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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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November 28, 2017 To help our customers get the most out of their limited floor space, we’ve “mini-ized” some of our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units, to add two smaller tabletop models. By popular demand, in addition to our existing models, we offer as standard the 12″ diameter (Model 60-012) and 16″ diameter (Model 60-016) products. Our other...
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October 31, 2017 We’re always interested in how our conveyors can help in university research projects. In this case, the project seems much more interesting than the conveyor! Here we have a geography study at the University of British Columbia, with an LP Series conveyor slowly dropping particles into a water stream. But what these experiments will accomplish,...
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October 17, 2017 This LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor is an integral part of a miniature reject station in Automation Nth’s employee and customer Training Center. The reject station is used to simulate a few of the challenges that controls engineers may face in an actual conveying applications. The company’s controls engineers have the opportunity to connect any one...
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October 6, 2017 Today is Manufacturing Day and this week’s figures from the Institute for Supply Management showed American manufacturing expanded last month at the fastest pace in 13 years. MFG DAY is an annual celebration of modern manufacturing during which manufacturers invite their communities – including students, educators, business-people, media, and politicians – to their facilities in...
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