At QC Conveyors, we are dedicated to optimizing your production facility and providing the best possible solutions for your conveyor needs. When it comes to your conveyor system, using genuine QC Conveyor parts is essential for ensuring the longevity and optimal performance of your system.  Here are four reasons why using genuine QC Conveyor parts is important: Properly sized belts ensure proper tension, which increases bearing life: QC Conveyors’ belts are designed to fit their conveyors precisely, ensuring that they are properly tensioned. This helps to increase the life of the b ..read more

Robotiq recently highlighted this case study, where their robotic palletizing solution helped Chicago’s Napco Brands realize a 15% increase in throughput using Universal Robots UR10e collaborative robots. With the rise in robotic palletizing, we’ve seen an increase in demand for our AS40 Conveyors in these types of applications. Our URcap makes them very easy to integrate with the robots! In the video, you’ll see AS40 Conveyors used to deliver filled cases to the cobot and to deliver coffee pods to the case packer. The post AS40 Conveyor in Robotic Palletizing Application appeared first on QC ..read more

Today marks the final day of Automate 2022 and what a show it was! Supply chain challenges and an ever-changing labor market have opened new doors for industrial automation companies. It was wonderful to see how many companies have stepped up to answer those new challenges. Director of Channel Management Stacey Stowell and Marketing Manager Chris Thompson participated in Automate Live hosted by Jake Hall and Chris Luecke. They spoke about the history of QC Conveyors and low profile conveyors, channel management strategy and the future of conveyors and automation. Video Transcript QC Conveyors ..read more

We’re excited to introduce our newest product — CB40 Curved Belt Conveyors — at Pack Expo today! CB40 Conveyors guide product around a 90° turn, maintaining the same orientation at both infeed and outfeed ensuring downstream operations receive product exactly the same way each cycle. With their compact size and low profile, these conveyors complement our AS40 Conveyors perfectly. They include our popular DC brushless motor and controller, making integration easy. Both 12″ and 24″ models are part of our Quick Ship program with 10 day lead times. 6″ and 18″ models are al ..read more

In order to ship conveyors in five days under our Quick Ship program, we stock seven different materials that can be quickly made to length to match the conveyor ordered. Since they cover a wide variety of potential applications and ensure a quick delivery, these seven materials represent approximately 95% of conveyor orders. The seven belt materials include everything from multi-purpose belting to high and low friction varieties. Meet all seven below. MAA This off-white belt material has been our most popular for more than 30 years. It offers a low coefficient of friction that makes it a good ..read more

Each year, PMMI’s Emerging Leaders Network sponsors the On the Rise Awards which honor young professionals in our industry who exhibit outstanding leadership capabilities. Sarah Ziegler from our Key Accounts team has been chosen as one of the recipients for 2020 out of a pool of nearly 100 nominations. Jerry Ruschau nominated Sarah thanks to her “tenacity, eagerness to learn and ability to lead others.” Sarah came to QC Conveyors after a career in early childhood education. Despite her lack of experience in industrial machinery, Jerry recognized that she could make an immediate impact on his t ..read more

The key to meeting the five-day lead times of our Quick Shipping program is our in-house belt manufacturing team. Each year they manufacture thousands of belts with such incredible precision that no one remembers the last time one of their belts was rejected for a defect. The belt materials are stocked in rolls that are pre-cut to the proper widths (we use standard widths across most of our products for this reason). We stock seven belt materials in each of our standard widths, allowing us to quickly splice and prepare belts for approximately 95% of conveyor orders. Special racks hold the rol ..read more

It’s rare for a conveyor system to move just one size product anymore. More often than not, multiple package or product sizes run on the same lines, making quick changeovers important. While adjustable guides allow conveyors to quickly accommodate different product sizes, gripper elevators present a unique challenge. These conveyor systems “grip” the product between two conveyors on their sides in order to move it to a different level or invert it temporarily during production. To accommodate varying package sizes, the gap between conveyors must be narrowed or widened. A fixed mount would make ..read more

QC Conveyors’ online Conveyor Configurator is designed as an easy-to-use tool to help customers find exactly the right conveyor for the application, get a quote and download CAD models. While configuration is intuitive, this guide serves as an introduction to configuring HC200 Conveyors for new users and introduces some tips and tricks that may not be as obvious. Register/Log In Enter your username and password to log in or create a new account. Choose “Configure Now” Navigate to the HC200 section and click “Configure Now” Choose to enter application data We strongly recommend opting to enter ..read more

Adjustable guides make changeovers from one product size to another quick and painless. For straight conveyors, it’s easy to see how the guides move in and out. But for a curved conveyor — like our Flextrac Series modular plastic chain conveyors — it’s not quite as obvious. Changing the radius of a curve obviously changes the curve’s outer circumference, which would require changing the amount of guide material used. Thankfully there’s a simple-but-ingenious way to allow such adjustments: overlapping two separate pieces of guide rail in the curve. The overlap provides the extra mater ..read more