Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) can be a fantastic and flexible way to automate a facility. But did you know that incorporating conveyors into your next AMR system design further leverages their benefits? In this eBook, we walk you through Glide-Line’s latest innovation: conveyor toppers built specifically for AMRs. We go through the many variables integrators are looking for in an effective, cost-efficient AMR conveyor design: A lightweight, yet powerful design that maximizes payload and minimizes battery usage The importance of high flexibility and configurability—and how Glide-Line can meet that demand. The importance of durability and dependability—and what Glide-Line has to offer (DC-driven solution that fits well in an existing conveyor environment). How we can help you build the right client-specific AMR conveyor topper for your next project

What is an unpredictably long lead time costing you and your customers? It’s time to take back control. Learn about: updated design technology manufacturing processes dedicated to shortening lead times conveyor technology that enables shorter delivery & assembly times Thankfully, there’s a better way - and it solves all the challenges above, including cost concerns. In this ebook, we’ll walk you through our solutions for specific applications that are uniquely-shaped, “prohibitively” large and wide (according to our competitors), and that often pose problems for automation because they require gentle handling.

Download our free ebook today: The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Flexible Automation Conveyor Application Solution. Conveyor flexibility in an automation application is the freedom to modify or configure an existing standard product instead of customizing a solution from scratch. Flexible solutions will take less time to engineer, manufacture and assemble, are less costly, and can often accomplish your goal in a more efficient manner without compromising the design. Advanced pallet-based & direct product handling conveyors, when you’re partnering with an expert in flexible conveyor designs like Glide-Line, can be designed and configured to handle fragile precision products as well as sturdy, robust products. Our goal in this ebook is to present innovative conveyor options capable of meeting or exceeding your expectations of a conveyor alternative or of a traditional conveyor system. Think outside the traditional belt when it comes to your designs, space, functionality, and capabilities for your automation conveyor application solutions with our ultimate guide.

Accumulation is a necessary part of many processes, but if it damages the product or jeopardizes previous assembly or other operations, it’s a detriment to the overall production and quality - not to mention the economic impact of scrap, rework and stopped production. A better alternative we discuss in this whitepaper is a Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor. In this whitepaper, you will learn about: Common drawbacks of product accumulation The traditional solution for product accumulation An alternative solution: Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor How the Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor works

So you have a manufacturing process that produces large assemblies. You need a conveyor system that will increase your throughput and enable you to optimize the orientation, access, and presentation of your products. And to automate your material handling, you need to have innovative devices and solutions that integrate seamlessly with your existing setup.

Manufacturers need to solve complex operational and assembly challenges that require top or bottom exposure of products while conveying, turning, lifting, and placing items at multiple workstations. In some cases, using a traditional conveyor system may leave you feeling as if you’re Phil Dunphy holding up a hula-hoop with a model airplane coming right at you.

To keep up with a fast-changing world, we need technologies that can adapt almost as quickly as we do. For manufacturers of appliances, the ability to rotate flat panels while conveying may only be one part of the process – but it makes life a lot easier when you’re assembling complex products.

Fabricators and manufacturers of sheet metal assemblies who want to increase production efficiency and throughput can benefit from an integrated “direct product handling” conveyor system (we use the term “direct” to indicate that it is not on a pallet). For each process stage, special considerations may apply that require optimum orientation, presentation, and access while indexing products on the conveying line.

In situations that require handling products directly on the production line, conveying and lifting items without a pallet may require special consideration. Engineers who build and manufacture awkwardly shaped products often have challenges when automating certain processes. In these situations, it becomes costly to customize equipment to suit special use cases.

The life of an application engineer is never boring. Along with all the daily challenges that come with keeping the production line running, engineers searching for suitable solutions that can automate assembly operations when manufacturing complex products is just as entertaining as watching Tommy Boy – if you’re into that kind of thing.