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April 17, 2018 Meet Ethyl (at 0:18 sec.), Roxy (at 0:40 sec.) and Rocky (at 1:17 sec.) — Vanamatic’s collaborative robots, which incorporate Mini-Mover LP Series conveyors. These in-house-engineered robots integrate multiple functions to improve throughput, remove repetitive motions, increase worker safety and good ergonomics, save labor and boost product quality. Vanamatic Company of Delphos, Ohio, is an...
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April 3, 2018 We can only surmise that some folks really, really have fun at their jobs. This Mini-Mover Lite serves as “ammo loader” for paint cartridges, in lab tests undertaken by a major auto maker. The small, bullet-shaped paint cartridges need to be aligned perfectly, from side to side and in close separation distance — so we...
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March 20, 2018 Add a Lite Series conveyor with multi-lanes to your indexed inspection/coding cell, and you’ve saved a lot of time and space while gaining control over product behavior as it moves through the cell and to the next station.
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March 6, 2018 Mini-Mover conveyors easily adapt to product handling needs that benefit from multiple lanes along a single conveyor length. By subdividing the conveying surface, the user gains precise and space-saving product control for actions such as product separation, sorting, coding, inspection and more. We’ve fitted out Mini-Mover Lite and LP Series conveyors with both fixed and...
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February 20, 2018 This Lite Series Mini-Mover conveyor was attached to a woodworking machine as a return conveyor. Fitting to the customer’s ready-made stand was simplified by the pre-drilled and pre-tapped holes in the Lite Series frame, making conveyor height and angle easy to adjust. The customer noticed and immediate saving in parts-handling labor, with simple operation reducing...
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February 6, 2018 This is a trade show demo of a “mobile conveyor parts counting/verification system” designed and fabricated by SPEDE Technologies, which includes a Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor as well as other important components. This system was displayed at the recent automotive tradeshow in Michigan. The SPEDE system can take human-error out of the counting and verification process...
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January 23, 2018 This parts transport, sorting and inspection station includes four integrated Mini-Mover Lite Series Conveyors. Use of the durable and economical Lite conveyors kept the engineers’ costs lower while producing a reliable high quality result.
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January 9, 2018 When our customer (or customer’s client) has a huge product or concept to demonstrate at a trade show, our Mini-Mover conveyors come in very handy when building functional, miniaturized displays. This video, taken at a recent agricultural expo, uses an LP Series conveyor to help show how a soil-treatment delivery system is used.  
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December 22, 2017 We wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season. We are grateful to you — our loyal customers, partners, suppliers and friends — for another record-breaking year and and look forward to our all sharing a prosperous New Year in 2018.
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December 12, 2017 Here are a pair of LP Series conveyors used in a miniature demo system built to simulate a process environment. This demo shows the rapid scan rate of the Ocean FX spectrometer, made by Ocean Optics of Florida. With onboard processing and Ethernet communications, Ocean FX is ideal for at-line and in-line color measurements, high-speed plastics...
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