High performance chain links productivity to solutions inks productivity to solutions: The use of a chain, launched in 2000 as a replacement for standard transmission change, has gone from strength to strength

摘要

The production line at Michelin Tyres' busy plant in Stoke-on-Trent runs for 24 hours a day, six days a week. The line uses a chain which is fitted on a series of drives that rotate two 800kg reels responsible for winding strips of rubber sandwiched around steel wire for despatch to other factories. Such extensive use, however, meant that the chain needed to be replaced every three weeks as part of a planned maintenance regime - and, each time, this involved a two hour shutdown of the line. Over a 12 month period this equated to unacceptable downtime and loss of production, so Michelin looked into finding a longer lasting chain. Following trials, engineers at Michelin selected Renpld's Synergy chain.