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 it comes to planning your automated conveyor systems, lead time can be an important factor when designing your system around a manufacturer. Don’t let fear of long lead times keep you from your best, most innovative work. Instead, choose a partner who can support and elevate your designs with both flexible solutions and quick conveyor lead times.

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.

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.

Choosing a conveyor system manufacturer is no simple task, particularly when you’re under a deadline. This guide with questions to ask, along with common answers from both Glide-Line and our competitors, can help you in your decision-making process as you select a partner. Jump to these sections:

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.

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?

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.

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.

Despite the inherent advantages of pallet assembly conveyors, traditional conveying methods have one large negative, particularly when it comes to fragile products: backpressure. In this blog, we’ll explore an innovative way to avoid the issue of backpressure in pallet assembly conveyor systems.