Parts Precisely
In food and beverage lines, conveyors move parts into and out of machines, or they move parts through machines, act as a bridge between machines, or act as the main artery of a production line. An increasingly important capability of conveyor systems is to deliver more precise positioning. Positioning accuracy is influenced by friction, either…
Spiroplan® Right-Angle Gearmotors from SEW-EURODRIVE
High speed, high efficiency, and low noise makes the W37/W47 Spiroplan® right-angle gear units from SEW-EURODRIVE the perfect choice for conveyors in the food, beverage, airport, and material handling industries as well as other logistics. With a robust aluminum housing, Spiroplan gear units are compact, light-weight, lubricated for life, and may be mounted in any…
Mounting Pad Design Makes Conveyor Installation Easy
A big trend in conveying equipment is designing the components for easy installation. For example, the Advanced Aluminum Conveyor Stand uses wide-stance leveling pads for better stability, along with a mounting arrangement for leveling adjustment with the pads bolted to the floor. The leveling pad assembly mounts external to the stand leg, rather than a…
QC Industries Introduces Online Conveyor Configuration Tool
QC Industries has just released a new online tool for quoting and configuring low profile conveyors. The system is first-of-its-kind in the conveyor industry, allowing customers to configure complete conveyor systems through an easy-to-use online interface. The QC Industries Conveyor Configurator allows end users to customize onveyor details — ranging from width and length to…