Increase elevator precision and achieve multiple positions within a conveyor elevator to handle pallets better in your clients’ automation processes with an electrical servo-driven VTU.

When vertical transfer units aren’t tied to single-function designs, the sky's the limit and possibilities of use are greatly expanded. VTUs create greater access within an automated conveyor system. Instead of requiring an employee, maintenance worker, or robot to move, climb, or adjust to various points on a conveyor to perform an operation, using a lift within the conveyor line creates access to the product without loss of time.

Vertical transfer units (VTUs – otherwise known as pallet elevators) can perform functions that would otherwise require another piece – or multiple pieces – of equipment within a conveyor system. This solution saves the space that would have been taken up by ancillary equipment and makes the automated conveyor system more efficient to operate, assemble, and maintain. But one question we frequently receive about these vertical transfer units is about size and weight capacities.

Your client's automation process may require product elevation for a number of reasons. Visual inspection, part additions, or using a buffer to accommodate a slower process further down the line are just a few examples where a vertical lift conveyor application may be necessary. But why install a bulky, expensive application when you can accomplish what your clients’ processes need within the lift itself? There are a number of other uses for an enhanced elevator (or vertical transport unit, VTU) on the line that you might not have considered in the past.

Quick conveyor lead times are often a driving factor behind an application engineer’s choice in conveyor system manufacturer. If you’re sick and tired of dealing with seemingly endless lead times, frustratingly long revision processes, and the challenges of a manufacturer who doesn’t put your needs – and those of your client – first, then look no further than Glide-Line. Here’s how you can shorten those lead times.

When choosing the right conveyor for your client’s automation system, lead time can often be a driving factor in selecting a manufacturer. In fact, choosing a conveyor systems manufacturer who can provide a quick conveyor system lead time can often make or break your project.

When you create a model and price a conveyor project to develop a proposed solution for your client, a huge time factor can be the engineering process while you’re in the initial design phase. From preliminary design, to pricing, to changes, to more pricing, each step can take hours or sometimes days when you’re dependent upon a manufacturer’s engineering team for answers.

Customizations to automation conveyor applications can often add months to a lead time. But unless you utilize a configurable flexible conveyor solution, alternatives to conveyor customization can take even longer. The question is, how can a custom conveyor built by somebody else be faster than building one myself?

Throughput is the ultimate measurement of the effectiveness for your client’s manufacturing process. To really wow them with your automated conveyor system design, focus on improving throughput in ways you haven’t yet imagined with flexible conveyor systems.

Modular conveyor systems offer endless possibilities for configurations, particularly when an applications engineer is using Glide-Line’s IMPACT! configurator for the layout. When you’re in need of some inspiration to solve your customer’s challenging process needs, look no further. Here is a collection of unique modular assembly conveyor layouts, pallet conveyor automation systems layouts, and flexible conveyor system layouts we’ve seen benefit from our configurable conveyors.