About | Arrow Design Services
Arrow Design Services Ltd has built a sound reputation for delivering successful solutions to difficult process problems. Our key business objective is to use proven technology to create innovative machine designs.
By paying attention to the detail engineering of projects we can be confident that machines will assemble correctly and work when delivered to site. Arrow supports its products from concept to operation. The supply of spares and post installation care is part of our range of services to customers.
Most equipment failures can be traced back to a fatigue mechanism. Usually, a combination of load, number of operating cycles and materials selection combine to create a fatigue failure. In the design process we aim to work below acceptable material Endurance limits and use correct fits between transmission parts.
We receive some interesting challenges from our customers. In recent years, Arrow has supplied many innovative solutions that include continuous wire feed systems, pneumatic side cheeks for sheeters and product decoration systems. In the early years of the Company’s trading history, we manufactured PU foam dispense systems for steel panels and automated fixtures for welding wall mounted enclosures.
We hope that as either an existing or potential customer for our products that you can gain confidence in Arrow’s capabilities from our strengths and approach to projects.
Flat sheeted products can be enhanced by curling, corrugating or rolling. Arrow can offer solutions that retrofit to existing plant and generate new shapes from flat products. The advantages of adding equipment to existing production lines compared to dedicated sheeting systems are cost and increased plant utilization.
Add a curl to a flat chip. The curling conveyor has two independent circuits – top and bottom. Product is transferred onto the bottom circuit and moves forward on the conveyor to meet the top circuit. The top and bottom circuits interlock, that is the positive profile formers on the top circuit match a reverse former on the bottom circuit. The product is now constrained and holds the shape of the profile.
A ‘Wheel in – Wheel out’ machine for corrugating flat products prior to toasting
Convert flat chips to corrugated chips. The benefit of the ‘Wheel in – Wheel out’ machine is the creation of a second product on a flat chip line. Both flat and corrugated chips can be produced on the same line. A new product is created for a low investment. Conversion from flat to corrugated chips is easy with the ‘Wheel in – Wheel out’ machine.
Part view of product rolling add-on system for snacks
Roll a flat chip into a cylinder. Rolling flat chips at production rates is a difficult task made easy with the rolling rig. A ‘bolt-on’ system, the rolling rig can be installed with the minimum of plant modification. The rig will convert from flat chips to rolled chips with a simple action completed by the operator.
Faster – Easier – Smarter the R&D Smart SensorTM is a multi-element system enabling the collection of 4 key baking parameters in a single pass. The user quickly gathers a complete set of profiles characterizing Environment Temp, Product Core Temp, Airflow and Energy Transfer. To collect this data using individual sensors typically requires four passes through an oven. With its small footprint, only 254mm (10”) wide and only 40mm (2”) of headroom required, the R&D Smart SensorTM will pass through virtually any process. An additional sensor can be supplied to measure humidity. Space is included within the R&D transportation case for the humidity sensor making the larger system easily portable.
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