Before explaining how to calculate conveyor capacity, I will explain what is a conveyor. Conveyor is a mechanical equipment which is designed to move material from one place to another.
Ok, now lets discuss what is a conveyor capacity.
Conveyor Capacity
Conveyor capacity is the maximum amount of material that is transferred by the conveyor in a particular time period. Say, ‘x’ kg in ‘t’ minutes or ‘n’ number of parts in ‘t’ minutes.
How to calculate conveyor capacity
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How to calculate under and overloading of a conveyor belt? For example, in a poultry industry. How to prevent it from happening while trying to convert all the input to output if we have breakdowns, while trying to work away all product (for good yield), with limited amount of time.
Hi Mbalekela,
Need more information to give feedback.
Anyways if you want to utilize the conveyor maximum you need to work on the reduction of breakdowns.
This can be done by finding the root cause of the breakdown through why why analysis.
I am interest in get information about how to calculate a capacity of chain conveyor. I need to calculate tje max capacity for a paint system. I would appreciate your help
Rosa need more data on chain conveyor.
What is the product
And how its moved through conveyor