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May 20, 2016 Stage 5 of the 2016 Amgen “Tour of California” pro bike race, on May 19, rolled past the Mini-Mover Conveyors campus on the group’s route up the Sierra Nevada mountains to South Lake Tahoe. Our employees got a special break to watch the procession — CHP motorcycle officers, race officials, over 150 riders and scores of...
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April 26, 2016 Based on object detection on the conveyor belt, this economical photoelectric laser sensor option for the Mini-Mover LP Series conveyor makes inspection, sorting and other material handling tasks even easier. It’s a simple but effective solution to help automate these everyday functions. Designed for use with the LP Series conveyor equipped with T-slots, Mini-Mover Conveyors offers...
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April 12, 2016 Ink-jet and laser coding & marking systems can have as many shapes and sizes as the diversity of products and packing in today’s marketplace. Our various ink-jet/laser oriented fixtures are aimed at making the LP Series conveyor a quick, easy production companion that can keep your print quality high. Our Encoder Wheel fits on the LP’s...
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March 8, 2016 When transferring slick, brittle ceramic parts downhill to the next work cell, our customer had a breakage concern. We solved the problem by equipping this declined LP Series conveyor with a sticky, grippy belt to slow the parts on their downhill slide. Sometimes, just a seemingly small change of belting material can make a big...
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February 23, 2016 Combined power, reliability and compactness make Mini-Mover conveyors a popular choice among automotive components manufacturers. The LP series shown here is one of many in this plant that makes plastic components for automotive dampers and insulator products used in chassis assembly.
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February 9, 2016 With the various tabletop mounts available, small-sized Mini-Mover conveyors are proving popular with university research labs, R&D labs and other industrial applications requiring inspection and measurement in confined spaces. Shown here is a LP Series conveyor — chosen for its portability, toughness and affordable price — in a university lab setting.
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January 26, 2016 Transform a single Mini-Mover unit into a multi-tasker. This 3-axis adjustable stand provides our customer with an easy way to use a single conveyor to serve several differently configured stations. It’s a quick change to get the needed height; they can use it leveled or inclined/declined; even swap another longer or shorter Mini-Mover onto it. And...
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January 12, 2016 As we enter 2016, Mini-Mover Conveyors looks forward to continuing its mission to excellence in customer service, quality production and superior product support. During the 2015 year, a major initiative was to transform our ERP/CMS system for even more efficient manufacturing, product support and customer outreach. We are excited in the year ahead to pass more savings of time and cost forward...
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December 28, 2015 Here’s a custom punch press automation system that incorporates LP Series Conveyors, and was designed by AMS Automation of Simpsonville, SC. This system feeds an auto tap station downstream as well. This setup saves the end-user many operator hours each shift. For more ideas on using Mini-Mover Conveyors to automate similar cell operations , see...
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December 8, 2015 Lite Series conveyors saves labor as it collects up to 600 pieces per shift in this user scenario — unattended — on a CNC machine cell in a high-volume ISO 9001 manufacturing facility. But time saved wouldn’t be very useful unless the sensitive parts are kept undamaged and separated, which the Lite Series conveyor does...
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