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Frontload Your Inventory with Automation: A Strategic Approach to Tariff Preparation
Frontloading inventory is a strategy that can lessen tariffs’ damage to your business. Tariffs can significantly impact a business’s supply chain, leading to increased costs, disrupted production schedules, and strained supplier relationships. Companies should proactively manage inventory to reduce risks and ensure enough stock for potential tariff increases. This is
Join Us at One of Five Exciting Tradeshows This Year
Midwest Engineered Systems will showcase its best-in-class automation solutions at five tradeshows in 2025. Our industry and automation experts will be on hand to discuss with you our solutions to any of the manufacturing challenges you’re facing at the Converters Expos, Fabtech, CheeseCon and WIMTS. These five shows represent our
Collaborative Robots for Food Industry Applications
Collaborative Robots Revolutionizing Food Manufacturing Collaborative robots (cobots) are transforming the food industry by offering innovative solutions to labor shortages, production flexibility, and safety challenges. As the fastest-growing segment of industrial robotics, cobots are designed to work alongside humans, boosting efficiency while maintaining safe and productive workflows. At
How Robotic Automation is Transforming the Logistics Industry
The logistics industry and warehousing face unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. These challenges include the growing demand for e-commerce, rising labor costs and labor shortages, a potential second round of hyperinflation, and the need for long-term sustainability. To overcome these challenges, many businesses that specialize in logistics and warehousing
How Robotic Automation Can Reduce the Looming Impact of the Second Wave of Inflation
As the global economy continues to navigate the uncertainties of the post-pandemic era, concerns about a second wave of inflation are mounting. A second wave will significantly impact manufacturers, increasing production costs and squeezing profit margins. An innovative solution that will help mitigate the effects of inflation is the adoption
Using Robots to Enhance Food Safety
On average about 48 million people get sick each year from foodborne diseases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is a significant public health burden that can be prevented. To bring those numbers down, maintaining the highest standards of safety and hygiene in
Layer Picking Automation for Fulfillment Centers
Midwest Engineered Systems solved a palletizing problem for a refrigerated food logistics company. Our customer was using several workers to manually separate cases of products from pallets to fill orders in a refrigerated environment. They were continually plagued by staffing shortages, worker safety, accuracy and inconsistent throughput. MWES provided a
MWES Introduces a Dedicated Division Providing Automation for the Food & Beverage Sector
In keeping with our ongoing growth, Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. (MWES) has welcomed Chuck Sena as our new Food Industry Business Unit Manager. With over 30 years of experience in packaging and process automation for the food and beverage sector, Chuck brings a wealth of knowledge to the team. Peter
Enhancing Data Center Construction with Robotic Welding Solutions
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, data centers are the backbone of global information storage and processing. The construction of these facilities demands precision, efficiency, and scalability. Robotic welding has emerged as a pivotal technology in meeting these demands, offering unparalleled advantages in the assembly of data center infrastructures. The
White Paper: Grow Your Process with Cobot Integration Amid Ongoing Labor Shortages
To solve labor the problems associated with the skilled labor shortage, MWES has developed several solutions that can augment and improve throughput.