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Versatile Sizes for Rotary Table Accumulators
These Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulators (RTA) in production will ship to a high-volume manufacturer of metal connections, valves and complex assemblies. Most of the precision components made on this customer’s line are delicate and tiny, with slow cycle times. These smaller-diameter 16-inch RTA tabletops are ideal for space-saving at each station, while safely collecting each...
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Give Your Operators a Break
Give your line operators a breather! The Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) collects offloaded product from a prior conveyor, pauses it there for the time duration you want, and then passes it along (surge it) to the next station. In this photo, the Stationary-Fence option is being used. It acts to surge each product off...
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How to: Setting the Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) for Infeed
Many users have asked us, “What’s the best way to set the diverter arm on a Mini-Mover rotary table?” As shipped from the factory, our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units are configured to run in a counter-clockwise (CCW) rotation. [Optional direction change to a clockwise (CW) rotation is accomplished by changing the setting on your...
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Mini-Mover Adds More Sizes to RTA Lineup
To help our customers get the most out of their limited floor space, we’ve “mini-ized” some of our Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units, to add two smaller tabletop models. By popular demand, in addition to our existing models, we offer as standard the 12″ diameter (Model 60-012) and 16″ diameter (Model 60-016) products. Our other...
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CNC Plant Saves Labor and Protects Product with Mini-Mover RTAs
Big time and materials savings for this high-volume machining facility, with CNC cells equipped Mini-Mover Rotary Table Accumulator (RTA) units. As each of the sensitive parts is finished and reaches the lathe’s parts exit chute, the part can move separately onto the RTA unit for collection, without any finished parts rubbing into or dinging each...
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Introducing Uni-Mate: The Labor and Cost Saver for Machining Centers
Get the most productive time out of your machine and materials investment, while saving labor costs. At half the cost of competitive alternatives, the highly portable Mini-Mover Uni-Mate™ family is a purpose-built bundling of our RTA units and conveyors, expressly suited for unattended collection and protection of sensitive parts during daytime or overnight runs. For...
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