By R. Todd Swinderman, P.E., Barbara A. Wheatall and Andrew D. Marti, Martin Engineering Until recently, conveyor system design philosophies have been comfortably lodged in the style of the 1950s.

Two Yaskawa SGMGV-05 Servo Motors with 2:1 timing belt reduction serve as conveyor drive motors, powering 3-in. diameter urethane-lagged conveyor belt drive pulleys.

For example, conveyor-design pioneer Jervis B. Webb’s inventions and innovations let companies use the space above the factory for overhead conveyors.

Dust can foul rolling components, machinery, and equipment air intakes, necessitating extra parts and labor for cleaning and maintenance.

Back in the day, engineers didn’t have many options for moving an object from one point to another in a straight line. These ...

Mauger notes that the Glide-Line conveyor itself is not particularly unique in the conveyor market. What differentiates Glide-Line the most, Mauger says, is its software design tool and digital ...

Conveyor system design may be one of them. "By having a digital twin [of your equipment], it's no longer a stagnant model built for [concept development]," Webb says. "It's living, based on what is in ...

As an example, Lauyans cited the case of a custom conveyor it designed to transport axle blanks that had been heated to 2,000 degrees F to robotic machining stations in a manufacturing plant. The heat ...

The system design brief called for the primary crushed bauxite ore of size –150 mm to be fed from the mine end junction house, through a chute to an overland conveyor of 14.5 km.