Product collection of an accumulation conveyor is great for shipping, packaging, and similar capacities at an end station on the line as well as a staging point for the next step in the production process. Additional product collection scenarios could include unattended machine operation during business hours, or lights-out operation after business hours as well. There's often an further need to protect products that have been completed so it's not harmed while it accumulates.
In temporary buffering or surge control scenarios, product can continue to feed into a diversionary small conveyor or area of a conveyor. This is useful when the main line stops intermittently, when product needs to divert to a workstation for separate actions, or when product delay is needed to prepare downstream operations to receive product. (See also "Diverting.") Production lines with upstream bottlenecks can produce at their capacity uninterrupted while products pause on mini mover accumulation conveyors and allow downstream production to catch up. This can help to reduce costs caused from idle time.







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