Food
CASE 147
New drive gear waffle oven
The Challenge
- Premature wear on pressure station bearings
- Jamming of rollers of chain
- Wear and tear of sync pins and therefore synchronization problems resulting in quality failure
- No plans of running gear available
- Intervention time: 1 week
The Solution
- Design and creation of system for reliable synchronisation of running gear for chain
- Design and manufacture of new waffle iron supports
- New setup for tensioning station
- Installation of lubrication system
Production profits
- Unnecessary production loss and unnecessary repair costs have been stopped
- The production profit will increase significantly
- The 40-year-old oven can continue to be used
- The R.O.I. of the oven was adjusted significantly positively
Solving 40 years of problems at a waffle oven of unplanned machine downtimes and quality failure.
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