First In First Out (FIFO) Conveyor Systems
A FIFO conveyor takes product in at one end and delivers it at the other in the same order it arrived. First in, first out. Nothing overtakes, nothing gets buried at the back, and the oldest stock is always the next thing available. That makes it a storage method as much as a conveying one: […]
Conveyor Indexing
An indexing conveyor moves product in measured steps rather than a continuous flow. It advances, stops, holds the product still while something happens to it, then advances again. That pause is the whole point: it gives a camera, a label applicator, a filling head, a robot or an operator a stationary target to work on. […]
Accumulation Conveyors
Accumulation is what lets a conveyor absorb the difference between the machine feeding it and the machine taking product away. Without it, every pause downstream stops everything upstream. With it, product gathers in a controlled way at a known point and the rest of the line keeps running. This page covers what accumulation is, where […]