Conveyor

How it is used

Everywhere in factories and warehouses. Common types are belt, roller, chain and modular conveyors. A conveyor runs, stops, indexes, jams or backs up; robots often pick from or place onto a conveyor, sometimes while it moves (conveyor tracking).

Example sentences

1. Boxes keep jamming at the end of the conveyor where it turns 90 degrees.

2. The robot picks parts from the moving conveyor with the help of the vision system.

Common collocations

• belt conveyor
• roller conveyor
• conveyor jam
• conveyor tracking
• conveyor speed

Related terms

• production lineA series of machines, stations and workers arranged in order, where a product moves from one step to the next until it is finished.
• pick and placeA task in which a robot picks up an item in one place and puts it down in another, for example from a conveyor into a box. It is one of the most common robot applications.
• photoelectric sensorA sensor that uses a beam of light, usually infrared or red, to detect when an object is present, absent or passing. Common types are through-beam, retro-reflective and diffuse.
• variable frequency driveAn electronic device that controls the speed of an AC motor by changing the frequency and voltage it supplies to the motor.
• machine visionThe use of cameras, lighting and image processing software so that machines can inspect parts, read codes, measure or locate objects and guide robots.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• conveyor · Oil, Gas & Mining

More terms: Industrial Automation and Production

• automation
• cycle time
• robot cell
• fixture
• SCADA
• fieldbus
• commissioning
• throughput
• Industry 4.0