Until recently, conveyor system design philosophies have been comfortably lodged in the style of the 1950s. Armed with information on the required capacity, space available and budget constraints, the ...

How do today’s manufacturers efficiently move bulky materials into, out of, and around their facilities? Engineers at Ultimation Industries, a leader in conveyor technology and automation for nearly ...

I rounded out 2010 with a series of columns on the hazards of conveyors (“Analyzing Conveyor Designs for Safety,” Machine Design, Sept. 23, 2010, tinyurl.com ...

Unable to get the conveyors it needed to address customer demands, a system integrator sets out to address the problem on its own and ends up creating not only a new conveyor product, but a different ...

You may think a conveyor’s primary job is moving material from point to point throughout a processing system. In truth, a conveyor is much more than a means of conveyance. This equipment plays a ...

Victoria Kickham, Senior Editor, started her career as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area before moving into B2B journalism. She has covered manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain issues ...

The system connects a new ore body to the existing processing facilities. In its final stage it will transport primary crushed copper ore at more than 12,000 t/h. Running at 6 m/sec, the 2 m wide belt ...

A comprehensive two-day course in chute design and modelling was recently held at the Centre for Mechanised Mining Systems (CMMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, endorsed by the ...

Superior Industries, a U.S. manufacturer of bulk material processing and handling equipment, has been granted a patent for the recirculating conveyor system used on its Portable Sentry Horizontal ...

Voltage conveyors and current conveyors represent two pivotal active building blocks in contemporary analog circuit design. Their unique signal processing capabilities allow for efficient voltage ...

New environmental regulations have forced many coal power plant operators to consider alternative options for handling their boiler bottom ash. Although mechanical drag systems can often meet ...