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In addition to having the biggest laugh and smile in the room, Tom brings a passion to the growth of our company that is unmatched. He thrives on helping customers and building long term relationships. Tom is a "go anywhere, go anytime" guy willing to do whatever it takes to help the cause. He has a fantastic family in Cleveland where he lives with his beautiful wife Linda, and is near his children and grandchildren who light up his face, which in turn, lights up the room.

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Rotate Products Smoothly

How to Achieve Multi-Angle, Multi-Stop Rotation Programmability in Your Automation System

Rotating products smoothly and gently in your automation system can be challenging. Inefficient throughput, prohibitive costs, and overly complicated customizations are just a few of the problems integrators face when asked to include product rotation in their designs. Others include:
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4 Outstanding Attributes of Our Configurable Standard Lift & Locate

Our Standard Lift and Locate is a device designed to be used to lift a workpiece pallet off the conveyor to be worked on in a fully automatic or manual station where precision work is needed.
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Four Cost-Saving Functions of the Lift Transfer Unit

on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 By | Tom Churchill | 0 Comments | Flexible Conveyor Solutions Configurable Conveyor Technology
Multi-functional conveyor devices make automation processes more efficient while saving clients money. The Lift Transfer Unit is a great example of this. Not only does it fulfill the traditional design to transfer a pallet or plate to a transfer conveyor or a spur line at a right angle, but it’s also highly configurable, functional, and controllable. Here’s how.
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Four Ways the Electrically Driven VTU Impacts Automation Processes

on Monday, March 25, 2019 By | Tom Churchill | 0 Comments | Flexible Conveyor Solutions Vertical Transport Conveyors
The Electrically Driven VTU, like other vertical transfer units, transfers pallets from one level to another within an automation system. The Electrically Driven VTU is different because it benefits from a vertical servo-driven actuator for positioning. The elevator platform conveyor can also operate in either direction, enabling the VTU to accept and discharge pallets from both sides, and the servo allows multiple stopping positions along the z-axis stroke.
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Work Piece Pallet - love at first sight

8 Reasons Our Clients Love This No-Limit Flexible Workpiece Pallet

Glide-Line’s Workpiece Pallet may sound like a typical conveyor accessory, but it’s anything but typical. Our Workpiece Pallet is a workpiece that can be modified and machined to handle a customer’s fixture or jig configuration.
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Why Your Application Might Need an Open Center Design Conveyor

on Thursday, March 8, 2018 By | Tom Churchill | 0 Comments | Flexible Conveyor Solutions
Medical devices, pharmaceutical devices, wired electronics, and some automobile parts don’t mean much for ordinary consumers. But for an applications engineer, they all create a similar challenge in the manufacturing process: the need for a specialized conveyor during assembly.
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5 Things to Consider with Vertical Transport of Your Product

on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 By | Tom Churchill | 0 Comments | Solutions for Applications Engineers Conveyor System Designs
Vertical transport units, or VTUs, are often the first consideration when you’re building a pallet conveyor automation system with space constraints. While other belt conveyor manufacturers may be able to provide traditional (some may say boring!) VTUs for your automation system, our team urges applications engineers to think outside the norm when it comes to applying VTUs in their modular conveyor systems, starting with asking these five simple questions.
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Glide-Line offers the most versatile multi-strand panel and pallet-handling solution available for the assembly automation industry.

We solve problems that other conveyor systems manufacturers won’t. We developed Glide-Line from the ground up with a few key, driving factors in mind. First, our conveyors had to be robust and reliable. Second, they would be simple – easy to maintain and service. Finally, we insisted on flexible configurability, creating an efficient, hassle-free customer experience. We’ve built the most versatile multi-strand panel and pallet-handling solution available for the assembly automation industry.
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