How to Boost Production Line Efficiency in Factories

In a factory production line, time truly equals money. Every second your products sit idle, it’s costing your business—delaying orders, inflating overheads, and eroding your competitive edge. To hit peak output and run at full capacity, your production line demands not just speed, but seamless reliability. That means swift handling of breakdowns, minimal bottlenecks, and a smooth flow across every stage, from raw materials to finished goods.

MJE Projects Limited is a Nottingham-based specialist designer and manufacturer of bespoke industrial conveyor systems. Operating throughout Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Sheffield, and the wider Birmingham/West Midlands area, we deliver, install and support high-performance conveyor solutions for manufacturing, automotive, food processing, packaging, and engineering businesses across the region.

This article shares straightforward, proven ways to increase your production line speed and efficiency — all built around choosing and optimising the right conveyor system for your industrial application.

What Impacts the Efficiency of Your Production Line?

• Human Factors: Are your operators fully trained on the equipment and processes? Even small knowledge gaps can cause delays or quality issues on fast-moving lines.

• Equipment Challenges: Worn rollers, misaligned belts, or conveyors not suited to your product weight and shape create constant bottlenecks. Our custom-built driven roller, chain, and steel-belt systems eliminate these problems by being engineered exactly for your load, speed, and environment.

• Material and Process Issues: Oily components, sharp scrap, hot parts, or irregular packaging can damage standard conveyors. Purpose-built solutions (like our heavy-duty scrap conveyors or hygienic food-grade modular belts) keep everything moving reliably and reduce waste.

  
  

How to Increase Efficiency with the Right Industrial Conveyor System

Match Speed to Your Actual Needs

1. Running too fast causes jams; too slow leaves money on the table. Our systems come with variable-speed drives and load-specific belting so you hit the perfect pace every shift.

Add Smart Accumulation and Automation

2. Motorised driven roller conveyors with zero-pressure accumulation prevent products crashing — ideal for packing stations and assembly lines. Add automatic pallet handling or stackers and watch cycle times and labour costs fall.

3. Choose the Correct Conveyor Type for Your Product

   • Light cartons & totes → belt or line-shaft roller

   • Heavy pallets skids → chain or heavy-duty roller

   • Bottles unstable items → slat or modular plastic belt

   • Metal swarf press scrap → steel hinge or scraper conveyors

4. Getting this right first time removes 90 % of daily stoppages.

Go Bespoke Instead of Off-the-Shelf

5. Standard conveyors rarely fit perfectly. A custom system from MJE Projects slots straight into your existing layout, matches your exact height, width, and throughput requirements, and scales as your production grows.

   
   

Ready to Upgrade Your Line?

Investing in the right industrial conveyor system is one of the fastest ways to increase output, cut waste, and improve profitability — and we’re right on your doorstep.

Based in Nottingham and serving Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Sheffield, Birmingham and surrounding areas, we offer free site surveys, fast quotations, and full UK-manufactured systems with local installation and ongoing support.

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Let’s keep your production line moving — faster, smoother, and more profitably.