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5 Different Types Of Conveyors Explained
- Conveyor systems provide a solution to optimize product transportation and improve productivity and efficiency. Reduced walking time, reducing picking time, precise sorting are a few advantages of deploying conveyor systems.
- There are five different types of conveyors: Gravity conveyors, belt conveyors, motorized driven roller (MDR) conveyors, sortation conveyors, and empty corrugate conveyor (ECC) systems.
- Gravity conveyors carry goods by leveraging their weight to move down an incline, making them ideal for larger products with flat surfaces. Belt conveyors are powered by a motor that drives two pulleys encased in a continuous loop belt, perfect to move goods up and down.
- MDR conveyors are often made up of “zones” of rollers, with its motor that drives the surrounding carrying rollers, and are quieter and safer than conventional conveyor systems.
- Sortation conveyors interact with software to scan objects and direct them to their proper areas. They can be pop-up wheel sorters, shoe sorters or cross-belt conveyors, and are ideal for sorting many articles of various shapes and sizes. ECC conveyors transport empty corrugated cardboard from picking and/or packing areas to a specific collecting point to reduce trash collection time.
- Every conveyor system requires regular maintenance, including frequent checks, lubrication, cleaning, and quickly replacing old or damaged components, to ensure top performance and avoid unexpected downtime.
- Extra safeguards may be required based on the operational environment and worker safety concerns, while modern conveyor systems already have critical safety elements.
- To choose the right conveyor system suitable for specific applications, looking into each of these alternatives' characteristics is necessary.
- Warehouse managers employ various conveyors to ensure their operations run as smoothly as possible and optimize their product transportation.
- Conveyor systems bring added benefits to the warehouse industry with minimal ways to waste time and a potent solution against human errors.
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