Year: 2020

October 9, 2020 Oct. 8, 2020 – Washington, D.C. – The Board leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is issuing a call to all Americans to observe COVID-19 safety protocols so manufacturers can continue to work to rebuild the economy. They issued the following joint statement: “As manufacturers for America’s goods and essential products, we have...
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October 6, 2020 When our customers ask, we deliver. Here’s a custom Mini-Mover LP Series conveyor, 1-inch wide with full anodization of the aluminum framework. The goal was to obtain the advantages of stainless steel without the high price tag. This fully anodized conveyor is highly moisture-resistant and clean-running, a perfect solution for the customer’s packaging line.
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September 22, 2020 The Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) can serve as an initial product collection area at the beginning, rather than end, of a process. In this photo, the Stationary-Fence option is being used. It acts to surge each product off the table onto the LP Series conveyor. The conveyor is set up to organize and transport...
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September 18, 2020 For unattended operation, this CNC lathe includes an integrated Lite Series Mini-Mover conveyor for parts removal. The finished parts drop from the lathe’s internal diverter apparatus onto the small conveyor.
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August 25, 2020 This year’s Internet of Things (IoT) World expo was held Aug.11 – 13, 2020 in Virtual format. A Mini-Mover LP Series conveyor was part of a factory-floor simulation demo at Losant’s virtual booth. This demo, according to Losant’s YouTube page, “shows how you can collect IoT data from your manufacturing line and use it to...
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August 12, 2020 The increased visibility offered by a backlit conveyor allows automation systems to perform faster and more accurate functions — such as quality control, measurement and gaging, packaging, coding or ink jet printing, assembly and more. This LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor is being used by a robotics integrator as part of a custom automation vision system.
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August 11, 2020 In the big world of conveyors, Mini-Mover Conveyors are remarkably simple and inexpensive to maintain. But by giving in to the temptation to “save” money by skimping on your routine maintenance checks or essential spares inventory, it can cost you a lot more in the long run. Three (3) Essentials to Keep on Hand We...
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July 15, 2020 For over a decade, our Mini-Mover Conveyors have performed reliably in many applications, with an increasing number of these in severe-duty or 24/7 operating environments. For even longer-lasting performance in many of these scenarios, we’ve developed the Mini-Mover Flex Coupler, which offers robust protection for our LP Series Mini-Mover conveyors with side-mounted drive packages. Our...
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June 30, 2020 We take the “mover” part of our conveyor name seriously. Mini-Mover conveyors can easily travel anywhere on the shop floor with our selection of stands. Shown here is our steel base stand, which allows great stability and easy adjust-ability of height and angle.
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June 16, 2020 It’s not just a low profile, or depth, that defines a small conveyor. Mini-Mover Conveyors is among the few U.S. manufacturers who also make skinny, 1-inch wide units as a standard width option. For applications such as metal stamping or machine integration, these skinny little units solve the space and fit problems.
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