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Factory automation moves quickly, and this archive is where the LVP Automation team writes about what is actually changing on Irish production lines. You will find plain English explainers, buying guides and honest comparisons covering conveyors, palletising, robotics, warehouse automation and end of line packaging, written by the engineers who install and support this equipment.

Recent guides ask whether a cobot palletiser suits your production line, compare the main types of pallet wrapper, and work through whether factory automation is worth the investment for Irish businesses. Others cover autonomous mobile robots, automated storage and retrieval, machine tending and high speed sorting. The same three questions run through all of them: what does the technology cost, what does it replace, and how long before it pays for itself.

If you are researching a live project, read the background here and then look at the equipment behind it. Our conveyor range and layer palletisers are the systems most of these articles describe, and every example is drawn from real installations in food, pharmaceutical, medical device, electronics and logistics facilities across Ireland and the UK. New articles are added regularly, so if a topic you need is not covered yet, talk to our engineers directly.

Most of the questions we answer here start the same way: a line is running at capacity, a manual task has become a bottleneck, or a customer has raised a hygiene or traceability requirement that the current equipment cannot meet. The articles below are written to help you scope that problem properly before anyone quotes you for hardware, so that the system you end up with fits the process rather than the other way around.

Spiral Conveyors: Changing Level in a Small Footprint

Multi tier overhead spiral conveyor system carrying product on tracks through a plant

Moving product to a different level is where conveyor layouts get difficult. The three ways of doing it, what each costs in floor space, and how to choose between them.

Carryline Slat Conveyor Systems in Ireland

Cardboard carton on a belt sorter conveyor line with paddle diverters either side

LVP Automation is the Irish distributor for Carryline slat conveyor systems. What a slat conveyor is, how it differs from a belt, the four Carryline configurations, and where slat systems are the right choice.

What Is a Conveyor System?

Plain cardboard boxes merging between two belt conveyors with roller sections

A conveyor system moves material along a fixed route without anyone carrying it. What one is made of, the main types and what each suits, the difference between unit load and bulk handling, and why conveyors often do more than transport.

Conveyor System Requirements: What to Settle First

Curved gravity roller conveyor bend with dark rollers and blue side frames

Most conveyor projects go wrong in the specification rather than the build. Space, load, speed, product characteristics, drive and controls, and what to have ready before you enquire.

Benefits of a Conveyor System: What It Actually Changes

Filled bottles of orange drink travelling along a bottling line conveyor

The case for a conveyor is usually made in general terms. Here is what conveying actually changes in an operation, which of the usual benefits stand up to scrutiny, and the situations where a conveyor is the wrong answer.

Conveyor Faults and Maintenance: A Troubleshooting Guide

Rows of cardboard cartons held on parallel gravity roller conveyor lanes

Most conveyor faults show themselves long before they stop the line. A guide to mistracking, seized rollers, slippage, carryback, spillage and blockages, what causes each, and the maintenance checks that catch them early.

Conveyor Safety Requirements in Ireland

Warehouse staff in high visibility vests handling parcels at a roller conveyor

Much of the conveyor safety guidance online is written for the United States. This is the framework that actually applies in Ireland: EU machinery law on the supply side, the General Application Regulations on the operating side, and what a conveyor risk assessment examines.

Gravity Roller Conveyors: How They Work and When to Use One

Red plastic totes travelling on gravity roller conveyor lanes in a distribution centre

Gravity rollers move product by hand push or a gentle fall, with no drive and nothing to power. Here is what they are good at, what your product base has to be, and where a driven conveyor is the better call.