CCI Solves European Conveyor System Repair, Reducing Costs By Over 40%

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By Doug Backinger VP of Sales

Posted on: January 30, 2018

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Manufacturing High-Quality Parts Domestically for a European Conveyor System.

Situation:

It’s a big notch in the win column when you can lower the cost of repairing a conveyor system made overseas.

An automotive assembly plant needed a heavy-duty conveyor system repaired. The complicated system was a European design and had a variety of drive wheels, idler wheels, and buffer wheels. So, ordering replacement parts overseas was time-consuming and costly.

The customer needed a reliable domestic source to decrease the cost of replacement parts and provide the parts quickly.

Solution:

The engineering staff of Caster Concepts reversed engineered and improved numerous components which incorporate polyurethane, fabrication, and precision machining. These components included: full buffer and drive assemblies, spline polyurethane wheel drive wheels, and precision bore key-way wheels that could be urethane coated for steel.

The customer was able to decrease the purchase cost of these components by over 40% while receiving high-quality domestically manufactured parts that exceeded the quality of the OEM replacement parts.