Manufacturing Automation Case Studies

Customer Requirement Our plastic injection-molded parts manufacturer needed an automated solution to receive packed cases of product, weigh and scan them, and palletize them according to the product source production line. There are six pallet build locations and one pallet stack and regrip station inside the working envelope of the gantry robot. Additionally, six production…

Customer Requirement MESH Automation provided a gantry palletizing solution for a manufacturing customer, using a vacuum-based end-of-arm tool to automate the pick-up and palletizing of large products, optimizing stack patterns with customized software. The system achieved 95% overall equipment efficiency, offering flexibility and stability across six palletizing positions and six WIP tables. A commercial fertilizer…

Customer Requirement Our customer in the cold storage industry faced challenges in efficiently palletizing food products for blast freezing. Our customer provides cold storage services to local poultry producers. They receive freshly prepared protein in strapped cases that can weigh up to 60 pounds each. These cases are not yet frozen and therefore are often…

Customer Requirement Our customer required an automated system that could receive open top cases from the packing line, palletize cases onto a waiting pallet and then remove the full pallet via automated guided vehicle to a stretch wrapping area. MESH supplied two identical robotic cells. There were three different pallet sizes and patterns. MESH designed…

Customer Requirement Our customer is a manufacturer of molded plastic bottles for the food industry. They added a shipping preparation area where bottles could be palletized, strapped, and wrapped for delivery to their customers. The bottle sizes range from 1-liter containers to 2-gallon containers and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Each bottle…

Customer Requirement Our iron foundry customer needed a solution that would take brake rotors and similar parts and cast, grind, palletize and get them ready for shipment. Each part has a specific pallet pattern; sometimes requiring the rotors to be nested by flipping them ahead of the robot. Each pallet has one rotor type and…