INNOVATION THROUGH AUTOMATION

Food Handling Automation Solutions

Precision Automation from Processing to Packaging

MWES delivers tailored food and beverage automation solutions that streamline everything from ingredient processing to packaging and palletizing. Whether you need a single custom cell or a full production line, our certified integration expertise ensures high performance, food safety compliance, and reliability.

Our food handling automation systems are designed to improve efficiency, hygiene, and throughput across multiple sectors, including dairy, bakery, meal assembly, and high-pressure processing (HPP). From case packing and palletizing to pan and tray handling, meal kitting, and basket loading, we build solutions that reduce labor dependence and deliver consistency.

By optimizing your processing and packaging workflows, MWES helps manufacturers:

  • Increase throughput with precision robotics

  • Ensure product integrity with consistent handling

  • Enhance workplace and food safety compliance

  • Adapt quickly to changing demand with flexible automation

With more than 30 years of expertise in robotic integration and food automation systems, MWES partners with food and beverage manufacturers to deliver automation that drives ROI while meeting strict sanitary standards—without compromise.

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Robotics & Automation in Food Production Environments

As food and beverage manufacturers look at deploying these technologies many considerations impact the effectiveness of the solutions they adopt. In this paper we will discuss some of the issues that food and beverage companies should consider to help ensure successful outcomes when they add automation.

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Food automation Solutions

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...
Robotic Case Packing Cell

Robotic Case Packing Cell

MWES provided a machine to erect the customer’s pre-glued auto-bottom boxes and pack individual p...

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Since 1991

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Team Members

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sq. ft. Facilities

8,000+

Systems Built

12+

Years RIA Robot Experts