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Plant Layout and Field Work

JLS Automation

10 write-ups

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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Title: Systems Engineering at JLS Automation
Description: Defining what robotic packaging machines need to do, then carrying them through design, commissioning, and installation across three disciplines.

Industry: Food packaging
Dwg no.: PS-2026-600
Year: 2021

CHL Systems

11 write-ups

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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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: 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

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Title: Mechanical Design Engineering at CHL Systems
Description: Twenty custom equipment projects across eight industries in three years, designed alongside the shop that built them.

Industry: Food, pharmaceutical, and agricultural processing
Dwg no.: PS-2026-500
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

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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

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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

Hart Mechanical

2 write-ups

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

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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

Personal

1 write-up

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