Increase Safety While Reduce Costs By Use Of Conveyor System Manufacturing

Ever since Henry Ford introduced the conveyor system to produce the Model T, these systems have gained popularity as the can reduce cost and increase safety in almost any manufacturing environment. Conveyor system manufacturing allows machinery to transport parts that might cause injury to workers. The allow machines to do work that people would find repetitive or hard work with little effort.

Who could forget Lucy and Ethel at working on a conveyor system at the chocolate factory? The conveyor moved the chocolates along so that the workers could hand package them in boxes.

A favorite conveyor system that demonstrates the usefulness of this system in reducing workers and increasing safety is found at the donut shop. The automated system extrudes and drops donuts into very hot oil for cooking. As the donuts float down the oil stream they cook and are flipped midway. Once finished cooking the donuts are automatically transferred to metal conveyor where they are automatically frosted. At the other end of the belt, the donuts are packaged by an employee.

The system addresses three problems. Without the system, there would need to be a person at several stations along the line. The person shaping the donuts, the person dropping the donuts into the fat, a person to flip the donuts, another to lift them out of the fat, someone to frost the donuts and then the person to package them would all be required. Instead it only takes the one person to package those donuts.

Conveyor systems find many other uses in the food industry. They can be used in preparing pre-packaged foods. They can move foods through ovens so that they are cooked at precisely the correct temperature. They are used in the drink bottling industry as well as the snack food industry. They save manufacturers money and increase safety at each place they are used.

In heavier industries, such as the automotive industry, heavy parts can be safely moved from one work station to another. Without the conveyor system, moving these parts might involve several workers that could possibly be injured at each step of the way. Once parts are painted, they can be moved through high temperature ovens and cooling without the threat of the heat burning a human.

In multi-level manufacturing plants, conveyor systems can be used to move parts from one floor to another and save the time that would be associated with moving them from the first level to an elevator and then back to the new workstation. The part is moved upstairs in just a few minutes rather than half an hour.

Conveyor manufacturing systems offer much more safety than forklifts or other methods of moving materials from place to place.

If you want to increase productivity and safety, why not do what Ford did almost one hundred years ago. He installed a conveyor system to improve the process of manufacturing the Model T and thus he changed the auto industry forever. This system saved him money and allowed for mass production of the car that changed the way that America traveled.