The Problem   A large battery manufacturer needed a robotic palletizing system to automate the machine-to-pallet transfer of stacks of metallic plates, a process duplicated across multiple facilities. The manual process created ergonomic and safety concerns due...

Implementing functional safety upgrades across a global aluminum manufacturing operation. A global aluminum extrusion manufacturer set out to evaluate and improve machine safety across more than 20 facilities. The initiative focused on identifying risks and...

Automating aerospace drilling and cutting to improve throughput, precision, and safety. Meggitt Polymers & Composites needed to significantly increase production. The existing drilling and cutting process was labor-intensive, creating challenges with accuracy,...

Leading process controls integration for a greenfield sweet potato processing facility.   Building an Award Winning Plant with Process Controls As consumer demand for frozen sweet potato fries grew, a food manufacturer invested in a greenfield processing facility...

Using OnGuard Collision Avoidance to protect aircraft while giving painters precise access to the work surface. Painting aircraft requires skilled crews to work quickly and accurately from movable platforms positioned close to the aircraft surface. When limitations in...

Combining machine vision and 3D laser scanning to identify, inspect, and sort variable-sized boxes at up to 60 boxes per minute. Automated packaging lines need to identify, inspect, and route products quickly without slowing production. For this application, Concept...

Replacing outdated manual controls with a user-friendly HMI to improve blending consistency, flexibility, and diagnostics. National Frozen Foods needed to modernize a vegetable blending system that relied on manual dials to control the ratio of vegetables entering...

Using a custom CNC controls retrofit to improve positioning, precision, and efficiency during rocket engine component inspection. Critical rocket engine components require X-ray inspection to verify their integrity and safety. Traditionally, positioning the X-ray...

Using 3D machine vision and robotic automation to improve bag handling, increase throughput, and reduce product loss. For this coffee roaster, the robot moving 150-pound bags of raw coffee beans from pallets to the conveyor had become a weak link in production. The...

Replacing obsolete controls while developing a phased retrofit strategy to reduce risk and protect continuous cheese production. When obsolete controls threatened the long-term reliability of Tillamook Creamery's cheese production equipment, Concept Systems was...