How To Create The Ideal Environment For Your Conveyor

Conveyor machinery enjoys operating in the ideal environment. Without certain conditions met, your conveyor will be at greater risk of failing and, though these are incredibly durable machines, will likely malfunction a little sooner than if you’d set up your conveyor to function at its optimal condition. In this piece, we’ll look at what you can do to create the perfect environment for your conveyor to keep bringing your business value and efficiency in the months and years ahead.

Avoid Damp

In larger facilities, damp is always a problem that you have to deal with. Besides your conveyor, most of your other machinery will also enjoy working in dry conditions, as any dampness and wetness of your electrical systems can cause fairly catastrophic damage to your hardware – not to mention your profits. As such, make sure that the environment that your conveyor operates within is as dry and sterile as possible – that way, you’ll avoid the short-circuiting that can put your whole production line out of operation for a number of hours, as your electrical mechanics attempt to fix your machines.

Load

Your conveyors carry a load, and this load varies wildly from business to business. Some facilities are transporting heavy and irregular raw materials from A to B in their facility, while others deal with small, light, and regularly-shaped objects. In general, a conveyor is likely to perform best when it’s loaded with the appropriate weight – and when materials are added to your conveyor gently. When conveyors are loaded roughly, or from a height, the cumulative stress on the conveyor can, over time, lead you to malfunctions and breakages. Be conscious of your load, and how it arrives on your conveyor, to create the optimal conditions for its working.

Emergencies

When you’re operating heavy machinery in a facility, safety is paramount. Indeed, while conveyors themselves are often fairly benign in that they don’t pose a risk to life and limb, the machines that they run between can be a risk to your workers. The ideal conditions for your conveyor to operate in are safe conditions, and the first rule of safety in a warehouse or facility is to have a number of instant kill switches located around your site. Bright red and easy to access, these switches will stop your conveyor in its tracks before a risk develops into an injury for your employees.

Positioning

Finally, if you’re looking to get the very most out of your conveyor belt, you should think about the ways in which you install it in your facility. For example, if you’re likely to be loading your conveyor from a specific location in your warehouse, then having it start as close to that location as possible is an important logistical step to bear in mind during the installation process. Meanwhile, if you position your conveyor low to the ground, you’ll be able to monitor the processes it facilities with greater ease – and you’ll be able to maintain it easier, too. Positioning is important when creating the ideal environment for your conveyor.

Create the best environment for your conveyor with these quick tips.