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Systems Engineering and Leadership

JLS Automation

14 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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

3 write-ups

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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

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: 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

Hart Mechanical

1 write-up

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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

BorgWarner

1 write-up

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Title: Variable Cam Timing Co-op
Description: A year in automotive product engineering, testing and measuring prototype cam phasers and designing the stations to build and test them.

Industry: Automotive
Dwg no.: PS-2026-300
Year: 2014

Penn State

2 write-ups

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: 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

FIRST Robotics

1 write-up

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