Without requiring a conveyor tooling changeover or separate equipment, Glide-Line’s Lift and Rotate Unit is able to smoothly and continuously rotate your pallet precisely or oscillate it between two points with exact accuracy. This can satisfy a number of applications within an integrator’s automation system design. These are some common challenges solved by continuous product rotation on our Lift and Rotate Unit.

An important aspect of automated material handling for many of our integrator clients is the ability to precisely control the motions of each conveyor mechanism. For example, our servo-driven Lift and Rotate Unit is designed to rotate to any angle needed up to 360 degrees. Rotation can be programmed exactly, giving them virtually unlimited control over their device. Whether their goal is visual inspection, etching preparation, winding, or another assembly operation, you’re able to stop the Lift and Rotate at any angle to meet their needs.

Growth for a manufacturer with an automated assembly process can deliver a lot of positive effects on their business. But one downside of growth a manufacturing client will struggle with is floor space. Particularly when it comes to conveyors, the process by which they manufacture their product can take up plenty of space.

Application engineers are often faced with client-based challenges around the assembly of products, space in a production facility, and lead time. Additionally, application engineers sometimes face design struggles when it comes to options available to accomplish the client’s manufacturing needs.

Customizing automated assembly conveyors can be compared to customizing a car. When talking to the dealer, you may have a specific feature in mind. If the dealer says the added feature requires customization, you’ll ask instead what’s standard – and then, see if a standard feature can be tweaked instead.

Your customer’s precision products can often require special handling. After all, they need to ensure proper assembly without damage, scuffing, sticking, or jarring in the conveying process. But specialization in conveyor design could create fear of the dreaded “C” word – customization. Customizations can blow your client’s budget quicker than an Aaron Rodgers injury can derail a Packers season. Instead, consider these five ways Glide-Line’s innovative, flexible conveyor systems help avoid damage to your clients’ precision products.

As you’re building an automation system for your client, spending time to choose a conveyor configurator may be the farthest thing from your mind. But which conveyor software you choose could have lasting effects on your entire conveyor-based assembly automation system, including how much it costs, how long it takes to design and deliver, and even how creative you can be in your solution.

Multi-strand (usually twin strand pallet-based) conveyors continue to be a cornerstone in today’s assembly automation conveyor systems. But many manufacturers have slowed or even stopped innovations to these popular tools, assuming that applications engineers will conform their designs to the existing production conveyor systems, rather than looking for better solutions that continue to evolve with today’s customer products and processes.

Presenting your engineered designs to a client can be an exciting conclusion to weeks of time-intensive work, painstaking CAD drawings, and hours of engineering equations. But when you’re stuck using only existing systems in all areas of pallet conveyors, powered belt conveyors, or multiple strand conveyors, limited customization and flexibility can get in the way of you doing your best work.

Customization can give any conveyor automation integrator’s customer the heeby-jeebies. Visions of out-of-control costs, longer-than-normal delivery times, and endless back-and-forth design revisions with integrators and suppliers are enough to make them avoid necessary upgrades for as long as possible rather than take on the project.