Flexible chain conveyors, available in a variety of sizes and with an assortment of chain types, can transport almost any product to enhance production efficiency and overall operations.
Here are four ways a flexible chain conveyor can improve your operations:
- Create Line Egress
Flexible chain conveyors are ideal for various layouts, including long runs, curves, and elevations. By utilizing a quick up-and-down, arch design, you can create a walk-through area for workers or forklifts to access machinery or other parts of the facility without disrupting production. This design eliminates the need for additional equipment like catwalks and crossovers, improving worker safety.
- Reduce Manufacturing Footprint
The versatility of flexible chain conveyors is unmatched. Their compact design can handle complex layouts and tight spaces, reducing your overall footprint and allowing you to utilize space more effectively. Additionally, stacking conveyors can add extra lines and increase production without taking up valuable floor space.
- Improve Product Flow & Control
Flexible chain conveyors can integrate accessories and components such as sensors, gates, chutes, pushers, pucks, and guiding mechanisms to improve and manipulate product flow. Accurate positioning, flow, and routing with a conveyor line can increase speed, improve output, decrease product damage, and reduce the need for additional equipment throughout the facility.
- Provide Accumulation Solutions
Bulk products can take up valuable floor space, whether on a shelf, pallet, or floor and production delays can occur when workers have to load and reload products onto the conveyor continuously. Using a flexible chain conveyor in an alpine or spiral design can solve both these issues by creating an area for accumulation or buffering area, all while keeping production lines running smoothly.
Flexible chain conveyors are ideal for various industries, including automation, material handling, packaging, medical, pharmaceutical, HBA, food and beverage, automotive, and many more. As an authorized Dorner partner, we stock multiple sizes of FlexMove® flexible chain conveyor components and custom-build them to your exact layout.
Contact us today to discuss your application and discover how a flexible chain conveyor can improve your facility.
July 16, 2024
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