With record unemployment, it is tough to find qualified workers to fill many jobs. This includes material tending for CNC operations. So, manufacturers are left in a crunch. Do they pay higher wages to retain qualified, reliable workers? Or do they keep wages constant, but put up with decreased productivity and efficiency?

When it comes to smooth handling, traditional conveyor transportation leaves a lot to be desired. This is especially the case when moving and accumulating product between assembly stations. A stop in the line can easily cause pallets to bang into each other, leading to product damage. Many are searching for a better solution, so we introduced Glide-Line’s Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor. With Glide-Line’s Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor solution, “hard stops” are a thing of the past. With products moving smoothly from station to station, partially and fully-assembled products can be handled without the risk of product damage.

Glide-Line offers a wide variety of Pallet Stop mechanisms to suit the traffic handling demands of your clients’ applications. We offer three types:

Pallet accumulation leads to rough product handling that can compromise the integrity and quality of products being accumulated as well as lead to additional wear and tear. Accumulation is a necessary part of many asynchronous assembly processes. But when pallets bang into each other, get dislodged in their fixtures, or otherwise get damaged on the conveyor line, you need to find a solution!

Glide-Line is known for creating innovative automated conveyor solutions for clients and integrators facing unique challenges. With most other conveyor manufacturers, custom-built solutions would be offered for many of our projects, costing the customer a ton of money and time. Glide-Line solutions are different. Our conveyors and components are purposely flexible, so even new, custom solutions are built at significantly less cost and the lead time is much faster than a typical custom solution.

Efficiency. Simplicity. Optimization. To us, these aren’t just buzzwords! With the Glide-Line's Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor, we have built a solution that minimizes cost/effort and maximizes results. How? By tackling common conveyor pain points head on. Through the use of well-designed control functions, the Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor line attacks multiple issues at the source. Read on to learn how the Zero Contact Zoned Conveyor control functions minimize effort and maximize results!

The Glide-Line 360 solution feels a bit like the internet. For a person who has never used the internet, it’s very hard to describe what it is; the internet cannot be defined or boxed very easily. But once that person has a chance to experience the vast, configurable tool that is the worldwide web, it’s so useful and impactful they can’t imagine life without it after that.

Our Standard Lift and Locate is a device designed to be used to lift a workpiece pallet off the conveyor to be worked on in a fully automatic or manual station where precision work is needed.

Your clients want you to build a cost-effective system customized to their needs. Unfortunately, end users may only consider the upfront costs when analyzing this expense.

Multi-functional conveyor devices make automation processes more efficient while saving clients money. The Lift Transfer Unit is a great example of this. Not only does it fulfill the traditional design to transfer a pallet or plate to a transfer conveyor or a spur line at a right angle, but it’s also highly configurable, functional, and controllable. Here’s how.