Roller conveyors in production and logistics

A roller conveyor is a conveyor system for transporting components, workpieces, tools and other objects. Roller conveyors and the related roller belts are used primarily in industry, manufacturing and logistics.

Roller conveyors transport components and tools on Euro pallets, load carriers or workpiece carriers from one place to the next. Depending on the application, roller conveyors are used with a drive, without a drive or in a combination of both variants. An appropriate gradient that enables driveless transport is important for roller conveyors without a drive.

Adaptable roller systems for different needs

Roller conveyors can be adapted particularly easily to existing spatial conditions and capacities, for example in terms of the track length. In addition, roller conveyors are also particularly flexible in terms of load capacity and can transport not only light but also heavy goods. Curved paths can also be implemented without any problems thanks to conical rollers.

With the WorkflowLiner™ , for example, heavy assemblies can be transported to processing stations that are located in a flexibly linked line without great effort.

Manually pulled assembly trolleys and tool trolleys are usually used for smaller and lighter assemblies. The design is often workpiece-specific, i.e. specifically adapted to the workpieces or tools to be transported.

Load carriers for storing components and feeding them to processing stations are designed more for transporting goods than for processing the workpieces on them. The focus here is on transport technology.

All systems have one thing in common: They are used to transport all types of goods from a starting point to a destination. The goods can remain on the trolley for the processing steps or can be removed for processing and then returned to the assembly trolley.