![]() Unfortunately, purchasing on lowest price rather than life cycle cost has become the norm. Many decisions affect the initial and future performance of a conveyor system, with leading trends that include designing for lower risk, greater sustainability and reduced life cycle costs. In reality, they are complex systems that interact with virtually all major processes, and short cuts taken in the design and specification stages will have dramatic and far-reaching effects on safety, productivity and the environment. Many owners view conveyors as fairly simple equipment that merely transport bulk solids from Point A to Point B at a prescribed rate. So conveyors are considered a commodity which can be purchased by the kilogram, rather than a carefully engineered system of hundreds of different components working together (Fig. 1). It’s almost as if designers and manufacturers have provided very robust systems that continue to operate under all sorts of adverse conditions. Belt conveyors are often abused, whether through overloading, overuse or neglect (or a combination of the three). ![]()
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