Your operations running into product damage or bottle necks on your conveyor systems? We can help.
Trew’s Motor Driven Roller (MDR) technology can be used to address the performance of aging accumulation systems. Our MDR technology, unlike traditional accumulators, uses a zero-pressure accumulation approach that reduces product contact and the pressure between touching products to help prevent damage and jams. It is a quiet, energy efficient run on demand technology capable of accumulating on inclines, declines, and curves.
MDR technology can be applied as accumulation or combined with other MDR modules to become a sub-system.
The following is an example of the combination of MDR modules and Trew’s conveyor control to create a MDR Dynamic Slug Merge ideal for the 40 - 70 CPM throughput applications.
Our Customer Experience team was challenged to address operational challenges and created the MDR Dynamic Slug Merge.
The original merge solution used aging accumulation technology feeding traditional live roller powered conveyor.
The system was having difficulty adjusting to the changes in products to be handled, experiencing frequent side-by-sides and jams reducing the throughput the system could achieve.
Trew's Customer Experience team upgraded the customers' application, replacing the aging technology with the MDR Dynamic Slug Merge.
The merge consists of Series 1500 MDR Conveyor and control logic that uses the built-in conveyor photoeyes to optimize merge releases.
The customer has seen a marked improvement in operations with the near elimination of jams and side-by-sides giving operations back nearly an hour of runtime per day.
The Trew MDR Dynamic Slug Merge provides:
- 40 - 70 CPM Throughput
- Run-on-Demand Energy Efficient Motor Driven Roller Design
- Intelligent Lane Balancing
- Flow Efficient Dynamic Lane Releases Based on Available Product
- High Density, Gentle Zone Accumulation
- Gentle Handling that Reduces Side-by-Sides
- Accumulation Zone Visibility
- Quiet Operation
- Operator & Maintenance Friendly Features
What's Trew MDR? Motor Driven Roller (MDR) technology is the fastest growing conveyor technology since the advent of the line-shaft conveyor in the late '60s. Our product line has the largest number of standard modules in the industry, allowing them to be mixed and matched to deliver a system tailored to a solutions need.
- Less Power – uses 30-50% less energy vs. conventional conveyor
- Quiet – run on demand technology with low noise
- Modular Conveyor Line – flexible solutions and layouts using a wide range of standard module
