During a regular service call, a Bearing
& Transmission service representative was
discussing general plant performance with a
customer. The customer mentioned in passing that
a belt conveyor transfer point was costing the
customer money. The customer went on to
described how the elevation change at the
transfer point was more than ten feet which was
enough to damage product as it passed through.
This resulted in product being broken-up from
impact at the bottom of the transfer chute and
needing to be reprocessed. The customer
estimated that the re-circulating load of
damaged product cost the company approximately
$100,000 annually.
The Bearing &
Transmission service representative offered to
get the technical services group involved. After
reviewing the current set up of the application,
the technical services group worked with the
custoemr and proposed a chute to
install at the conveyor transfer point that
would allow product to make a controlled
descent. This proposed solution would lessen the
impact at the bottom of the transfer point and
thus, prevent product damage.
Bearing & Transmission fabricated the new
arrangement and delivered it to the customer to
be installed.
In follow-up service calls
the customer explained how the
new setup has performed to their expectations
and continues to save them money on an on-going
basis.
In this example the customer
experienced an on-going hard cost DVA savings
resulting from less product being damaged and
needing to be re-circulated. Assuming damaged
product was lessened by only half, the customer
would save $50,000 / year.
For more
information on our technical services
capabilities, please visit
Technical Services.
