A Midwest manufacturer of industrial blowers was using a standard v-belt in the tension idlers on its production industrial blowers. The v-belts were breaking after 2-3 weeks, and the manufacturer was obliged to supply new belts u Read More

Five years ago, a large food plant purchased 71 new motors from a BDI competitor. Twenty-six (26) of the motors were installed in the plant’s ejector pump room. In a short period of time, it was obvious that the white-epoxy-finished motors were Read More

Package Handling Jam Prevention for Three Conveyor Types Package handling, or carrier facilities and distribution centers mainly rely on three primary types of conveyors to move, sort, and store packages: belted conveyors, driven roller conveyors, an Read More

 A sand and gravel company customer was having trouble with the conveyor belt on its pug mill. The belt’s head pulley had a very aggressive scraper, leading the customer to assume that vulcanizing was the only option for belt replacement. Read More

BDI had a candy manufacturer that was having issues with water getting into their airlines. This was destroying certain parts on the line and caused unnecessary damage and downtime. The issue stemmed from the compressor, but each individual line was Read More

A leading manufacturer of metal storage systems, shelving, and wire products was experiencing frequent malfunctions in the vacuum pick and place transferring system on their robots. The company’s chief automation engineer contacted SMC hoping 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

At Pilbara Iron’s Dampier Port Operations replacing the bearings on the bucket wheel excavator drive was a maintenance nightmare. The standard unsplit FAG SGC Pillow Block housing was difficult to access. Normally it would have taken 72 hours t Read More

An international petrochemical products manufacturer wanted to expand the knowledge of their engineering team on rolling element bearings specific to the refinery. NSK was consulted and after a review of the plant designed customized training course, Read More

Air Handler V-belts needed to be replaced frequently, required significant maintenance, and they are often inefficient. Replacing these belts with Poly Chain resulted in annual savings of $14,500. This article is available in English Only. Read More