Conveyors
Concept specializes in designing and manufacturing task-specific conveyors, including easy to clean sanitary wash-down systems and servomotor driven indexing and elevating systems, as well as integrated systems used to align and arrange products as they move. We custom-build feed and accumulating conveyors to match your production needs and available floor space. suited to high speed assembly of small components. Where high part count or assembly process complexity is involved, these chassis provide sufficient real estate to fit multiple stations side by side. As most of the fixtures are located along linear sections, machines with this type of fixture transport have excellent visibility and provide good access for maintenance.
Sanitary Design
As standards for hygienic manufacturing change with new sanitary regulations, manufacturers can struggle to keep up. Regulations require operations to modify or even replace existing material handling sanitary conveyor for new, updated conveyor equipment that meets current regulations.
Precision Indexing
Precision link indexing conveyors are particularly well suited to high speed assembly of small components. Where high part count or assembly process complexity is involved, these chassis provide sufficient real estate to fit multiple stations side by side.
Elevating
When elevating the production flow, you reclaim valuable floor space, which enables you to add more production capacity or increase accessibility for your operators. Choose the right elevation solution based on factors such as throughput, the processes involved and the features of the products as they appear in the line.
Tool-less Belt Removal
Bacteria can easily harbor in the area under the conveyor belt, making it a prime area that needs to be regularly cleaned — but on most conveyors can prove to be a long and difficult process.
The ability to quickly and easily remove the conveyor belt, without the need for special tools or parts that are easily misplaced or lost, will aide in the cleaning process and give you piece of mind that your cleaning crew is cleaning under the belt.
Look for a conveyor that offers a tool-less belt removal system.
Pivoting Captured Carryways
Belt conveyors require carryways to ensure the belt operates correctly, but when carryways are permanently captured to the frame, they can create pockets of bacteria growth.
Some manufacturers opt for removable carryways to allow for easy cleaning, but that poses a maintenance issue. Any time a component part can be completely removed is an opportunity for it to get lost or broken.
Pivoting captured carryways solve both problems: the carryway is permanently fixed on one end to ensure proper placement and that it doesn’t get misplaced or lost. The pivoting feature allows you to easily lift the carry for cleaning and maintenance.
Accuracy
accuracy value that can be measured along the three directions of length, width, height (X,Y,Z). All measurements will be taken at the fixture locating dowel pin and inspected one link in from the take up end. The “Y” (side to side accuracy) and “Z” (vertical accuracy) tolerance value will be remain the same at any given station along the entire length of the conveyor. The “X” direction tolerance value will be greatest at the link farthest from the drive sprocket and will improve with closer proximity to the sprocket (index accuracy).
No Slipping
A Precision Conveyor eliminates the conveyor belt slippage by using a positive drive toothed conveyor belt (shown below) to effectively lock the belt position to the end rollers. The base version of a precision conveyor still uses a conventional friction surface to locate the product to be moved. As a result, there still exists micro slipping that can take place between the product and the belt but half of the inaccuracies have been removed versus an industrial belt conveyor.