Simplify Maintenance and Eliminate Unscheduled Downtime with AIM Glide
Gentle, Hygienic Automation for Bakery
- Spotlight
- April 21, 2025
Intralox’s Active Integrated Motion (AIM) Glide is a gentle, hygienic automation solution that eliminates unscheduled downtime and jams while requiring 75% less maintenance and 50% less cleaning time than metal slat switches. Easy to clean and operationally safe, the AIM Glide doesn’t need lubrication and eliminates rework labor to clear jams and realign your product.
Benefits
Reliable, Zero-jam Automation
- Decreases total maintenance by 75%
- Offers zero unscheduled downtime
- Gently handles your products, maintaining their orientation
Hygienic, Food-safe Design
- Halves cleaning time
- Requires no lubrication
Simplified Modular Structure
- Removes the need for guarding
- Makes less noise than mechanical arms
- Requires fewer moving parts and less engineering time
Field Success
North American Bakery Food Producer
By replacing a single metal slat switch with AIM Glide, one bakery plant eliminated unscheduled downtime and the need for lubrication and replacement parts. The Intralox solution reduced maintenance to 10 minutes weekly, saving 50 labor hours annually—and lowered their total cost of ownership by more than $16,000. To date, they’ve moved more than 23 million lb (10.4 million kg) of product across the switch with zero downtime.
See how AIM Glide helped another bakery overcome their slat switch troubles