Follow each conveyor from site survey through section drawings to commissioning on one record.

A conveyor is rarely one machine. It is a run of frames, rollers, belts, drives and guards that must meet on a customer’s floor at the right height. Errors show up only when the last section is bolted. By then it is expensive.

The information that avoids those errors is scattered. The survey sits with the sales engineer, the section list with the drawing office, the belt order with purchasing, and the erection plan in an installer’s phone. A change to one rarely reaches the others before the crew leaves for site, so a wrongly cut frame is often found only after the lorry arrives.

A buyer wants goods moved between two points. Length, width, speed, incline, product weight and the floor plan decide whether a belt, roller, chain or screw design is chosen. The sales engineer surveys the site, takes dimensions, and quotes a layout with drive, guards and controls. Many jobs repeat a standard run. Some are special.

The drawing office splits the layout into sections. The workshop cuts and welds frames, fits rollers, pulleys and idlers, and trial fits sections on the floor before they are numbered and loaded. Belts are cut, joined and tensioned on site, where the take-up travel, the pulley lagging and the splice type decide how long the line runs before it needs attention. The erection crew fits sections. The electrician connects the drive. A commissioning run closes the job.