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A Conveyor Belt That Helps to Make… Conveyor Belts

A Conveyor Belt That Helps to Make… Conveyor Belts

May 2, 2024

Case Studies

A Conveyor Belt That Helps to Make… Conveyor Belts

A ‘circular’ conveyor belt industry

PJP Conveyors recently created these two off-horizontal belt conveyors for a US business. The business themself has an international remit manufacturing stainless steel conveyor belts. The resulting steel belts at the end of the production line form part of new specialist food-grade systems. These end products transport edible products to freezers and ovens at speed – and as we all know, speed is of the essence in food handling!

Working hard with stainless steel wire

These PJP belt conveyors are from our standard range of tracker conveyors. Their application is to transfer stainless steel formed wire from new machines to three assembly stations. It is at these stations where the wire is made into belts by the customer’s skilled operating staff.

Special features of the PJP belt conveyor system

Each of these PJP belt conveyors is reversable and possesses an independent control system. This builds in a lot of adaptability into the customer’s materials handling processes. Human appendages (we’re mainly talking fingers) are all safe since we included stainless steel finger protection. There is also an emergency stop pull cord to shut the system down at speed if needed. Our conveyors here also have product transfer plates and underslung centre drives which, if you are a conveyor connoisseur like us, you’ll appreciate.

Need a conveyor?

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world – UK, Europe, USA, Asia, Australia – we can help by carefully designing, building and installing just the solution you need. Whether it’s a manufacturing application, a sorting application or a delivery application – simply contact us for a quote.

Conveyor belt for making stainless steel conveyor belts
Conveyor belt system

PJP’s Solution to a Common Warehouse Challenge

PJP’s Solution to a Common Warehouse Challenge

Jan 6, 2023

Case Studies

PJP’s Solution to a Common Warehouse Challenge

A pet-food warehouse conveyor challenge

A pet-food supplier approached PJP to look at ways they could streamline their end of line / despatch process. Traditionally, this critical order despatch process can be a bottleneck for many operations.

The specific challenge was to design a transport conveyor which could deliver totes of picked product to sixteen dedicated packing benches. Operators then needed to be able to pack the products into delivery cartons, apply a courier label and send the completed order to a single despatch location. No walking with, or lifting of, any product during the process was allowed.

Bespoke conveyor design on two-levels

PJP designed a bespoke two-tier warehouse conveyor system with the following capabilities to achieve this:

  • The top tier delivers totes to packing bench positions using Zero-Line Pressure (ZLP) technology. This ensures no collisions or finger traps during use – health & safety is very important to us and our clients.
  • Specially designed packing benches (workstations) then allow operators to simply slide the tote onto their workstation and process it.
  • Once complete, operators use the lower tier by sliding the completed, boxed order onto a small decline belt. An intelligent traffic light system then  automatically drives every box in the warehouse to a dedicated despatch point with no human action required.

Space saving solution

We also very much needed to keep the footprint of the system as small as possible. Space in any warehouse operation is a very valuable commodity. The two-tier setup and twin lane approach gave maximum performance whilst keeping the footprint to a minimum.

Serious uplifts in productivity

Prior to this warehouse conveyor system being implemented, the client was achieving a completed order every 3-4 minutes. The new system allows them to achieve a throughput of one order every 10 seconds. All in all, a very attractive return on investment was achieved which eliminated manual lifting and walking from the process.

Challenge accepted and solution delivered!

Warehouse conveyor that streamlines end of line
Small decline belt on warehouse conveyor
Warehouse conveyor packing benches

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Why not get in touch to tell us about your warehouse challenges? With our skills in designing affordable conveyor solutions that solve your problems, we are sure we can assist.