What can the engineering department help with?
BEMA’s engineering department possesses all relevant technical competencies as well as highly educated technical personnel at all levels. This provides our customers with many advantages:
- We can ensure that our customer receives a technically correct solution. This may sound simple, but our customers are subject to a range of requirements, including legislative requirements. All of these must be fulfilled if the chosen solution is to comply with all requirements regarding technical specifications, safety, etc.
- We can help clarify all legislative requirements associated with the individual screw conveyor solution. For example:
- Specifications ensuring that the solution complies with all safety requirements and requirements set out in the Machinery Directive.
- Ensuring that the solution is correct and complies with all welding requirements. This is of great importance to a number of industries, not least the food industry.
- We ensure that the screw conveyor solution complies with ATEX requirements.
- We can ensure that all requirements regarding hygienic properties are fulfilled.
- And we ensure that the equipment complies with all requirements of the PED Directive.
Our equipment
BEMA has invested in all relevant equipment that contributes to optimising the engineering process:
- 3D CAD, Autodesk Inventor. Advanced and essential design tools.
- Scanning camera. Used for measuring the final location where the equipment is to be installed. The accuracy of the scans most often ensures that the equipment can be installed without further modifications and directly from our test setup.
- We have various technical software programs used for technical calculations.
At BEMA, up-to-date and fully comprehensive equipment ensures the best solution for our customers.
We strengthen your capacity
Many customers do not have the opportunity to employ their own engineers capable of defining and designing screw conveyor and rotor solutions. This requires specialised expertise that is often not possible to maintain in-house. This is where BEMA’s engineering department comes into play.
BEMA strengthens your capacity, enabling you to complete screw rotor projects more quickly and with greater confidence.
We are often involved in projects once the customer has defined all surrounding equipment required for a process involving screw rotors. However, it is often a significant advantage to involve us already during the planning phase. The earlier we become involved, the more actively we can contribute with proposals for plant design and installation. We can often create far more innovative, operationally optimised and efficient solutions when screw rotors are considered from the earliest ideas through to the completion of the project.
Relevant for all customer types
Our engineering department is an important partner for all customer groups:
- All types of end customers who require advice on optimising rotor solutions.
- Customers in the planning phase who may not be able to precisely define which screw conveyor solution is required. We provide guidance and relevant proposals based on our extensive knowledge of the complete product portfolio.
- Large manufacturing companies where there is insufficient capacity within their own engineering departments. Instead of purchasing services from an external engineering consultancy, customers can draw on BEMA’s expertise and receive a precisely specified and relevant solution.
Collaboration
The initial specification of requirements is often a challenge for individual customers. Involve our engineering department from the beginning of your project and receive the most relevant proposals for a customised screw conveyor solution.
BEMA’s engineering department is familiar with the requirements that arise when a customer’s internal resources must be integrated with our specialist expertise. Together, we create the best solutions and often make two plus two equal much more than four.
The engineering department is your assurance
Although screw conveyors can trace their roots back to Ancient Greece, when Archimedes invented the screw pump for moving water, and are often regarded as a basic technology, creating the optimal solution for rotor conveying is today a highly specialised discipline.
Involve BEMA’s engineering department and gain a wide range of advantages:
- We have the know-how to investigate surrounding requirements and, where relevant, incorporate them into the finished product.
- We ensure all necessary and legally required documentation for the screw conveying solution:
- Technical documentation.
- Test certificates:
- Third-party documentation of weld inspections. BEMA is recognised for its high welding standards and cooperation with external partners to ensure inspection and a consistently high level of quality.
- Pressure testing of pressure-retaining equipment. Many screw conveying solutions include process elements where the equipment is exposed to pressure, for example during cooking, processing or size reduction.
- Surface inspection of equipment subject to hygiene requirements. This applies, for example, to equipment used in the food industry, where the correct process equipment is crucial to the final product quality.
- Technical calculations:
- Including, for example, structural calculations of pressure-retaining components.
- Capacity and output calculations.
