Although they are often underestimated, rollers are very important components in a conveyor system.
When rollers fail, there are always significant implications with regard to efficiency and costs, not forgetting health and safety implications that also have terrible effects concerning indirect costs. Factors to be considered include:
1. Failed rollers result in conveyor down-time, loss of production and delayed schedules.
2. Seized rollers present a fire hazard, which carries serious health and safety implications for plant/equipment and personnel.
3. Such health and safety considerations almost always have subsequent short and long-term cost implications.