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Best Practices for Maintaining a Conveyor for Material Handling

When operating inclined conveyors there are several factors to keep in mind to ensure your operating time is maximized and efficient.

Belt conveyors are the most commonly used powered conveyors because they are the most versatile and the least expensive but this does not mean they do not require servicing.

These conveyors should use only the highest quality premium belting products. This will reduce belt stretch and result in less maintenance for tension adjustments. You must always have a scheduled maintenance plan and keep a log for commonly replaced parts. Keeping your conveyor clean will also reduce service wear and tear. Be sure that all belts, gears and wheels are properly lubricated.

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Sticking to the best practices will provide you with:

Improved Equipment Reliability
Increased Production Output
Reduced Product Loss
Maintain Your Equipment Warranty
Reduce Belt Changing
Minimize Unplanned Down Time
Ensure Safe Conveyor Operations
Save Additional Maintenance Time and Cost

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Ensuring the proper maintenance procedure will help you maximize these safety opportunities and help eliminate future emergencies.

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Mining Conveyor Operation Guidelines

Every year, physical contact with industrial machines and power equipment accounts for a large number of life altering injuries and/or fatalities. A portion of these incidents involve conveyor systems. The majority of these incidents occur during maintenance activities with mining conveyors while still in operation and danger areas not protected.

When operating your mining equipment there are several key factors to keep in mind to ensure your operating time is maximized and efficient. Mining belt conveyors are the mostly popular conveyors because they are the adjustable and the least costly to operate but this does not mean they do not require servicing.

Your conveyors should use only the highest quality premium belting products. This will reduce belt stretch and result in less maintenance for tension adjustments. You must always have a scheduled mining equipment maintenance plan and keep a log for part replacement. Your conveyor should be kept clean at all times. This will reduce erosion and dry rot. All belts, gears and wheels must be properly lubed to function optimally.

Our practices will provide you with reduced maintenance costs, reduced belt changes, improved equipment reliability, increased production output, keep your equipment warranty, minimize down time and safer operations and working environments.

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Preventive measures should be implemented in order for work on or near conveyors to be performed safely. Right from the design stage, worker exposure to hazards should be controlled by reducing the frequency of conveyor clean-ups, conveyor maintenance, removal of jams, etc. This guide to best practices suggests possible preventive measures, but it is by no means exhaustive. In many situations, hazards must be analyzed before any preventive measures are implemented.

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Maintaining Bulk Material Handling Equipment Safety

Material handling equipment is all equipment that relates to the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal. They keyword here being protection and that does not just apply to product it really is the protection of your staff.

The use of best practices while handling and using weighing systems is of the utmost importantance. Ensuring you are not over capacity at all points of your operation. When operating a bulk material machines there are several factors to keep in mind to ensure safety at all times. Preventive measures should be implemented in order for work on or near equipment to be performed safely.

Your conveyors should use only the highest quality of premium replacement products. This will reduce belt stretch and result in less maintenance for tension adjustments. You must always have a scheduled maintenance plan and keep a ledger of part replacements and calendar notification for future replacements to ensure you have inventory. Your equipment should be kept clean and organized. Prater Sterling

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Equipment such as trolleys, hand trucks, pallet trucks, chainblocks and slings used for moving and handling materials should be kept in a safe and serviceable condition. It should be free of cracks or other defects which could cause failure of the equipment or injury to employees using it. Such equipment should be used only for the purpose for which it was designed.
Mechanical equipment such as cranes, hoists, scoops, stackers, forklift trucks and ladders used in stacking, moving or loading materials should be kept in a safe and serviceable condition, and should be regularly inspected and maintained.
Materials handling equipment should be used only for the purposes for which it was designed and should not be operated on steep or rough surfaces which could result in an accident.
No worker should ride on equipment used for the moving, handling or storage of material unless it has been designed for the purpose.
All equipment should be operated in a safe and efficient manner and should not be loaded beyond the capacity for which it was designed.
Materials handling equipment is susceptible to fire from friction heat generated by accumulations of grease and dirt. Fires involving forklift trucks can be caused by equipment failure due to lack of maintenance.

The above best practices work for the following types of handling equipment... On-Rails Transfer Cart, Industrial Trucks, Engineered Systems, Storage and handling equipment and Conveyors.

Our best practices will provide you with reduced maintenance costs and safer operations and working environments.