New SPEC (System Plast Engineering Calculator) design software from Emerson Industrial Automation’s Power Transmission Solutions business helps engineers spec and configure chain and modular belt ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polyurethane belts, with greater elastic memory than rubber, and higher abrasion resistance, are widely used for power transmission and load conveyance. They can be particularly long lasting: Consider ...

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 ...