ConveyorTraining.com is the new one stop location for on-line and hosted workshops and materials presented by Overland Conveyor Company.  We have courses that range from general material handling practices, to the usage of some of the most powerful engineering tools available today.  Here you can view the upcoming classroom workshops we will be hosting, request an on-site training session at a location of your choice, use the forums to ask questions or connect with your peers, and view our new eTraining section.  When you register on ConveyorTraining.com, you gain full access to the forums and access to the eTraining area.   The eTraining section has self-paced courses from a variety of areas such as software, design, maintenance, and management.  We are currently working on the software category and clicking on one of the links below will reveal a course tree of what will be included and what is and is not currently available.  We welcome you to our new online knowledge center and hope you enjoy what we have to offer.  If you have any questions or comments, please either post to the forum or contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Overland Conveyor Co., Inc. is made up of experienced belt conveyor engineers with over 150 years of combined experience in all aspects of bulk material handling. Individual associates have come from mining, manufacturing, and engineering as well as academia therefore our background and perspective is broad and complete. Our combined belt conveyance consulting experience covers the whole range of mining applications on an international basis. We provide services for feasibility studies, design and engineering and continue into installation, commissioning, troubleshooting and failure analysis.

Overland Conveyor Company was contracted by CEMA (Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association) of which we are a member, to study, research and update the fundamental power equations and methods used for system design which was published in April 2005 (6^th Edition of “Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials”). In addition to systems design expertise, we maintain close relationships with many component manufacturers to insure we are up to date on the newest and best conveyor components available.

In addition to our consulting engineering services, we also have a growing training division that provides online eTraining courses, regularly scheduled training classrooms as well as customized, on-site training. We have conducted workshops and classes for the SME (Society of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), The University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and the Colorado School of Mines. We have provided custom training workshops for M3 Engineering, Richwood Industries, Superior, Flexible Steel Lacing Co, LaFarge Canada, CCC Pulleys, Foundation Coal, Baldor, Bowie Resources, EDG Consulting, Olen Corp, Riggs Industries, Continental Conveyor & Equipment Co, Automatic Systems, Metso Brazil, FL Smidth RAHCO, Hatch and Fenner Dunlop. We are certified by The International Association for Continuing Education and Training to provide Continuing Education credits to practicing Professional Engineers.

Today, it’s not just about producing good products. It’s about designing and building equipment that creates a strategic advantage for a company. That means creating design solutions that are economical, practical, robust, reliable and flexible.

There are several computer tools available (from free to expensive) for selecting and evaluating the performance conveyors and components on specific applications. However, the conveyor designer and the ultimate client needs to view all the interdependencies of all the conveyor components and evaluate the most critical design sensitivities. The objective of design sensitivity analysis is to combine the disciplines of structural, mechanical and electrical engineering to develop optimum solutions that are durable, safe, reliable and economical.

The first objective of our presentation will be to demonstrate how the performance of our every component is used by Overland Conveyor Company to simulate the performance of the conveyor system. This is especially useful in evaluating the transient condition of stopping and starting the conveyor. As in most conveyors, building a prototype for testing is uneconomical or impossible therefore design verification is often impossible to get any other way. These Dynamic Analysis tools are becoming more accessible to all engineers and there use is becoming more prevalent as the cost of “poor design” and “field fixing” increases.

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