Belt conveyor, 3 m x 500 mm, slider bed

Concept design of a 3 m slider-bed belt conveyor with a 500 mm PU belt, for food and packaging lines. Portfolio concept project, not a manufactured product. Scope: 3D CAD in SolidWorks (11 part numbers, 3 sub-assemblies), drive sizing in MATLAB, frame analysis in ANSYS and KeyShot renders. Design: folded channel side beams 150 x 40 x 4 in AISI 304, 5 mm slider bed, D160 drums on D40 shafts, two leg stands in SHS 60 x 60 x 3, shaft-mounted gearmotor 0.25 kW. Transport height 898 mm. Sizing: for 50 kg/m of product at 0.30 m/s the drive needs 456 N of peripheral force and 171 W. Drive shaft equivalent stress 6.7 MPa. Frame analysis: beam model, max deflection 0.16 mm, stresses below 6 MPa, first natural frequency 10.9 Hz. Hand checks agree with the FEA (5.6 vs 6.0 MPa on the side beams).