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November 5, 2019 This customer decided to speed up operations at his CNC lathe. He mounted his Lite Series Mini-Mover directly onto the sliding door under the parts catcher. This way, wherever the operator needs access inside the machine, the conveyor and door slide aside simultaneously. This setup saves them time and occupies very little floor space.
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October 15, 2019 Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have a big imaging project that our LP Series conveyor has helped speed up. So far, the team members have worked through about 3 million seeds. Each seed is imaged and data collected. The Mini-Mover conveyor is ideal for imaging applications since it has a wide speed range while...
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October 1, 2019 Let’s face it. Stainless steel conveyors are darned expensive. But for sanitary food-prep applications, such as working raw meat, dough or other unpackaged food, stainless steel is a must for USDA-complaint cleaning. You really have to be able to hose them down. However, stainless steel units are not necessary in all sections of the food...
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September 17, 2019 Mini-Mover products can combine in many ways to meet your automation needs. By using our equipment for unattended parts unloading, a shop can better use its crew for other tasks during the day, and run light-out at night. Our Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor is a natural companion for our RTA (rotary table accumulator) unit.
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September 4, 2019 Efficient scrap removal is integral in keeping a robotic cell moving quickly and productively. Tough Mini-Mover LP Series conveyors can reliably transport any rough, irregular metal and plastic waste out of the way during production.
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August 20, 2019 Powerful and precise, our popular Compact Group (CG) gearmotor/controller kit is ideal for conveyor applications requiring virtually vibration-free operation and space-saving size. We introduced this kit in 2015, and it’s a real hit in coding, labeling, and inspection applications. And everyone loves the versatility and reasonable cost. Components in this kit use standard commercial AC...
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August 6, 2019 This ag-supply manufacturer packages thousands of plastic product jugs per day. In this capping section on the line, they collect the lids in the hopper, whereupon the Lite Series conveyors lifts them up to the sort & alignment section of the line.
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July 23, 2019 By integrating a Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) to your CNC machine, the need for hand unloading is eliminated. Operators are freed up to do other tasks. Or even to just go home for the evening!
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July 9, 2019 Many manufacturing processes can be pretty dirty, with dusts, oils and fluids. Our Lite Series conveyors were designed specifically with this reality in mind. For daily parts and scrap transport, Lite Series conveyors stand up to the test — year-in and year-out. These tough little units require no expensive maintenance or heroics to remain reliable....
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June 25, 2019 Imagine if you could have just one portable conveyor to serve the needs of three very different work stations? Well, we did. Our customer needed a steep incline conveyor at one station, a horizontal conveyor at a second, and a shallow incline at the third. Our single-conveyor solution was all in the leg stand assembly...
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