The efficiency study of belt conveyor for solving batts accumulation problem
Abstract
Material transport systems are used in manufacturing and production environments to
take materials from one location to another. A conveyor system is a common piece of
mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another.
Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of
materials, which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging
industries. If problems occur on conveyor system during running production, it can
disturb the flow of materials transportation. Thus, this study presents Batts
accumulation problems that occur in PGF Insulation Sdn. Bhd. due to the tolerance
between loading time and unloading time from two conveyors. A mathematical analysis
is done using single direction conveyor analysis to find the conveyors efficiency and a
new design for conveyor is proposed in order to overcome the problem. Result shows
that the new conveyor design is better since the loading time is equal or more than
unloading time. The new conveyor design is meet the theoretical rules to overcome the
Batts accumulation problem.