Heavy Machinery Conveyor Solutions
Intelligent Automation Transforms Heavy Machinery Manufacturing
Ensures continuous production and material flow
Boosts efficiency and reduces operational costs
Enhances safety and improves work conditions
Heavy Machinery Automation Challenges
Automating conveying in heavy industry faces multiple systemic challenges. Harsh environments with high heat, dust, and vibrations demand extreme equipment durability. The conveyed materials themselves—heavy, oversized, or irregular—require customized mechanical designs and intelligent controls for precise handling. Retrofitting automation into existing traditional layouts poses major difficulties, including complex system integration, high costs, and production disruption risks. Furthermore, automated systems must achieve real-time coordination with production cycles and logistics, testing data interoperability and smart decision-making. Ensuring safety under strict regulations, especially in human-robot collaboration, remains critical. Ultimately, this automation is not just a technical upgrade but a holistic transformation involving processes, management, and cross-disciplinary integration.
Complex Nature of Materials
The complex nature of materials—such as oversized components, steel products, and other bulky, irregularly shaped, and extremely heavy items—poses severe demands on the load-bearing capacity, positioning accuracy, and flexible adaptability of conveyance equipment.
Harsh Working Conditions
High temperatures, dust, and vibrations commonly found in production environments, often lead to sensor failures and accelerated mechanical wear, making system reliability, durability, and maintenance notably difficult.
High Complexity of System Integration
The high complexity of system integration requires dynamic coordination between conveyance lines and multiple stages such as processing, assembly, and warehousing, involving compatible interfaces for heterogeneous equipment, real-time data fusion, and optimization of intelligent scheduling algorithms.
Balancing Safety and Cost
It necessitates ensuring stability under high-intensity continuous operations, controlling investment in automation upgrades, and safeguarding human-robot collaboration scenarios—all under stringent techno-economic constraints. These factors collectively hinder the implementation of efficient, flexible, and economically viable automated handling solutions.
Custom Conveyors Elevating Heavy Machinery Industry Automation
LONGWEI specializes in the field of heavy industrial automation, providing customized conveying solutions. Our core products include key equipment such as roller conveyors, chain conveyors, slat chain plate conveyors, and ball transfer turntables. Through the deep integration of customized tooling design and automation control systems, our solutions significantly enhance the stability of material handling and the precision of production cycle times. They support unmanned process coordination and real-time online monitoring, thereby helping clients achieve efficient automation, flexible configuration, and reliable continuous operation of heavy-duty production lines. We are fully committed to advancing the heavy industry sector toward intelligent manufacturing.
20 Years of Expertise in Non-Standard Design for Heavy Machinery Conveying Automation
20 years expertise in non-standard automated conveyor design for heavy machinery industry. 100+ successful projects, customized solutions, improved efficiency and reliability.
Customized Tooling Solutions for Heavy Machinery Conveying Based on Material Analysis
Based on an in-depth analysis of the surface conditions and physical properties of materials used in the heavy machinery industry, our company has developed specialized machine tooling that achieves a high degree of coupling between conveying equipment and material characteristics. This integrated tooling solution effectively addresses the challenges of conformal support for non-standard contours and stable conveying under heavy loads.
Standardized Conveying Components Based on Material Characteristics
Based on material surface conditions and physical properties, our company has developed standardized core conveying components, mainly including anti-scratch rubber-coated wheels and V-rollers suitable for pipeline conveying.
Versatile Conveyors, Essential for Heavy Machinery Automation
Specializing in manufacturing of roller conveyors, chain conveyors, slat conveyors and ball transfer table to meet diverse requirements and serve heavy industry automation.
Raw Materials
Automatic Feeding
Raw materials are delivered to the cutting station via a conveyor line, and once cutting is completed, the finished parts exit automatically.
Operational Value
Fully automated
High cutting precision
High blanking efficiency
Full Automatic
Welding Operation
It is a common practice to adopt the combination mode of robotic automatic welding and automatic conveying/transferring.
Operational Value
Reducing labor intensity
Improving quality consistency
Increasing work efficiency
Integrated Conveying & Spraying
Implement the advanced spraying mode that synchronizes the accumulation conveyor or skid conveyor with the spraying robot.
Operational Value
Automated article transfer
Automated article identification
Automated article spraying
General Assembly Automation
The assembly auxiliary line and the main line use smart conveying equipment to achieve flexible material docking.
Operational Value
Boost productivity and capacity
Ensure consistency and quality
Reduce costs and risks
Conveyor Systems & Core Transfer Parts Behind the Solution
Roller Conveyor Systems
Handles flat transport and buffer storage of finished items, palletized loads, and box-type parts, serving as the main artery between automated warehouses and machining stations.
Chain Conveyors Systems
By leveraging the tensile strength and meshing transmission characteristics of chains, it enables rhythmic, fixed-distance movement of workpieces, climbing steep slopes, and conveying through special cross-sections such as fire shutters.
Slat Chain Conveyor Systems
With a metal plate as the load-bearing surface, it can convey high-temperature, sharp, or loose materials while also serving as an assembly workstation—making it the only equipment in heavy machinery plants that combines both “conveying” and “workstation” functions.
Custom Transfer Components
PU lagged rollers effectively prevent surface scratches on workpieces, while V-shaped rollers/V-sleeve rollers are suitable for conveying circular workpieces of varying weights.
Key Benefits of Our Heavy Machinery Solution
Enhanced Stability and Precision
Customized tooling and integrated automation controls significantly improve material handling stability and production cycle accuracy, ensuring consistent and reliable heavy-duty operations.
Unmanned Coordination & Real-Time Monitoring
The solutions enable fully automated process coordination across production lines, supported by real-time online monitoring for proactive management and reduced manual intervention.
Flexible Configuration & Reliable Operation
Modular design and robust components allow rapid reconfiguration for diverse production needs, while maintaining long-term, trouble-free continuous operation.
Superior Workpiece Protection
Key components like rubber-coated wheels and V-shaped rollers prevent surface scratches, reduce vibration, and ensure precise centering—critical for handling high-value pipes, plates, and other heavy materials.
High-Efficiency Heavy Load Handling
Heavy-duty machined universal ball transfer units enable smooth multi-directional movement and positioning of large workpieces, drastically improving workflow flexibility and overall system efficiency.
Application Scenarios
The integrated rack and conveyor solution is suitable for a wide range of warehouse and logistics environments requiring efficient storage, stable material flow, and scalable automation.
Material Automatic Cutting
Achieves a high degree of automation and enhanced efficiency by continuously and precisely transferring materials to designated workstations.
Online Welding
Achieves continuous production and efficient positioning, significantly enhancing welding automation and operational consistency.
Automatic Spraying
Achieves continuous and automated spraying operations through precise workpiece transfer and positioning, significantly improving production efficiency and coating consistency.
