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Sanitary and Hygienic Design

JLS Automation

11 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: 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: 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: 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

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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

14 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

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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: 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: 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

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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

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