- Title
Carton Forming and Loading Test Machine
- Description
- A portable, skid-mounted robotic carton cell that doubles as a product test machine and a trade show demo.
- Industry
- Packaging automation (internal)
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-613
- Year
- 2026
Projects
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Skill
Employer
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- Title
Winch-Driven Lifting Boom
- Description
- Redesigning a working, one-off utility vehicle hoist into a drawing package that outside fabricators could quote.
- Industry
- Small-scale agriculture and grounds equipment
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-903
- Year
- 2025
- Title
Snack Stick Collate and Load
- Description
- Eight robotic lines gang-picking twelve meat sticks per cycle into a thermoformer, proven out with a structured reliability study.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-612
- Year
- 2025
- Title
Sausage Collate and Load
- Description
- A robotic cell gang-picking cooked sausage links into a thermoformer, where the hardest problem was getting sticky product to flow.
- Industry
- Cured meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-611
- Year
- 2025
- Title
Snack Stick Cartoner Loader
- Description
- Three linked robotic systems taking meat sticks from a 22-lane thermoformer through cartoning, case packing, and palletizing.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-609
- Year
- 2024
- Title
Combo Pack Cartoner Loader
- Description
- A six-robot vision-picking line loading four combo-pack products into cartons, then cases, then pallets.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-610
- Year
- 2024
- Title
Bulk Beef Patty Case Loader
- Description
- Eight robotic cells on four shared frames loading frozen beef patties, standing on edge, into bulk cases.
- Industry
- Beef processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-608
- Year
- 2024
- Title
Lunchmeat Bag Case Loading
- Description
- Two vision-guided robotic cells case-packing thin, flexible lunchmeat pouches, where getting the grip right took a new tooling approach.
- Industry
- Cured meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-605
- Year
- 2023
- Title
Hot Sauce Bottle Case Loading Robot
- Description
- A robotic case packer for nine bottle and case formats, which I took over mid-project after an acquisition and carried through acceptance.
- Industry
- Specialty food (bottled sauce)
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-607
- Year
- 2023
- Title
Bag Case Loading System
- Description
- Vision-guided robotic cells case-packing more than thirty bagged frozen food recipes across three lines, with logic to protect an upstream freezer.
- Industry
- Frozen and refrigerated food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-606
- Year
- 2023
- Title
Frozen Chicken Bag Case Loading
- Description
- Two dual-head robotic cells packing about twenty bag recipes into cases, with a shared vacuum system built for the whole line.
- Industry
- Frozen meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-604
- Year
- 2022
- Title
Cookie Tub Case Loading with Case Erecting
- Description
- A full secondary packaging line for cookie dough tubs, from case erecting through robotic packing, sealing, and palletizing.
- Industry
- Snack food (bakery)
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-602
- Year
- 2022
- Title
Beef Stick Thermoformer and Cartoner Loader
- Description
- Twelve delta robots and an X-ray taking loose beef sticks into a thermoformer and on to a cartoner, at up to about 900 pieces per minute.
- Industry
- Cured meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-603
- Year
- 2022
- Title
Meat Tray Bagging System
- Description
- A vision-guided robot arranging wrapped meat trays into the multi-tray patterns a vacuum bagger needs, across about fifteen SKUs.
- Industry
- Raw meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-601
- Year
- 2021
- Title
CIM-Powered Belt Sander
- Description
- A belt sander designed around surplus robotics motors, and a cost analysis that convinced me not to build it.
- Industry
- Shop tools
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-902
- Year
- 2021
- Title
Chip Processing Line Relocation
- Description
- Turning a chip line move into a redesign, with a divert chute that lets any line feed either type of slicer.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-520
- Year
- 2021
- Title
Yogurt Tub Conveyance System
- Description
- Dairy conveyance with a fail-safe roller gate that lifts on a fire alarm so the fire door can close.
- Industry
- Dairy
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-519
- Year
- 2020
No photo
- Title
Tank Access Platform
- Description
- An access platform for a process tank in a room with under four feet of headroom, designed for a former employer who asked me back.
- Industry
- Industrial processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-405
- Year
- 2020
- Title
Cooker and Chiller Discharge Conveyors
- Description
- Two pet food transfer conveyors that pin into either of two configurations and strip down quickly for washdown.
- Industry
- Pet food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-516
- Year
- 2020
- Title
Bottle Conveyance Line
- Description
- A pharmaceutical bottle line with pivoting sections to keep the plant passable and formed Lexan covers to keep open bottles clean.
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-518
- Year
- 2020
- Title
Bag Singulation and Pacing Conveyance
- Description
- Merging two lanes of filled pet food bags into one evenly spaced stream for a check-weigher and X-ray, using only belt speeds.
- Industry
- Pet food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-517
- Year
- 2020
No photo
- Title
Scale and Bagger Loader Platform
- Description
- An elevated, bolt-together platform for a multihead weigher, designed to fit through the building's doorway in pieces.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-511
- Year
- 2019
- Title
Induction Sealer Line Integration
- Description
- Adding rotary accumulation around an existing corner of a pharmaceutical line so short stoppages stop shutting down the whole line.
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-513
- Year
- 2019
- Title
Incline Meat Auger Conveyor
- Description
- An inclined screw conveyor chosen over a belt because raw meat slides back down steep belts and screws are easier to clean.
- Industry
- Raw meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-510
- Year
- 2019
- Title
Fat Percentage Blending System
- Description
- A ground beef line that recirculates fat-rich trim and blends two streams to run just under the regulated fat limit.
- Industry
- Raw meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-514
- Year
- 2019
- Title
Confectionery Pilot Line Conveyor
- Description
- A nearly hundred foot marshmallow pilot line conveyor with depositors and a sugar bed, designed into a space still under construction.
- Industry
- Confectionery
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-512
- Year
- 2019
No photo
- Title
Chocolate Bar Case Unloading Concept
- Description
- A quoted concept that inverts full cases of chocolate bars and releases them onto a chute, instead of picking bars out one at a time.
- Industry
- Confectionery
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-515
- Year
- 2019
No photo
- Title
Steam Cooker Outfeed Slicer
- Description
- A four-bar linkage guard that folds out of the way so a 150 lb knife assembly can be lifted safely for sharpening.
- Industry
- Pet food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-503
- Year
- 2018
No photo
- Title
Rail Car Fall Protection Upgrade
- Description
- An engineered 54 foot horizontal lifeline over a rail car cleaning area, replacing a safety line nobody could vouch for.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-506
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Pharmaceutical Bottle Lifter
- Description
- A sanitary clamp and lift bar that let a machine lift heavy, awkward bottles of liquid so operators no longer had to.
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-509
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Medical Device Sterilizing Line
- Description
- A thirteen-station heavy pallet line through explosive-atmosphere sterilizing chambers, which I took over mid-project and commissioned.
- Industry
- Medical devices
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-502
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Frozen Block Separator
- Description
- A hydraulic machine that replaced a jackhammer job nobody could keep staffed, and went on to become a standard CHL product.
- Industry
- Pet food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-505
- Year
- 2018
No photo
- Title
Dumper Guarding Safety Upgrade
- Description
- Three layers of safeguarding, including a mechanical locking pin, around a nearly one ton hydraulic dumper in a raw meat plant.
- Industry
- Raw meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-501
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Corn Conveyance and Distribution System
- Description
- An overhead conveyor loop that carries corn over a full plant floor and drops it to sixteen stations below.
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-508
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Chocolate Pump and Separator Skid
- Description
- A self-contained, jacketed skid on casters that screens unrefined grains out of warm chocolate.
- Industry
- Snack food
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-507
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Adjustable Chub Clamping System
- Description
- A continuously adjustable, dial-set clamp retrofit that let a single-product meat line run several chub diameters.
- Industry
- Raw meat
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-504
- Year
- 2018
- Title
Rooftop Refrigeration Skid Enclosure
- Description
- A rooftop equipment enclosure whose wind and snow analysis caught a racking collapse before it was ever built.
- Industry
- Industrial refrigeration
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-404
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Dry Mixer Counterbalance Lid
- Description
- A replacement mixer lid that always wants to close, solving a fall hazard, a dust problem, and loading access at once.
- Industry
- Industrial processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-403
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Centrifuge Piping System
- Description
- A valve and instrument manifold on its own stand, piped into a customer's centrifuge.
- Industry
- Industrial processing
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-402
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Arsenic Removal Filtration Skid
- Description
- A stainless skid and piping package that turned a customer's filter vessels, pumps, and valves into one transportable water treatment unit.
- Industry
- Water treatment
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-401
- Year
- 2017
- Title
Aquaponic Farm Filter and Solar Charger, Eswatini
- Description
- New solids-separating filters for a small aquaponic farm's systems, built from hardware store parts, plus a more efficient solar charging setup.
- Industry
- Small-scale agriculture
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-901
- Year
- 2017
- Title
UAV-Mounted Meteorological Data Acquisition
- Description
- A senior capstone replacing single-use weather balloon instruments with a recoverable sensor package on a quadcopter.
- Industry
- Atmospheric research
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-703
- Year
- 2016
- Title
3-D Printed Rocket
- Description
- A SolidWorks class final project that flew the highest in the class, and left time to help classmates with theirs.
- Industry
- Education
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-702
- Year
- 2016
- Title
Drill to Vacuum Conversion
- Description
- A class project that turned a power drill into a vacuum by designing the whole flow path, and picked up twice as much as the next team.
- Industry
- Consumer products
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-701
- Year
- 2015
- Title
FIRST Robotics Mentorship
- Description
- Fifteen years mentoring high school robotics teams in engineering, design, and strategy, after four years as a student on one.
- Industry
- STEM education
- Dwg no.
- PS-2026-801
- Year
- 2007
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