Category: Lite Series Conveyors

July 9, 2019 Many manufacturing processes can be pretty dirty, with dusts, oils and fluids. Our Lite Series conveyors were designed specifically with this reality in mind. For daily parts and scrap transport, Lite Series conveyors stand up to the test — year-in and year-out. These tough little units require no expensive maintenance or heroics to remain reliable....
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June 25, 2019 Imagine if you could have just one portable conveyor to serve the needs of three very different work stations? Well, we did. Our customer needed a steep incline conveyor at one station, a horizontal conveyor at a second, and a shallow incline at the third. Our single-conveyor solution was all in the leg stand assembly...
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June 11, 2019 In the big world of conveyors, Mini-Mover Conveyors are remarkably simple and inexpensive to maintain. But despite the temptation to “save” money by skimping on your tool crib inventory, it can cost you a lot more in the long run. Keep your Work Flowing … We purposely simplify our product designs to keep the number...
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April 2, 2019 Mini-Mover products offer affordable automation for machining and metal stamping operations. Shown here are a Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor, teamed with a Mini-Mover RTA (rotary table accumulator) unit. They’re used for unattended parts unloading and collection for this precision-machining operation.
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January 22, 2019 By adding a “stationary-fence” transfer station option to a Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA), the unit can become a surge table. This allows for pause of product flow, before discharging product back onto the production line. Pictured below is a combination of LP Series conveyor and RTA (rotary table accumulator) set up with surge (stationary...
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November 13, 2018 For this automotive parts manufacture, the addition of a Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyor freed up the operator from manual parts unloading. Shown here is the Lite Series installed on a Haas ST10 lathe.  
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October 16, 2018 Mini-Mover conveyors form a reliable and cost effective solution in automation systems across many industries. Shown here is a print system designed by Kase Equipment of Valley View, Ohio. Serving the plastic packaging industry, Kase designs and manufactures silk screen systems, pad printers, thermal label transfer machinery, and digital printing machinery used to decorate plastic...
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August 21, 2018 This multi-shift plant automated its machine unloading by using inclined Mini-Mover Lite Series conveyors. Each conveyor feeds finished parts up to a portable inspection station for each machine cell.
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June 26, 2018 Mini-Mover conveyors are easy to build right into CNC machines for parts removal. Here’s a Lite Series conveyor that’s used to discharge parts from this machine to a nearby sorting station, which saves the customer the labor of manually doing the task.
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May 15, 2018 Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units are ideal for parts collection, even when loaded up with fluid-soaked or gritty parts. This customer chose to join an RTA and Lite conveyor he already had. An alternative is the use a Mini-Mover Uni-MateTM, which consists of conveyor and RTA and joining hardware, in kit form.
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