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How to Customize Multi-Strand Conveyors & Easily Calculate the Cost of Your Conveyor System

on Tuesday, November 21, 2017 By | Ron Schwar | 2 Comments | Configurable Conveyor Technology
Multi-strand (usually twin strand pallet-based) conveyors continue to be a cornerstone in today’s assembly automation conveyor systems. But many manufacturers have slowed or even stopped innovations to these popular tools, assuming that applications engineers will conform their designs to the existing production conveyor systems, rather than looking for better solutions that continue to evolve with today’s customer products and processes.
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3 Surprising Ways to WOW Your Customer with Assembly Automation Production Conveyor System Designs

on Thursday, November 16, 2017 By | Ron Schwar | 0 Comments | Flexible Conveyor Solutions Configurable Conveyor Technology
Presenting your engineered designs to a client can be an exciting conclusion to weeks of time-intensive work, painstaking CAD drawings, and hours of engineering equations. But when you’re stuck using only existing systems in all areas of pallet conveyors, powered belt conveyors, or multiple strand conveyors, limited customization and flexibility can get in the way of you doing your best work.
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5 Common Issues To Avoid With Custom Conveyor Designs

on Thursday, November 9, 2017 By | Ron Schwar | 1 Comment | Conveyor System Designs Configurable Conveyor Technology
Customization can give any conveyor automation integrator’s customer the heeby-jeebies. Visions of out-of-control costs, longer-than-normal delivery times, and endless back-and-forth design revisions with integrators and suppliers are enough to make them avoid necessary upgrades for as long as possible rather than take on the project.
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How to Cut Your Multi-Strand Conveyor System Delivery Time in Half

on Monday, November 6, 2017 By | Kevin Mauger | 0 Comments | Reduce Conveyor Lead Time Configurable Conveyor Technology
The most accurate layouts and pricing typically come from a successful relationship between you and your salesperson with your current conveyor system provider. But time between pricing and revision exercises can slow down the process and get in the way of your delivering your proposal to your customer.
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8 Ingenious Modular Conveyor Configuration Tips for Automation System Integrators

Conveyor design isn’t always the most exciting part of your automation system. But building an advanced, modular conveyor system can be a way for your system to showcase innovation and creative solutions in your production conveyor systems. Here are eight proven tips and creative ideas to keep in mind when engineering your next automated conveyor system.
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Glide-Line’s IMPACT! featured in national Solidworks Case Study!

on Monday, July 24, 2017 By | Chris Round | 11 Comments | Configurable Conveyor Technology
Glide-Line’s powerful pricing, application, and model development software (IMPACT!) is so unique that Solidworks created a Case Study! Find out what makes IMPACT! different from every other configurator on the market by following THIS LINK.
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Introducing IMPACT Interactive Configuration System

on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 By | Chris Round | 0 Comments | Configurable Conveyor Technology
“Powerful Tool to Optimize Designs.” – DeWayne Merritt, Tool Design Engineer, Autoliv
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Innovating a New Approach to Conveyor Design

on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 By | Craig Newberry | 0 Comments | Configurable Conveyor Technology
Unable to get the conveyors it needed to address customer demands, a system integrator sets out to address the problem on its own and ends up creating not only a new conveyor product, but a different way of designing and manufacturing conveyor lines.
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Making an IMPACT on conveyor design

on Friday, March 20, 2015 By | Chris Round | 0 Comments | Configurable Conveyor Technology
Assembly equipment, such as conveyors and workstations, presents a particularly difficult challenge to configure. Designs must accommodate existing building layout and structural elements, while providing an ergonomic workspace for operators, and of course, meeting the needs of the manufacturing or assembly process.
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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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