Category: LP (Low Profile) Mini Conveyors

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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December 3, 2019 This topic never seems to get old. A few years ago, many users asked us to share photo examples of our standard cleats. We created a section in our Belt Sample Gallery on the Mini-Mover website to illustrate our standard cleat offerings. . While optional, cleats are worth considering to keep sensitive products separated. Cleats...
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October 15, 2019 Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have a big imaging project that our LP Series conveyor has helped speed up. So far, the team members have worked through about 3 million seeds. Each seed is imaged and data collected. The Mini-Mover conveyor is ideal for imaging applications since it has a wide speed range while...
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October 1, 2019 Let’s face it. Stainless steel conveyors are darned expensive. But for sanitary food-prep applications, such as working raw meat, dough or other unpackaged food, stainless steel is a must for USDA-complaint cleaning. You really have to be able to hose them down. However, stainless steel units are not necessary in all sections of the food...
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September 4, 2019 Efficient scrap removal is integral in keeping a robotic cell moving quickly and productively. Tough Mini-Mover LP Series conveyors can reliably transport any rough, irregular metal and plastic waste out of the way during production.
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August 20, 2019 Powerful and precise, our popular Compact Group (CG) gearmotor/controller kit is ideal for conveyor applications requiring virtually vibration-free operation and space-saving size. We introduced this kit in 2015, and it’s a real hit in coding, labeling, and inspection applications. And everyone loves the versatility and reasonable cost. Components in this kit use standard commercial AC...
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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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