Category: Automation Conveyors

June 13, 2023 Accumulate products or surge/delay product movement down your production line? Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulators (RTA) can do either job. Shown here is a 24-inch diameter RTA, equipped with dual rails and stationary-fence option for surge action. The adjustable overhead diverter paddle can collect and then direct you products from infeed and collection to the outfeed....
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June 6, 2023 This Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor, equipped with sensor-position indexing capability, is the core of a high-volume LED testing system. The system can verify, in less than eight (8) seconds that all LEDs are working, all connectors are present, the bar-code is correct and the board is delivering the correct color-temperature light. The system will automatically...
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May 30, 2023 Life gets simpler when you add a simple Mini-Mover tabletop conveyor to your product-coding operation, When printing codes (e.g. date codes) on products with an ink jet printer, your product must pass within 1/4-inch of the print head and at a consistent speed. This conveyor can do it. In this photo example, courtesy of Pro...
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May 23, 2023 Do you always need a stainless steel conveyor in a food manufacturing environment? Not always, and Mini-Mover Conveyors offers some economical options for your food packaging needs. This cheese maker uses Mini-Mover Conveyors for product coding and marking. Stainless steel units are simply not necessary in all sections of the food manufacturer’s plant. Once the...
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May 16, 2023 Manufacturing and metalworking can be pretty dirty, with dusts, oils and fluids. Mini-Mover conveyors were designed specifically for factory tasks. These tough little units require no expensive maintenance or heroics to remain reliable. This picture shows an example from one of our customers who manufactures high-volume industrial components. The conveyor has been in regular service...
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April 25, 2023 Mini-Mover Conveyors can take the heat! This manufacturer of miniature high voltage electronic devices uses Mini-Mover conveyors in its potting work cells. (In electronics, potting is a process of coating sensitive parts with a protective material that hardens.) In this potting unit, a Mini-Mover conveyor is used to transport freshly coated components or subassemblies through...
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April 25, 2023 Mini-Mover Conveyors can take the heat! This manufacturer of miniature high voltage electronic devices uses Mini-Mover conveyors in its potting work cells. (In electronics, potting is a process of coating sensitive parts with a protective material that hardens.) In this potting unit, a Mini-Mover conveyor is used to transport freshly coated components or subassemblies through...
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April 18, 2023 Unattended machine unloading and collection is easy with a Mini-Mover Uni-Mate® product: it’s a combined Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) and Lite Series conveyor kit with indexing timer, variable speed controls — with great kit pricing. These hardy units can accumulate delicate parts with care, and even fluid-soaked or gritty parts are no problem. Just set...
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April 11, 2023 Here’s a Mini-Mover LP Series Conveyor used in “squeeze” mode for package integrity testing on medical gel tubes. The tubes are being ejected from a tube filling machine. The LP conveyor mounted over the conveying surface is set to squeeze each tube. This tests each tube to verify a complete seal of the seam along...
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March 28, 2023 Mini-Mover conveyors can help your CNC operator save all that machine unloading for more varied tasks. Instead of manually unloading workpieces, add a conveyor-aided unloading system. The operator is then free to tend several CNC machines or work on other time-critical jobs. With this simple (but effective) bit of conveyor automation, sensitive workpieces can also...
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