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Trevor Price

Trevor Price is the Lead Application Engineer for Glide-Line. He has began his career here straight out of college from Widener University. Being a former collegate football athlete, Trevor embodies all of the characteristics of being a leader and embracing the teamwork mentality. In his personal life, he enjoys spending time with his dog, family, and the outdoors.

Improve Tray Handling Within Your Assembly Automation Process With the Right Conveyor

on Monday, July 10, 2023 By | Trevor Price | 0 Comments | Solutions for Applications Engineers Conveyor System Designs Flexible Conveyor Solutions

If your plant uses trays to convey parts or products, you may feel like tray handling within your assembly automation process could use some improvements. Trays, products, and parts are all susceptible to damage on the wrong conveying system. Prevent parts damage and product loss with these tips for improving tray handling at your facility.

Convey Trays In & Out of Work Cells With a Better Accumulation Strategy

on Thursday, June 15, 2023 By | Trevor Price | 0 Comments | Flexible Conveyor Solutions Direct Product Handling

Many automation processes require accumulation strategies to ensure the optimal conveying of products with an atypical movement on the line. It is especially useful for facilities that accumulate products on totes or trays. Often, these are fragile products that require sensitive handling.

3 Improvements to Transporting Trays On & Off The Conveyor Line

on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 By | Trevor Price | 0 Comments | Solutions for Applications Engineers Flexible Conveyor Solutions Wide Products Direct Product Handling

Zero Contact Zoned Conveyors are ideal when transporting fragile and sterile products in totes while eliminating the need for pneumatic stops. These zoned conveying systems keep products on individual pallets, totes or trays as they move across the line.

Material Handling Conveyor Solutions for Aerospace Parts

on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 By | Trevor Price | 1 Comment | Conveyor System Designs Wide Products Direct Product Handling

Sometimes working with wider products that are common in the aerospace industry, application engineers may need to get creative with a conveying system design that fits within the floor layout and various constraints. Additionally, material handling systems that convey aerospace products have other special considerations. They require smooth starts and dampened stops – and of course requirements to transfer and present products at different stations for efficient assembly operations.

Configurable Conveyor Technology Software That Dynamically Updates As You Design

on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 By | Trevor Price | 0 Comments | Solutions for Applications Engineers Reduce Conveyor Lead Time Flexible Conveyor Solutions Configurable Conveyor Technology

The NORMAL Design Technology Accurate CAD blocks are obviously required in the world of application design. As you’re developing an automated assembly system layout, estimate, proposal, and final design, accuracy could be hindered as conveyor system blocks or configurators that lack flexibility, innovation, or generally slow you down.

VTU Conveyor Solutions to Challenges Design Engineers Have to Solve Every Day

on Monday, June 29, 2020 By | Trevor Price | 1 Comment | Flexible Conveyor Solutions Vertical Transport Conveyors

In the world of conveyor systems, VTUs, or vertical transport units, go by many different names: elevator, lift, and vertical reciprocating conveyor just to name a few. No matter what you call it, a design engineer’s goal in using a VTU is usually fairly commonplace: lift a section of the conveyor, and the product on it, from one level to another. But...

How VTUs Solve Unique Challenges in Conveyor Automation System Design

on Thursday, May 28, 2020 By | Trevor Price | 0 Comments | Solutions for Applications Engineers Conveyor System Designs Flexible Conveyor Solutions Vertical Transport Conveyors Lift and Rotate Applications

Glide-Line offers several vertical lift conveyor application options. These VTUs can be applied to solve unique challenges in your conveyor automation system design. For instance, you can reduce floor space for your conveyor system, utilize the precision aspect of our VTU in interesting concepts, and increase automation system throughput with these vertical lift conveyor applications. And, at Glide-Line, these VTUs are part of our standard product offering of automated conveyor solutions.