Industrial drive belt tensioning optimization

Abstract

The extension of the useful life of manufacturing equipment is one of the keys to sustainable manufacturing. The high uptime requirements of the Mechanical industry result in the need for conservative preventive maintenance schemes, which leads to replacement of key components before the end of their useful life. One of key machine component facing frequent failure is [1][2]Power transmission belts. There is an urge industrial belt Tensioning showed that many belt failure occurrences is due to over tensioning of belt due to manual intervention. This work will provide device to Tension the belt to optimum level at all circumstances. The design may further extended to have closed loop system to auto adjust the belt tension based on running performance of the system. Such a device would be a complete solution to all belt tensioning problems.