Product collection functions of accumulation tables can include shipping, packaging, and similar activities at an end station on the line as well as a staging point for the next step in the production process. Product collection scenarios also include unattended machine operation during business hours, or lights-out operation after business hours. There’s often an additional need to protect completed product so it’s not damaged while it accumulates.
In temporary buffering or surge control scenarios, parts or final products can progress and feed into a diversionary mini conveyor or area of a conveyor. This is helpful when the main line stops periodically, when product needs to be redirected to a workstation for alternate actions, or when product delay is needed to prime downstream operations to receive product.
Production lines with upstream bottlenecks can pump out product at capacity uninterrupted while products temporarily break on mini mover accumulation table and allow the downstream production to advance. This can help to trim costs caused from idle time.







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