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Food Safe Automated Conveyor Systems and Equipment
Timing Conveyor
Infeed & Outfeed Coordination
SCR’s
automated timing conveyors and infeed systems are designed to synchronize with your processing lines, ensuring precise and efficient product handling. These systems integrate seamlessly with various machinery, enhancing productivity and reducing manual labor.
At a glance: Timing Conveyor
| Technology | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Reduce labor with highly precise delivery | Highly customizable options for motors; induction to servo capabilities |
| Automated convergence and divergence | Toolless sidewall removal for quick setup, teardown, and cleaning |
| Integrates with scaling and vision systems for additional labor savings | Conveyor frames range from 10 gauge to ⅜ inch |
KEY FEATURES
Synchronized/Auto Infeed
Automatically aligns and feeds products into the next stage of processing, ensuring consistent flow and minimizing downtime.
Servo/Encoder Infeed
Utilizes advanced servo motors and encoders for precise control and accurate product placement, enhancing operational efficiency.
Rollstock/Rotary Loading
Ideal for high-speed packaging lines, this system ensures smooth and continuous product loading.
Sleever/Cartoner Infeed
Efficiently feeds products into sleeving and cartoning machines, streamlining the packaging process and improving throughput.
Line-Pacing Conveyor
Our line-pacing conveyors are designed to regulate the flow of products, ensuring balanced and continuous operation. These conveyors are equipped with innovative features to maximize yield and throughput while minimizing manual intervention.
At a glance: Line-Pacing Conveyor
| Technology | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Bulk product containers to programmable line product feed rate | Belting options from thermoplastic to modular, metal detectable to impact resistant |
| Provides consistent feed rates to downstream equipment such as injectors or ovens | Product sensing available through scaling, laser level sensors, or vision systems |
| Allows for consistent product distribution for inspection or further processing | Design priority given to durability, ease of maintenance, setup, and teardown. |
KEY FEATURES
Patent Pending Design
Innovative design to enhance performance and efficiency in your processing lines.
Hopper Saddled Self-Loading Infeed
Automatically loads products from hoppers, reducing manual handling and increasing efficiency.
Manual Loaded Infeed
Provides flexibility for manual product loading, suitable for various processing needs.
Further Processing Line Pace Setter
Regulates the speed of the processing line to ensure consistent product flow and optimal throughput.
Injector Infeed
Maximizes yield and throughput by ensuring precise and controlled product injection into the processing line.
At a glance: Vertical Elevator
| Technology | Reliability |
|---|---|
| Servo control for smooth vertical indexing | Sanitary stainless-steel frame and components |
| Modular design motivates scalability | CIP ready spray bar and open-frame drainage |
| IP69K washdown-rated drives, sensors, controls | Safe torque-off drives and overload protection |
| Flights using FDA & USDA approved materials | Reduces operator lifting, strain, and fatigue |
| Options for automated line communication | Ask about our installation services! |
Frequently Asked Questions
When is an automated conveyor system the right choice for a food processing line?
An automated conveyor system can be a strong fit when inconsistent product flow, manual handling, or poor coordination between equipment is limiting your line. SCR can engineer automated conveyance to synchronize product movement, regulate feed rates, coordinate infeed and outfeed, or move products vertically, depending on where your process needs greater control.
What food processing applications are automated conveyor systems best suited for?
Our automated conveyor systems can support applications ranging from high-speed packaging and rollstock or rotary loading to cartoning, scaling, inspection, injection, oven feeding, and further processing. We evaluate what needs to happen to the product between processes and engineer the conveyance around the required timing, positioning, feed rate, or movement.
Can automated conveyor systems help balance product flow between equipment running at different rates?
Yes. SCR's line-pacing conveyors are designed to regulate product flow and provide consistent feed rates to downstream equipment such as injectors and ovens. Product sensing can also be incorporated through scaling, laser level sensors, or vision systems. This gives you greater control over how product moves through the line and can help improve yield and throughput while reducing manual intervention.
How can an automated conveyor system reduce manual product handling?
Depending on the application, automation can handle tasks such as aligning products, loading downstream equipment, controlling product spacing, converging or diverging product flow, and feeding product at a programmed rate. SCR can also engineer self-loading hopper infeeds and vertical elevators to reduce repetitive manual handling while maintaining consistent product movement.
How does SCR design automated conveyor systems for sanitation and maintenance?
We consider cleaning, setup, teardown, and maintenance access as part of the conveyor design. Depending on the system, features can include toolless sidewall removal, sanitary stainless steel construction, washdown-rated components, CIP-ready spray bars, open-frame drainage, and belting selected for the processing environment. The goal is to make the equipment practical for your sanitation and maintenance teams to work with every day.
How does SCR address employee safety when automating product movement?
We look at where employees are manually lifting, transferring, positioning, or handling products and determine where automation can reduce those demands. For example, SCR's vertical elevators reduce manual lifting, strain, and fatigue while incorporating features such as safe torque-off drives and overload protection. We engineer automation around both the production requirement and the people who operate, clean, and maintain the equipment.
How does SCR approach the design and implementation of an automated conveyor system?
We look at how product needs to move through your operation and where better timing, positioning, pacing, or equipment coordination can improve the process. Depending on the application, we can incorporate synchronized infeed, servo or encoder control, product sensing, scaling and vision integration, automated convergence or divergence, and communication with other line equipment. SCR can also support design, fabrication, installation, testing, and startup as part of the project.
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