It is no secret that your hard working crushing, transportation and screening equipment needs regular maintenance during your material processing to maintain reliability and optimal productivity. However, what maintenance can maximize uptime and ultimately lead to a longer life? How often should you check the consumables on the machine and replace them?

Vibrating conveyor screening machine
The screening equipment strives to classify collections of different sizes, so you can further reduce larger fragments while moving smaller fragments along the production line. The nature of the work performed by the sieve during normal operation involves violent vibration of heavy materials, which is somewhat cruel and requires extensive parts replacement and maintenance. The main maintenance problem of the screening equipment is to regularly replace the screening media.

Screen media replacement
Depending on the type of panel used for screening: wire cloth, polyurethane or rubber, your replacement time will vary. In addition, proper screen media support and tension will help maximize the life expectancy of the screen media. Follow the screen media replacement intervals recommended by the device manufacturer to ensure that you do not wait too long and inadvertently damage the support frame, screen hardware, or other components.



Other screen maintenance priority
In addition to changing the screen media, it is important to keep the top of the oil replacement. Similarly, the manufacturer will be able to provide you with recommended replacement intervals, and how often you need to change the oil depends on how you run the screen. For example, preventing materials from accumulating around moving parts on the screening equipment can prevent abnormal contamination, thereby extending oil life.

In fact, preventing dust and stones from accumulating around the moving parts of the screen through daily cleaning measures also helps prevent accidental parts failure. The debris left on the screening equipment can easily damage the pivot motor base, support springs and vibration frame.

Maintain conveyor belt
For conveyors, your goal is to keep the product moving, which means keeping the belt in optimal working condition. Unless the conveyor belt system is improperly operated and causes excessive damage, it is not necessary to completely replace the belt.

Using conveyor belts, many problems can be solved by servicing conveyor belts and adjusting machine components to ensure that conveyor belts are functioning properly. The conveyor belt must be kept clean to prevent the material from sticking and accumulating.

Belt cleaning
When cleaning the conveyor belt, scraping is the most common method. You can make rubber scrapers yourself, but buying a belt scraper assembly to install on the system, and then keeping up with the replacement of conventional scraper blades, is a smarter choice.

As you can see, based on the large number of services these machines need to reduce downtime. Active maintenance avoids costly repairs now and future downtime. Contact us today to learn more about how our factory and safety-trained technicians can help you keep up with the maintenance needs of crushers, screens and conveyors.