Sustainability and economic considerations get along so well that you might as well call them best friends. Saving energy is one step in the process, but that’s not the end of it. For instance, Hytrol’s E24 and E24EZ conveyor lines are a good example. Aside from providing a much-needed alternative to convenitonal 24-volt conveyor rollers, these conveyors have immediate and significant sustainability advantages.

How green does conveyor get?

In the case of E24, we’re talking about energy savings as high as 60%.  But then we get into raw materials savings: An E24 conveyor lasts about 6 times as long as a conventional roller at 125,000 hours life expectancy (24/7 runtime). That’s less steel and power used to manufacture it. E24EZ conveyors have a built-in that allows the conveyors to enter an energy-saving “sleep mode” for the ultimate in quiet, efficient, sustainable powered roller conveyor. Because the conveyor can use only one motor for all widths, it’s excellent for reducing needs for specialized, energy-consuming motors. With 3 moving parts, there are many fewer opportunities for parts failure, and the inefficiency that comes with it.

Today’s economy is tough – no doubt about that. Over the last couple of months, we have heard from several clients that they are no longer at their position, and searching for a job. If you’re in that position, we want to help. We are offering the ability for anyone in the industrial space to send us a resumé to be posted on our website. We’ll send a link to the resumé page to about 11,000 of our Material Handling Tips & Info newsletter subscribers every month — companies in our world of industrial facilities, warehousing, distribution, and commercial operations.

Employers interested in browsing resumes should go to www.cisco-eagle.com/resume. We will be adding resumes as often as they are submitted. 

This site is for those who are unemployed and looking for a job in our industry, not for job-changers. If you’re currently employed and seeking a new job, we ask that you not submit a resumé.

If you are not in the industrial, material handling, order fulfillment, warehousing, or distribution market, there are better places for your search. We ask that you not submit a resumé in an unrelated industry.

When you find a job, we ask that you inform us, so we can remove the document. Resumés are ideally submitted as Adobe PDF files, but we can accept Word documents and many other types. To send your resumé, utilize our general inquiry form. Use the document upload field to attach yours. In the notes, inform us that you are submitting a job resumé. We’ll need your e-mail and phone number in case there are any questions on the submission or we have difficulty with your document.

Best of luck in your search. And please, let us know if you find something.

We’ve been posting a series of brief conveyor white papers. There are 5 now, with many others in development for future publication. You’ll always be able to download these PDF files from our site, and will be informed as there are new ones.  This paper, “Conveyor System Implementation Considerations” (PDF file; opens in a new window) focuses on implementation considerations.

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The Material Handling Industry of America has a good video on the subject.

In my mind, material handling can be boiled down to this statement Cisco-Eagle’s leadership team developed years ago:

“Material Handling is a set of solutions for the movement, storage, retrieval, control and protection of materials and products throughout their manufacture, distribution, consumption and disposal. We enable clients to get the right amount of the right material to the right place at the right time in the right sequence in the right position in the right condition for the right cost in a safe manner.”

The Material Handling Industry of America has posted a video that may be helpful if you are starting the process of “greening” your supply chain.

Baby steps are important, especially at the plant level. For instance, in a recent Cisco-Eagle white paper (PDF), we point out the value of energy efficient conveyor motors. A thousand feet of conveyor outfitted with energy efficient motors could cut enough energy costs over five years to pay for 90% of the cost of the equipment. Also, besides its money savings and “green” profile, you are also saving on heat, which means the equipment may require less maintenance, and endure less wear and tear. It’s a win-win.

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We’re compiling a great deal of conveyor-related information, tips and articles into a series of downloadable conveyor white papers.  The first focuses on the basics of conveyor maintenance – what to do, when to do it, and how, in general terms. As the paper says, most conveyors ship with detailed maintenance manuals that will help your staff keep them running at top efficiency. The good news is that conveyors are very tough, reliable machinery. They require maintenance, but for the hours of service and stress put on them, they are remarkably reliable.

• Check out the Basic Conveyor Maintenance Checklist (PDF File – opens a new window)
• Cisco-Eagle’s extensive Service and Maintenance area
• Service, Maintenance and Installation Brochure (PDF FIle -opens a new window)