Metal fabricators need material handling conveyor systems that enable them to cut, shape, and mold products accurately at different stages in the process. Conveying products directly may be one of the biggest challenges for fabricators and manufacturers concerned about the efficient handling and manipulation of wider products.
By configuring a flexible design for your product handling and conveyor design, metal fabricators can achieve new efficiencies and reduce manufacturing bottlenecks.
Metal fabricators are facing a host of challenges right now. Supply chains are strained, and sweeping economic shutdowns created intermittent disruptions that required a new level of agility just to stay afloat.
Some of the major challenges fabricators faced during COVID-19 shutdowns were:
To become more resilient in the future, fabricators will likely look for greater flexibility from conveyor system manufacturers to create tailored, efficient and flexible designs to accommodate unique challenges when conveying wide products. At Glide-Line, we address tough product handling challenges when it comes to wide or long product handling, atypical movement (read: unique movements nobody else wants to do!) & smooth, no-contact motion control. While these may seem like custom designs, they are standard to us.
Flexibility is one of the key requirements when investing in a new material handling solution for your factory. With so much “on-the-line”, you’ll need a highly configurable system that accommodates everything from vertical conveying to zone-controlled, zero contact product to product manipulation.
A multi-strand system can support weights of up to 250 pounds per strand during transport. For metal fabrication, the advantages of a timing-belt driven, easily expandable system capable of conveying appliances, wide metal products, or refrigerator panels (if need be) are self-evident.
A multi-strand conveyor system gives you:
Glide-Line’s range of products provides an economical alternative that can handle a variety of situations, with any kind of manipulation you may require in between different stations. When you need additional width, you can just include another extrusion / belt to accommodate your wide product, while adding any number of accessories between sections using our highly configurable design.
We can shuffle around interferences, customize lift transfers (from wide-edge leading, to narrow-edge leading, and again back to wide-edge leading), and you can configure your system on our IMPACT! software (using SolidWorks). Glide-Line provides complete, precise, and timely material handling solutions for fabricators in every industry.
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