Category: Automation Conveyors

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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February 11, 2020 Using sensor-positioning indexing, this Mini-Mover Liter Series conveyor is the core of a high-volume LED tester system. In less than 8 seconds, the tester verifies all LEDs are working, all connectors are present, the bar-code is correct and the board is delivering the correct color-temperature light. The tester automatically sorts good and bad boards after testing, stops if...
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January 29, 2020 High volume precision parts production is worthless without quality results. And a parts catching solution is essential to keep products safe as they exit each running machine. Our customer, who produces automotive and medical parts to global markets, runs 3 plants, 3 shifts and 24/7 using our rotary tables (RTAs) at the discharge end of...
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December 31, 2019 All Mini-Mover conveyors are personalized – built to the exact specifications you request. But it’s not always obvious what to ask for. That’s why we’re here to help. Here are four general areas to consider when getting a quote started for your personalized conveyor. You don’t need to know every answer to the areas below...
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