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AS/RS Buffer Systems

AS/RS Buffer Systems: Warehousing on a Whole New Level

Warehouse management is a complex and challenging task that requires efficient and reliable solutions. One of the most innovative and effective solutions is the automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS) buffer system, designed to optimize inventory storage and retrieval, reduce travel time, increase throughput and enhance flexibility.

Warehouse Automation

Frontload Your Inventory with Automation: A Strategic Approach to Tariff Preparation

Frontloading inventory is a strategy that can lessen tariffs’ damage to your business. Tariffs can significantly impact a business’s supply chain, leading to increased costs, disrupted production schedules, and strained supplier relationships. Companies should proactively manage inventory to reduce risks and ensure enough stock for potential tariff increases. This is

Material Handling Automation

How Robotic Automation is Transforming the Logistics Industry

The logistics industry and warehousing face unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. These challenges include the growing demand for e-commerce, rising labor costs and labor shortages, a potential second round of hyperinflation, and the need for long-term sustainability. To overcome these challenges, many businesses that specialize in logistics and warehousing

Palletizing & Depalletizing Automation

Layer Picking Automation for Fulfillment Centers

Midwest Engineered Systems solved a palletizing problem for a refrigerated food logistics company. Our customer was using several workers to manually separate cases of products from pallets to fill orders in a refrigerated environment. They were continually plagued by staffing shortages, worker safety, accuracy and inconsistent throughput. MWES provided a

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Warehouse Automation

AGVs vs AMRs: What’s the difference and which one is right for you?

If you are looking for a way to automate your material handling and transportation tasks, you might have come across two acronyms: AGV and AMR. But what do they mean and how do they differ? Midwest Engineered Systems has decades of experience integrating robots into manufacturing production lines. With that

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Warehouse Automation

Factory Automation with Robotic Production Systems

Midwest Engineered Systems has spent decades improving our customers’ factory automation processes with robotic automation systems. By moving to robotic automation, those firms benefited from having a sizeable return on investment (ROI) and greatly improved throughput in their factory operations, all the while not being burdened by the labor shortages

Palletizing & Depalletizing Automation

Project Spotlight: Automated Palletizing with Robots

Midwest Engineered Systems built a robotic palletizing system that could move over 80 cases per minute. The robotic integration required no tooling changes to accommodate varying case sizes, or to handle the layer slip sheets. This system also utilizes an automated pallet dispenser, and can produce multiple pallet patterns.

Food & Beverage Automation

Robotic Palletizer that Handles a Variety of Product Sizes

Many don’t realize that robot arms can be equipped with an EOAT that is capable of cleanly grabbing multiple products at once. Our custom designed robot gripper made this palletizing process a breeze.

Material Handling Automation

A Deeper Dive into Automated De-Palletizer Performance – Case Study

Based on using one of our turnkey de-palletizer cells, we’ve put together a case study discussing how the system helped a manufacturer reduce a large bottleneck at the front end of their production process. Within the document, we talk about its real world performance and the benefits it brings to producers who are looking to automate material intake processes.