High Reliability

Portec is obsessed with reliability. Operational reliability results from a system’s ability to function in a wide range of environmental conditions and the amount of time between identifying an initial fault and complete failure. A “highly-tuned” system is not reliable if environmental changes or a component fault quickly results in sudden catastrophic failure.

The Portec chain drive/loose-belt system is highly durable. That is, a component fault very slowly moves from initial discovery to systems failure. Slight changes in the conveyor condition results in changes in the tone of the sound made by the conveyor. An experienced maintenance technician can walk past an operating Portec conveyor and know its condition by the tone of its sound. Component faults can be detected months or years prior to actual failure. The Portec chain drive/loose-belt system is highly durable because component faults happen very slowly and highly reliable because catastrophic failures without warning are exceedingly rare.

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