Knowing your conveyor — and what impact your product has on it — will go a long way in enhancing your business.
Oct 1, 2006
By:
Leo J. Laughlin
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By putting springs inside the idler, we eliminate the inertia of the idler frame from impacting the absorption of the impact.
A major rail-based distribution network beefs up material handling to meet growing customer demand.
Feb 1, 2008
By:
Carol Wasson
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A rail-based distribution network beefs up material handling to meet demand.
Feb 1, 2008
By:
Thomas Woehrl
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Automatic blending and loadout systems designed as user-friendly solution.
An inside look at a little-known key to maximum pulley performance.
Nov 1, 2007
By:
Carol Wasson
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Maximum pulley life is essential to effective material handling and high-capacity production. After all, you can make do without an idler or two, but, as for pulleys, you need them all. Those who have replaced a failed pulley know that it can take several hours or even a full day of downtime and maintenance labor.
Design, amount and other factors have a considerable impact on uptime.
Mar 1, 2007
By:
Ed O'Neil
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Conveyor pulleys and components have design standards that are developed by the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA) and recognized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Pulley designers use these parameters to develop a basis for their designs, which are largely based on shaft deflection. Design basics dictate that if the shaft deflection is limited to a particular amount based on load conditions, the pulley will withstand that deflection and load as well.
Effective material handling equals major cost-per-ton savings. Period.
Mar 1, 2007
By:
Jarrod Felton
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Aggregate mining and processing facilities are becoming rare commodities in many regions. Consider that in the early 1980s, up to 27 percent of the nation's counties consumed more aggregate than they produced. By 2001, that statistic increased to 43 percent. Natural aggregates are in high demand where supply is short. This alone is changing the face of aggregate transportation within the processing facility, and from the pit to the point of use.
Material-handling technology makes barge transport a smarter choice.
Jan 1, 2007
By:
Carol Wasson
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Morse Brothers officials estimate that shipping by barge, rather than by truck, saves the company more than $3 per ton.
Using automated unloading and stockpiling systems, a new concrete producer keeps quality and costs firmly in hand.
Jul 1, 2006
By:
Darren Constantino
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When Rocky Mountain Materials & Asphalt Inc. (RMMA) erected its first computerized premixed concrete plant on the east side of Colorado Springs, Colo., its goal was to take complete control over the concrete production process, from material delivery through the creation of a quality mix.
May 1, 2006
By:
Mark S. Kuhar
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A switch to lower-cost conveyor wiper blades solves a downtime
problem for an Illinois earthmoving project.
