Conveyor Maintenance & Support: Key issues

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Conveyor Maintenance issues solutions
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• Why is maintenance of your conveyor and related
  systems important? The costs of the repair are
  usually the least of your worries. Damage to your
  good name is a cost you cant afford and failure
  to keep your system running efficiently, and
  repair quickly when needed, means failed
  deliverables and a loss of reputation no one
  wants. So good maintenance and highly skilled
  engineers used to diagnose and repair your
  systems promptly when they do let you down are
  critical to your organisation.

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Below, we identify some of the most common
reasons for breakdowns.

• 1. DAMAGED EMERGENCY STOPSEmergency stop buttons
  are vulnerable by their very nature. Designed to
  fail to safe, they can be damaged and later stop
  your system at any time.
• 2. MISALIGNED / DIRTY PECsThe number of
  stoppages due to this is amazing. A simple wipe
  with a duster and check for loose fixings on a
  regular basis can work wonders.
• 3. DRIVE SPROCKET DAMAGEWorn broken sprocket
  teeth caused by not following recommended
  maintenance procedures can lead to noise and
  vibration, broken seals, damaged shafts and worse.

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• 4. DRIVE CHAINSOver or under tensioning of drive
  chains can lead to similar issues.
• 5. COUPLINGSA regular point of failure due to
  the changing load requirements of many systems
  this can also cause vibration throughout the
  system leading to other problems.
• 6. GEARED MOTOR FAILUREModern Geared motors are
  extremely reliable but proper, regular
  maintenance is still required to avoid expensive
  failures.

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THE SOLUTION

• Regular inspection throughout your system,
  especially at known points of vulnerability, is
  the best solution to keep it running to its
  optimum and to prevent unexpected failures.
• At Diamond Phoenix we recognise that ongoing
  service support are critical to the successful
  operation of our clients enterprises. We offer
  our services for the support, maintenance, repair
  and upgrade of automated material handling
  systems provided by all manufacturers.

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• Diamond Phoenix Automation Ltd maintains a
  comprehensive network of service and maintenance
  engineers nationwide in the UK. They will repair
  service your equipment on a determined
  schedule. As part of any annual service proposal,
  we also offer emergency breakdown support with an
  engineer guaranteed on site in less than 4hours
  to all but the most remote sites. We use teams
  based around the UK Ireland all coordinated
  through our own directly employed staff from our
  HQ in Central Milton Keynes which can be
  accessed 24/7 through our 0800 priority telephone
  service.

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