Conveyor Systems Design
Conveyor System Design, From Site Survey to Installed Layout
Getting the design right is what decides whether a line runs at its rated output or stalls at the first bottleneck. Our design team surveys the site, maps how product actually moves through it, and models the layout in CAD and SolidWorks before anything is fabricated — so clashes, pinch points and access problems show up on screen rather than on your floor.
Every layout is built around the real numbers: product size and weight, units per hour, accumulation and buffering between processes, transfer heights, and the floor space you actually have. We design conveyor sections that tie into the equipment already on your floor and into the palletising, packaging and labelling machinery downstream, then hand over drawings our own engineers can build, install and commission from. We survey sites and install nationwide across Ireland from our facility in Finglas, Dublin 11.
What Our Conveyor Design Service Covers
- Site Surveys and Floor Plan Layouts: We measure the space, record existing equipment and services, and produce a scaled floor plan the design is built on.
- CAD and SolidWorks Modelling: 2D layouts and 3D models showing clearances, transfer heights and access before anything is ordered or fabricated.
- Throughput and Flow Analysis: Product rates, accumulation, indexing and buffering worked out so the line holds its output instead of stalling at a bottleneck.
- Integration with Existing Equipment: Designs that tie into machinery already on your floor and into downstream palletising, packaging and labelling.
- Controls-Ready Drawings: Layouts prepared so PLC programming and control panel building can follow on without redesign.
- Turnkey Handover: Fully engineered designs our own engineers can build, install and commission, with spares and service support from Dublin.
How a design project runs
Most projects follow the same four steps, though the depth of each depends on how much of the line is changing.
- Site survey — we measure the space, record existing equipment and note services, access and constraints.
- Concept layout — a first pass at routing, transfer points and where accumulation is needed, for you to react to.
- Detailed design — 2D and 3D models, frame and drive selection, and the drawings fabrication works from.
- Build and commissioning — handover to our own team, or to yours if you are installing in-house.
Related services
Design rarely stops at the drawing. Most projects also involve PLC programming and electrical control panel building, and we can model the line first with simulation packages before committing to steel.
Common questions
Can you work from drawings we already have?
Yes. If you have a site plan or drawings for equipment already installed we work from those, and verify them against the building during the site survey.
Do you design for existing lines as well as new ones?
Both. Many projects add sections to a line that is already running, which is why the survey records existing equipment, services and access before anything is drawn.
What do we actually receive?
2D layouts and 3D models showing clearances, transfer heights and access, prepared so fabrication, PLC programming and control panel building can follow on without redesign.
Do you install what you design?
You can take the drawings and build them yourself, or hand the project to our engineers to build, install and commission, with spares and service support from Dublin.
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