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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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October 3, 2017 Here’s an educational and interactive Children’s Museum exhibit that uses 1 Lite Series conveyor, 1 dump truck, 3 children and teamwork. Child 1 (pink arrow) cranks the fertilizer pellets into the dump truck. Child 2 (blue arrow) drives the filled truck to the farmland and unloads it, and Child 3 (green arrow) navigates the pellets...
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September 5, 2017 This Lite Series conveyor was installed as an ergonomic improvement to eliminate a high hopper in this electronic parts workstation. The copper Thermi-Foil connectors in this part of the manufacturing process are brazed to shut the wire barrel seams. Then the connectors are collected and moved to the next station. It’s important that the conveyor...
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August 22, 2017 Cleated Lite Series conveyors used in the Rollmaster Paint Roller Bagging System help make this system compact and efficient. Developed by All Packaging Machinery (APM) , the Rollmaster bagger is a great illustration of APM’s design ingenuity to solve packaging application challenges. The system includes a conveyorized paint-roller infeed, automatic cycling option, electric eye for printed film...
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August 8, 2017 No, they’re not racing stripes. The longitudinal cleats, or ribs, on these LP series conveyors are specially spaced to hold and align cylindrical parts as they’re moved in staggered pairs along the belt. We suggested to the customer a ribbed-belt configuration on a single conveyor, which allowed them to save floor space — and avoid the cost of...
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June 20, 2017 Tabletop feet have become a popular accessory for Mini-Mover Conveyors in bench-top applications. These sturdy, rubber-bottomed feet keep the unit stable on the surface, yet completely portable. The feet alone can bring the conveyor up to about 3″ max from the bench surface in most cases. But if a little more height is needed, the...
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June 6, 2017 Sometimes, small changes in a work sequence can save operators a lot of aches and pains. This application uses an inclined LP Series conveyor in a semi-automatic packaging system in the company’s R & D lab. Before the conveyor was added, the operators had to manually place the pallet on the top belt or push...
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May 23, 2017 Lite Series conveyors are being used in a college electrical engineering lab, as part of a PLC/LabView training system (as shown below). The student’ programming goal is to perform the following sequence: First, the main tank on the far left is to fill the other two tanks (Tank 1 and Tank 2 respectively, in purple)....
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May 9, 2017 From product assembly to visual inspection to container laser coding, a combination of LP Series conveyor and RTA set up with surge function, allow this lab to automate the most time-consuming section of its process.
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