INDUSTRY FOCUS

Food & Beverage

Over 30 Years of Expertise in

Automation for Food & Beverage Production

MWES automates food processing and packaging operations across a wide range of food industry segments. Whether it is handling blocks of cheese, packaging bags of produce, saving labor for pet food manufacturers, cutting and portioning products, or collating and arranging fragile foods for packaging MWES understands how to implement automation in the demanding environments of food and beverage production.

MWES systems do more than free up labor. Our precision and repeatability help ensure consistent product quality and reduce scrap or waste. User-friendly design makes operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining the equipment easy, giving you maximum production availability. Designed with the future in mind, MWES equipment can easily adapt to handle different product sizes, packaging formats, and line layouts. To make sure your equipment is aligned with your Food Safety Plan, MWES matches the level of hygienic design with the risks and preventive controls you have identified.

Whether you need to automate individual processes or entire production lines MWES can help. Here is a sample of our capabilities:

Automation Applications

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Food & Beverage Automation expertise

Cheese Wrapping Infeed

A cheese converter came to MWES with a challenge. They needed to inspect cut blocks of cheese, verify which ones were acceptable, and precisely place them onto the packaging film aligned with the pre-printed label locations. But the process could not leave any visible marks of the product. MWES delivered a vision-guided system that gently handled the delicate products without damage and increased overall line throughput.

Case Packing Automation

When a fast-growing pet food manufacturer needed help packing their bags into RSC cases MWES was there with a solution. Capable of handling a wide range of case and bag sizes, the MWES equipment allowed them to re-direct labor to other areas while increasing throughput.

Cheese Cubing Automation

MWES provided our customer with several new automated cheese cubing machines that met all food safety standards, including complete machine assembly and electrical control integration. All the potential food surface areas were constructed and finished to current USDA and WDA standards, using all food-grade materials.

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Food Handling Projects by MWES

Robotic Food Product Case Packing Machine

Robotic Food Product Case Packing Machine

MWES provided this firm with an automatic case-packing machine that would robotically pack...
Automated Case Packing Machine

Automated Case Packing Machine

MWES was contracted to build an automated system to case pack bags of produce into boxes, at...
Automated Cheese Cubing Machine

Automated Cheese Cubing Machine

A leading national cheese supplier had existing machines for cutting slabs of cheese into cubes...
Robotic Case Depalletizing System

Robotic Case Depalletizing System

MWES provided a robotic depalletizing system for Widmer Brothers Brewing. The initial bottle...
Robotic Case & Tray Palletizer

Robotic Case & Tray Palletizer

With quality manual labor getting increasingly hard to come by and product demand increasing,...
Cheese Stick Slicing & Stacking Conveyor System

Cheese Stick Slicing & Stacking Conveyor System

MWES designed and built a cheese bagging system that would convey sheets of cheese sticks through...
Cheese Rotation & Rejection Machine

Cheese Rotation & Rejection Machine

MWES provided a cheese producer with a robotically automated positioning and rejection machine...
Robotic Case Packing Machine

Robotic Case Packing Machine

MWES provided this firm with a robotic case-packing machine that would pack various sizes of...
Robotic Case Packing & Palletizing Automation System

Robotic Case Packing & Palletizing Automation System

MWES provided a biosolutions firm with a robotic automation cell for case packing and palletizing...