Category: Small Conveyor

October 17, 2017 This LP Series Mini-Mover conveyor is an integral part of a miniature reject station in Automation Nth’s employee and customer Training Center. The reject station is used to simulate a few of the challenges that controls engineers may face in an actual conveying applications. The company’s controls engineers have the opportunity to connect any one...
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October 3, 2017 Here’s an educational and interactive Children’s Museum exhibit that uses 1 Lite Series conveyor, 1 dump truck, 3 children and teamwork. Child 1 (pink arrow) cranks the fertilizer pellets into the dump truck. Child 2 (blue arrow) drives the filled truck to the farmland and unloads it, and Child 3 (green arrow) navigates the pellets...
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September 19, 2017 Sheet metal punch press operation goes a little more efficiently with an LP Series Mini-Mover in this HVAC manufacturer’s facility. After shearing and initial punch shown here, the sheets are stacked for staging to the next operation.
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September 5, 2017 This Lite Series conveyor was installed as an ergonomic improvement to eliminate a high hopper in this electronic parts workstation. The copper Thermi-Foil connectors in this part of the manufacturing process are brazed to shut the wire barrel seams. Then the connectors are collected and moved to the next station. It’s important that the conveyor...
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August 8, 2017 No, they’re not racing stripes. The longitudinal cleats, or ribs, on these LP series conveyors are specially spaced to hold and align cylindrical parts as they’re moved in staggered pairs along the belt. We suggested to the customer a ribbed-belt configuration on a single conveyor, which allowed them to save floor space — and avoid the cost of...
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July 5, 2017 Metal stamping operations gain a great deal of efficiency with ganged Mini-Mover Conveyors integrated into the machine. Built to withstand the tough and often oily, grimy work environment, both Lite and LP Series conveyors can be built to exactly suit the user’s stamping progression, for both parts and scrap removal.
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June 6, 2017 Sometimes, small changes in a work sequence can save operators a lot of aches and pains. This application uses an inclined LP Series conveyor in a semi-automatic packaging system in the company’s R & D lab. Before the conveyor was added, the operators had to manually place the pallet on the top belt or push...
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May 23, 2017 Lite Series conveyors are being used in a college electrical engineering lab, as part of a PLC/LabView training system (as shown below). The student’ programming goal is to perform the following sequence: First, the main tank on the far left is to fill the other two tanks (Tank 1 and Tank 2 respectively, in purple)....
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March 14, 2017 Every Mini-Mover conveyor is fully tested and “burned-in” for a minimum of fours hours before we pass inspection on it and get it ready to ship to a customer. To ensure uninterrupted testing time, we’ve devised portable stack racks fit into limited spaces to better allocate shop-floor space. The rack shown in the video holds...
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January 3, 2017 Mini-Mover conveyors are built not only for rugged daily use but for simple periodic maintenance, which is recommended to keep each unit humming at the lowest operating cost. Many common maintenance issues we help users correct have often stemmed from overzealous tightening of the belting on the conveyor module. Extreme belt tension and improper tracking...
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