Case Packing Systems

Robotic Case Packing Solutions without the Labor Stoppages

Production efficiency is measured from the total time it takes from start to finish – that means taking into account the time and speed needed to get products ready to ship. With more and more production lines using highly automated systems to turn out products, it’s becoming increasingly important for the packaging portion of the process to see the same throughput benefits that automation provides to the production side.

To bring those automation benefits to the packaging portion of the process, MWES has developed many turn-key case packing solutions that can reduce reliance on using human workers to fill cases. These systems can pack secondary packaging in a variety of case patterns at speeds of up to 180 products per minute. The packed product can be bagged goods, firm goods, or anything that a robot gripper can pick up.

Using machine vision and easily updateable programming, MWES case packers can be quickly changed over for other product configurations. The machines can be up and running in as little as a day and are designed to fit within the space currently used for manual packaging processes.

For more specialized situations, MWES can custom-develop systems to address these operations. We have the wherewithal to provide efficient solutions that increase throughput and quality based on decades of automation experience and dedicated automation engineering staff on hand.

Turn-key Standard Case Packing Solutions

Speed and consistency are key to successful consumer packaged goods product production. Both of these metrics have everything to do with how difficult it is to find and retain a quality workforce that can keep up with the increasing production speeds that automated food processing machines can achieve.

Until now, robotic systems were not the best choice for filling these needs due to food product bag packaging’s inconsistent shapes and orientation. That all changes with MWES’s blend of best-in-class robotic vision systems and high-speed, pick-place robotics. Now, these systems can nearly flawlessly package between 120-160 packages per minute.

The bag pack-out system automates the packaging operations that are typically found in food products like soup mixes, frozen vegetable packaging, dairy and meat products, medical supplies and more. In many industries, these products are picked off a production belt by operators and hand-packed into shipping boxes. This process can be one of the more labor-intensive operations in the production system. But the speeds are usually more than a single operator can handle. As such, this operation can become a production bottleneck and a point where errors could occur.

MWES Standard Case Packing Machines

Fitting in a compact footprint, the MWES standard pack-out system is comprised of either two or three pick-place robots (depending on configuration) encapsulated in its own ridged structure.

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The benefits of standard case packing systems

The MWES-engineered, turn-key pack-out system has several benefits for the consumer products production facility from increasing production speeds to packaging quality and repeatability, to ease of implementation of an automated system.

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Custom-Designed Case Packing Solutions

As a technology and vendor-agnostic provider of automation solutions, MWES can design a case packing system that integrates with previously designed systems and with machines and programming that’s supportable by your current workforce. Further, having the ability to take projects from development and design to construction and installation, MWES is highly experienced in building systems that integrate with current systems and fit in more challenging footprints.

Learn how robotic case packing systems work

While this is just an overview of how the MWES case packing system operates with some of the more standard options involved.

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Why integrate with MWES?

MWES recognizes that not all applications can be automated with off-the-shelf equipment. For custom applications with larger size or weight products or even faster throughput, count on MWES’s over 30 years of automation design, development, building and installation to solve your case packing needs.

If your process still relies on an unstable manual labor workforce and throughput is not consistent, contact us today. Our applications engineers will help guide you through the process and see what case packing system is right for your operation.