A food manufacturing plant was purchasing 7,000 feet of generic driver pad for their conveyors annually, all sourced through the original equipment manufacturer (OEM).  While visiting the plant, BDI consulted with the staff about the benefits of int... Read More

The line shafts at a BDI flour mill customer’s facility are up to 30 feet long, with as many as eight split bearings that hang 15 feet above the floor. Shaft sizes range form 2-15/16" to 4-7/16". Some of the shafts were worn out where the beari... Read More

A few years after the successful rollout of Globe Composite Jam Break Tools at a global package handling customer’s sortation sites across the country, BDI’s Technical Solutions Specialist Michael J. Martin began receiving calls from our ... Read More

Excessive wear and tab breakage on bakery belts causes downtime approximately every eight months. The standard UHMW wear strips used by one bakery for years had caused loads of spoiled dough and lost productivity. For information about the BDI-recomm... Read More

An Ohio distribution center used a variety of methods to break chain, with mixed results and an increasingly cluttered maintenance room. The attachment below details how Timken/Drives’ EZ BREAKER delivers consistent results and promotes a tidy ... Read More

A large commercial bakery in the Southeastern U.S. was using vintage dumpers to unload thousands of pounds of dough from a mixer into   a roll-around vat.  The plant was experiencing two-to-three-hour weekly downtime to maintain them, plus regular e... Read More

Conveyors for filling and packaging products are usually designed for one product size, with little room for variation. Changes in demand and container sizes pose challenges for operations teams. As manufacturers introduce new products, they typicall... Read More

The Midwest distribution center (DC) of a leading crafts/home goods retailer welds conveyor belts on site when they are damaged. They had been using a standard belt press, which took at least an hour to complete a repair. The press was dangerous for ... Read More

Segmented Transfer Plates from Flexco can help prevent product loss at the transfer point, preventing potential damage to the product as well as the belt and conveyor structure. Segmented Transfer Plates provide smooth transition from one belt to ano... Read More

An automotive engine manufacturer ‘s conveyor machine had been down for more than a month due to a failed ball screw. The plant was planning to purchase a new machine for $375,000 due to the lack of reference drawings and the misplaced ball scr... Read More