- 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
Analysis and Testing
JLS Automation
- 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
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
CHL Systems
- 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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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
Hart Mechanical
BorgWarner
Penn State
- 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
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
