IJSRST1737110 | Received : 01 Oct 2017 | Accepted : 16 Oct 2017 | September-October-2017 [(3) 7: 587-595] © 2017 IJSRST | Volume 3 | Issue 7 | Print ISSN: 2395-6011 | Online ISSN: 2395-602X Themed Section: Science and Technology 587 Analysis and Optimization of A Roller Conveyor System by using Ceramic Materials 1 S. Murali Krishna, 2 Dr. R. Ramachandra 1 M.Tech, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, SKD Engineering College, Gooty, Andhra Pradesh, India 2 Supervisor, Principal & Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, SKD Engineering College, Gooty, Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials, which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging industries. The objectives of the project are to model the conveyor system to perform structural analysis to optimize parameters critical parts of roller conveyor system like Roller, chassis and support, to minimize the overall weight of assembly and material of the roller conveyor system, and compare the results with the existing system. The geometrical modeling is to done in Pro/E and Analysis is to done by using Ansys. Keywords: Roller Conveyor System, Ceramic Materials, VSD, Health and Safety, CAD/CAM /CAE software, Parametric Technology Corporation I. INTRODUCTION Material handling is an important sector of industry, which is consuming a considerable proportion of the total power supply. For instance, material handling contributes about 10% of the total maximum demand in South Africa. Belt conveyors are being employed to form the most important parts of material handling systems because of their high efficiency of transportation. It is significant to reduce the energy consumption or energy cost of material handling sector. This task accordingly depends on the improvement of the energy efficiency of belt conveyors, for they are the main energy consuming components of material handling systems. Principle working of belt conveyor Parts of roller. Consequently, energy efficiency becomes one of the development focuses of the belt conveyor technology. A belt conveyor is a typical energy conversion system from electrical energy to mechanical energy. Its energy efficiency can generally be improved at four levels: performance, operation, equipment, and technology. However, the Majority of the technical literature concerning the energy efficiency of belt conveyors focuses on the operational level and the equipment level. In practice, the improvement of equipment efficiency of belt conveyors is achieved mainly by introducing highly efficient equipment. The idler, belt and drive system are the main targets. In the influences on idlers from design,