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Materials Handling Solutions
Materials Handling Solutions

Materials Handling Solutions

Do you have a bottle-neck, WH&S issue, inefficient process, dust problem, blockages, conveyor spillage, loading/unloading issues, plant upgrade, lubrication problems, don't know how to move something?

C-Mac and Aaxiom both located under the same roof now work closely together providing the material handling solutions.

Below are examples of projects that have had a solution provided to customers:

Dust Control

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Truck load out point before and after photos. No power or compressed air required in designed system. 5 years in operation using dust products greater than 5mm in particle size and requiring very low maintenance.
Upgrade to a lime crushing plant dust collection system. The dust is sold as agricultural lime, revenue from the additional dust collected has a 1 year pay back on the system.
Silo Upgrade

Upgrade to a large silo dust collection system. Designed to allow for simultaneous loading from bulk trains, and from the pneumatic conveyance directly from the mills.

Silo dust control upgrad

Blockages

We have developed various chute design and mechanisms to prevent blockages and hang ups from occurring.

Chute below blocked on average twice a month on this project, after $2,000 modification to the chute no more blockages occurred under normal working conditions.

Blocked chute

Material Build-up Problem

Sticky burnt lime required air blasters to control material build up problem.

Spillage Control

Spillage control may require a different approach at times to eliminate the root cause of the problem.

Example 1. The conveyor below has two scrapers and an automatic brush. After conducting an inspection, it was revealed that the belt had hair line cracks causing the carry back of product. Once the belt was replaced the issue was resolved.

Example 2. Spillage at conveyor is caused by material dropping 2.4m straight on to the belt conveyor. Below are the two measures put into place to control the spillage.

a) Baffle plates to slow down the material.

b) A cascading rock box to centre the material onto the belt. 6 years in operation and still working well.

Example 3. Screw conveyor spillage caused by material surge as part of the process. This was controlled by a VSD and level sensor. No mechanical modification was required.

Lubrication Systems

These are examples of before and after lubrication systems we have updated.

Purpose Designed Equipment

We design build and install "Mobile Bulk Bagging" system, designed to interface with any truck loading facility and can load bulk bags up to 2.5T with ±2kg accuracy. Unit can be moved using a folk lift truck.

Material Conveying Systems

We provide a range of material conveying solutions including; pneumatic conveyors, bucket elevators, belt conveyors, screw conveyors and drag chain conveyors.

Plant Upgrades

Example 1. Below a Lime Stockpile stage, was put in to increase the plant flexibility in suppling a wider range of products to the market.

Example 2. Bulk Tanker load out point designed. The load out points are faster, more accurate with built in dust collector.

Example 3. Water injection system used to control a chemical process. The system has been working with great accuracy and reliability since it was installed 4 years ago.

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Plant Equipment Upgrades

Example 1. Before and after photos of a clinker storage bin. Previously the shut-off gate required two fitters for 3 hours to close and reopen the gate. With this simple modification the gate can be closed in minutes by a process person.

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Example 2. Upgrade to a bucket elevator drive. The shaft mounted motor gearbox arrangement replaced a motor, coupling, gearbox and chain reduction. The simplicity of this upgrade reduced maintenance time on this upgrade by 70%.

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Sampling Systems

Before and after photos of a sampling system from bulk tankers. This system eliminated the manual handling and improved quality of the samples by taking a composite sample.

Safety Equipment & Guarding

The kilm access ramp. This clever design allowed for a safe access into the kiln with 15 minute set-up time. A reduction from 1.5 hours for the original set up.

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Environmental

Example 1. Below is a water separator we designed to handle compressor condensate. Had to comply with EPA and water authorites requirements.

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Example 2. Photo of a lime plant in which a number of modifications were made to bring the various equipment to an acceptable noise level.

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Problems we have solved for customers Read Testimonials

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*[Owner/Manager]* A major food manufacturer specializing in tomato sauce had a filling machine breakdown. The machine was brought to C-Mac and repaired in 24hrs for minimum downtime of the production line costing $5,000 per hour.

*[RAAF - Warrant Officer]* Airfield support staff required a portable sandbagging frame and requested a design, prototype and trials at no cost. There was nothing suitable on the market i.e. made in Australia. "Sandbagging Frames":materials-handling/1-bagging-equipment#silt-bagging-frame are now on the national procurement data base and some probably overseas at different war zones.

*[Nursery Manager]* At an exhibition saw our self tracking nursery trailers and indicated he had a costly issue transporting large (heavy) pots containing advanced trees. Existing method was a bobcat. C-Mac designed and quoted for the manufacture of a Self Tracking “Low Loader”. His comment on the first day of using "Low Loader trailer":nursery-equipment/7-trailers/#low-loader-self-tracking-trailer “Can now move 100 litre pots with trees, 150 metres in 1 hr and not get a sore back”.

*[General Manager]* Customer had to submit a proposal and compete against other countries for the manufacturing facility. C-Mac submitted drawings to show there was space in existing plant to install the new process and to comply with all Australian OH&S Standards. Working together with customer to submit proposal to the Head Office overseas WON the contract. Project was a success meeting 6month lead time and budget.

*[Owner]* An industrial laundry system service company needed repairs and redesign done to their tooling. C-Mac made changes to the tooling to make access and ease of use to decrease service down times.

*[Maintenance Engineer]* An industrial hydraulic fitting manufacturer had problems with gear and shaft breakages with their machinery. They also had problems repairing and maintaining. C-Mac offered to repair and maintain their machinery on-site instead of having to permanently employ fitters.

*[Service Manager]* An industrial fan service company had a failure of a major shopping centre air conditioning fan/ blower. C-Mac repaired the unit within a 24hr turn around for minimum downtime.

*[Mechanical Design Engineer]* An automotive transmission design customer needed help with designing an automatic transmission gear prototype. We suggested and engineered a more cost effective and practical way for the mass production stage.

*[Nursery Owner]* Needed a specific Potting & Mixing machine. for his yuccas nursery, but the problem was it was no longer manufactured. From his description and specifications our engineers designed and modelled in 3D software his requirements. "Potting Machine":nursery-equipment/3-potting-machines/ was manufactured and fully tested with potting media in our workshop, video was then sent to customer who was very pleased with the results. Machine disassembled and freighted interstate and installed.

*[Purchasing Officer]* A mining design and machining company needed help with machining components urgently as they were too busy to keep up with the demand. C-Mac machined the components so the deadline could be met.