Category: Automation Conveyors

December 1, 2020 Comet Corn was founded in 2002 to provide healthy snacks at music festivals, ball games and other events in the North Bay area around Santa Rosa, Calif. With increasing demand, Comet Corn began bagging its varied popcorn snack flavors in 2011, to expand distribution through area markets and microbreweries. With the company’s move in 2014...
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November 17, 2020 This system was built for an automotive components manufacturer, and shown here is a work cell where inspection is made faster with the addition of the Lite Series Mini-Mover Conveyors.
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November 3, 2020 Many users have asked us, “What’s the best way to set the diverter arm on a Mini-Mover rotary table?” As shipped from the factory, our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units are configured to run in a counter-clockwise (CCW) rotation. [Optional direction change to a clockwise (CW) rotation is accomplished by changing the setting on your...
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October 27, 2020 The Sterilizing UV Conveyor System, made by Fuller Ultraviolet of Frankfort, Ill., integrates a Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor and ultraviolet sterilization in a single stand-alone unit. This industrial grade unit encompasses the product area and treats all visible surfaces. UV light is proven to kill a wide range of bacteria (such as anthrax, typhoid, strep...
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September 22, 2020 The Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) can serve as an initial product collection area at the beginning, rather than end, of a process. In this photo, the Stationary-Fence option is being used. It acts to surge each product off the table onto the LP Series conveyor. The conveyor is set up to organize and transport...
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August 25, 2020 This year’s Internet of Things (IoT) World expo was held Aug.11 – 13, 2020 in Virtual format. A Mini-Mover LP Series conveyor was part of a factory-floor simulation demo at Losant’s virtual booth. This demo, according to Losant’s YouTube page, “shows how you can collect IoT data from your manufacturing line and use it to...
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August 12, 2020 The increased visibility offered by a backlit conveyor allows automation systems to perform faster and more accurate functions — such as quality control, measurement and gaging, packaging, coding or ink jet printing, assembly and more. This LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor is being used by a robotics integrator as part of a custom automation vision system.
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June 16, 2020 It’s not just a low profile, or depth, that defines a small conveyor. Mini-Mover Conveyors is among the few U.S. manufacturers who also make skinny, 1-inch wide units as a standard width option. For applications such as metal stamping or machine integration, these skinny little units solve the space and fit problems.
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June 2, 2020 Ford Motor Co., in collaboration with GE Healthcare, is now producing a special version of Airon Corp’s FDA-cleared ventilator at Ford’s Rawsonville, MI plant. Ford expects to produce 50,000 ventilator units within the next 100 days, for use on COVID-19 patients in hospitals. Ford plans to produce 30,000 units each month thereafter as needed. Future...
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May 14, 2020 With the COVID-19 threat, social distancing is essential. In both work and day-to day living, this practice will likely become the new “normal” for years to come. Many of our manufacturing customers are now realigning employee work spaces with social distancing in mind. Mini-Mover conveyors are helping to create this safe space.
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