When belting runs quietly, there’s little wear, and that means long life and very little downtime.
Table Talk Pies, located in Worcester, MA since 1938, makes those four-in. round pies that, if you live in the Northeast, you’ve probably have had the opportunity to try. The processor private labels its pies and sells both fresh and frozen to retailers and wholesalers. Table Talk makes its own pie fillings from the highest-quality fruit and is especially busy during the holiday season—September through December.
With 3,000 pies coming out of its ovens every hour, Table Talk can’t tolerate downtime due to problematic spiral conveyors in the ambient cooling and refrigerated systems, according to Jim Cutler, the company’s maintenance manager. But in Table Talk’s one ambient cooling spiral conveyor, the belting system was beginning to show its age. “We do a significant amount of holiday business, and key to our work is dependability,” says Cutler. “We have to make sure equipment is functioning, and I think spiral [conveyors] should be seen and not heard.