ICTS-The Conveyors Setup

From the first day of conveyors arrival, the vendor together with our side, we did the setup. So today, we manage to run the conveyors as good as expected. Here are the problems we managed to rectify during this few days work.

1- The belt alignment. After thorough inspection, it was found that the misalignment was due to the wrong position of the motor drive. It should be at the front side puling the belt rather than at the back pushing the belt. Rectify the inverter belt rotation and relayout the conveyor. Then loosen the belt, followed by tension adjustment until belt alignment OK.

2- The conveyor rotation. We change the rotation back to square one because the motor drive must be infront puling the belt rather than pushing the belt.

3- The flapping belt edge. Once the belt rotation is OK, then the flapping edge becoming better and better. The belt flapped due to the belt misalignment caused by wrong conveyor belt rotation. Once the rotatiopn of the motor drive is OK, then there is no more clear flapping is happening. The belt gruntled edge would take some time to become really flat. As such it is recommended to let the conveyor to free run to allow the belt edge to flatten again.

4- The conveyors height. The height was adjusted to the height of the packaging machine using the adjustable height balancer.

5- The conveyor motor drive type. It is advisable to upgrade the motor to gear type if the conveyor is designed to start and stop more frequently such as less than 6 seconds. Our existed motor is not meant for that type of activity. As such the challenge now is to ensure the conveyor running smoothly without having to stop more than 10 times in a minute. Else we have to change the motor type to avoid motor burning.