News | October 24, 2014

Maximize The Life Of Your Baking Band With Ashworth's New Activetrack Tracking System

The unique design of Ashworth’s ActiveTrack Baking Band tracking system offers proactive and consistent bidirectional tracking of your oven band. This ensures improved product quality and longer band life.

The ActiveTrack tracking system employs the use of high temperature; self-cleaning, non-contact sensors to collect and analyze band speed and position data in order to make small and consistent bidirectional adjustments in order to track an oven band to within +/- 1/8 of an inch. Other tracking systems target to a range and make large corrections to compensate when an oven band is off track. This overcompensation increases the stress on the oven band and reduces band life.

To ensure optimal performance, the ActiveTrack tracking system is equipped with an integrated alarm system and utilizes external heavy-duty bearings and rollers with an adjustable center roll. This system consists of three rollers on the return path and two rollers for the load path of the oven. ActiveTrack is suitable for use with all tight woven, articulated and solid steel bands with a maximum width of 63” (1600mm). Wider widths require an engineering evaluation.For the ease of maintenance, ActiveTrack is powder coated for corrosion resistance.

Ashworth offers full turn-key installation of the ActiveTrack tracking system through Ashworth Factory Service Corporation. For more information, visit www.ashworth.com

About Ashworth Bros., Inc.
Ashworth Bros., Inc. is the only conveyor belt company that engineers, manufactures, and services both metal and plastic belting to offer customers the best solution for their specific requirements. Companies around the world depend on Ashworth’s quality products, reliable customer service, and innovative solutions to maximize throughput and minimize lifecycle costs. With over 60 years of innovating the future of conveyor belts, Ashworth continues to lead the market with the most conveyor belt patents in the food processing, can making, and material handling industries.

Source: Ashworth Bros., Inc.