At Dorner, we’re Transforming Conveyor Automation by providing cutting edge precision conveyance solutions designed to increase your efficiency and productivity. With a complete line of industrial belted, modular belt, and flexible chain conveyors, as well as the industries widest variety of sanitary conveyor designs, we have a conveyor for almost every application. Take a look… Read more »
Category: Conveyor Automation
Increase Throughput and Efficiency with a Tote Handling System
See this system in action at the end of the post! Recently, a pharmaceutical company came to Dorner looking for a system that would increase the throughput of their operation. Pharmacists and technicians were manually carrying totes between various order filling stations and the area for verifying and packing. The company needed a way to… Read more »
Lift Gate Provides Added Flexibility to SmartFlex System
Dorner’s 2200 Series SmartFlex conveyors are one of our most flexible systems available. For this application, the customer was moving bottles on a packaging line and needed added versatility. Besides utilizing the flexibility of the SmartFlex conveyor’s tight turns and long runs, the customer required a system that could accommodate multiple bottle sizes. Also, the… Read more »
Vertical Precision Move Conveyor for Elevation Changes in Manufacturing Line
Manufacturing lines aren’t always on a single level. For this paper company, the product accumulator was 20 feet above the paper cutter on the ground level. To transport the paper rolls between machines, Dorner created an elevator to move the product vertically. The rolls of paper travel from the paper cutter down a belted 2200… Read more »
Transfer between Lines with Pop-up Conveyors
We’ve shown pop-up transfer tables in the past, like this one that is changing the orientation of a block of food. In the application described below, the pop-up transfer is used to move product between two packaging lines. The conveyor shown in this video is moving blocks of cheese. Dorner provided two lines of conveyors… Read more »