INNOVATION THROUGH AUTOMATION
Recent Projects
Systems that enhanced our customers' operations
In over three decades, Midwest Engineered Systems has designed, built and integrated over 4,000 automation systems. Below is a sampling of those systems and how they impacted our customers.
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Layer Picking System
We provided this customer with an automated layer picking system, equipped with a robot and EOAT, conveyors and pallet system.
Refrigerated Storage Tending
Midwest Engineered Systems provided to our customer an automated layer picking system that consisted of a conveyor and pallet system, AS/RS buffer system and layer picking robot.
Aerial Lift Weldments
Robotic welding cells were provided to our customer, to accommodate a variety of weldments used in aerial lift platforms.
Robotic Case Packing Cell
The customer was utilizing multiple employees in order to manually pack their product. An automated packing station was needed to increase throughput and free up the employees to focus on other…
Robotic Frame Welding
MWES provided a Robotic Frame Welding Cell to our customer, for the final welding of generator base frames. This system included a robot and a 2-sided, interchanging, welding positioner, as well…
Disposable Silverware Napkin Wrapping Automation System
An automation system that wraps cutlery and napkins together quickly and efficiently…
Flexibility and Production Speed with Robotic Vision
A leading manufacturer of picture frames was in need of more flexible manufacturing capability than their current high volume systems could provide…
Skid Steer Welding Automation
The robotic weld cell that MWES provided to our customer is capable of processing both Wacker chassis and load arm sub-assemblies. The system utilizes a large material handling robot to present…
Pressure Vessel Head Welding Cell
This system is designed to install, tack and weld ring sections into the shell section of the Super Jumbo product line. The ring weld cell consists of an MWES designed gantry with multiple servo…
Automated Assembly Line with AGVs
Midwest Engineered Systems has built a complete row unit assembly system for an agriculture equipment…
Concrete Mixer Drum Welding Line
MWES provided this truck manufacturer with automation equipment to robotically weld booster cone sub-assemblies. The sub-assemblies were to be welded using Lincoln weld equipment and positioned…
Skylift 3-Axis Welding Positioner
This project consists of a MWES standard Robotic Welding Positioner and End Effector for our customer’s product.
Bottle & Trigger Assembly Line
MWES provided a trigger and bottle assembly system that automatically filled bottles, sorted and oriented triggers for assembly, and torque triggers to bottles.
Custom Automation Systems
A firm came to Midwest Engineered Systems looking to design a fully automated multi-station rotor assembly machine.
Robotic Furnace Tending Cell
MWES provided this firm a robotic furnace tending cell that robotically loads the furnace with steel shafts…
Robotic Paint Line Tending Cell
MWES designed and built this firm six robot machine tending cells that are fully automated and require minimal human intervention and labor to operate…
Robot Depalletizing and Descrambler Cell
MWES provided this firm with a robotic depalletizing and descrambler cell. The system would receive a pallet load from an infeed conveyor…
Robot Packaging & Palletizing Cell
MWES provided this firm with a robot packaging cell that consists of two robots, a carrier disassembly station, a part bagging station, a flat box infeed fixture…
Spring Assembly Machine
MWES provided this firm a machine that uses a 15in cast aluminum vibratory bowl feeder system for the input seal loading and a Camco six-station dial…
Robotic Stack Handling System
MWES designed and built a stack handling system that would robotically retrieve the product stacks from a receiving conveyor, and then transfer the stacks to a bagging conveyor…
Plasma Cutting Robot Cell Upgrade
MWES designed and build an upgraded automated robot plasma cutting cell that would perform all the cutting operations on the steel base rails…
Robotic Flame Treater System
MWES reprogrammed and switched out a number of components from the old robot rivet cell, and converted it into a flame treating system for the base frame and glove box…
Sanding Line Automation Cell
MWES designed and built a robot automation cell that would take a stack of doors from an infeed conveyor…
Cheese Rotation and Rejection Machine
MWES designed and build an automation system that utilizes both infeed and outfeed conveyors to convey the blocks of cheese, and two FANUC robots to move the cheese between the conveyors…
Flower Pot Edge Rolling Machine
A firm came to MWES looking to improve its plastic blow molded flower pot manufacturing process…
Robotic Press Brake Tending System
A firm came to MWES looking to robotically automate the process of fabricating a wide range of parts from steel sheets with a brake press machine…
Robotic Press Brake Tending
MWES designed a system that replaces manual labor with an ABB IRB 7600-500 with a 7th axis drive module running on a floor track that tends a Bystronic brake press…
Spool Payout Twister with Capstan and Accumulator
MWES provided this firm with a planetary payout twister that consists of three rotary dials that hold ten spools each that feed into a Broomfield 400C coil winding…
Coating-Laminating Line Additions
A firm came to MWES looking to add onto and enhance an existing web handling coating-laminating line with an SSI 90 Slitter…
Outboard Motor Assembly System
MWES provided a firm with AGCs that would navigate a lengthy preexisting motor assembly process, and would have to lift, carry and orientate outboard motors…
3-Phase Transformer Cover Weld Cell
MWES designed and built completely automated robotic weld cell whose purpose is to complete the cover welding on large transformers…
Turn-Key System
Machining steel plates can be a challenging task, but with robotic automation this task can be done quickly and efficiently…
CNC Lathe Automation System
By going with robotic machine tending, this firm eliminated the need for hiring skilled workers and enhancing a process that requires only minimal human interaction to perform…
Automated De-Stacking System
MWES designed and built an automated system that would use a robot with an EOAT gripper to move the plates and slabs off a stack of plates…
Weld Vessel
A firm came to MWES looking to automating a precise and complicated weld process on large scale medical equipment…
Adhesive Tape Line
Producing rolls of adhesive tape quickly is a challenging process and is one not easily done with manual labor….
Automated 3-piece Pipe Weld Cell
Robotically automating a welding process has a great ROI eliminating the need to staff skilled labor to accomplish complicated welding tasks…
Hydraulic Motor Assembly Line
Building a single hydraulic motor production line that can handle the assembly of over a dozen different variations…
Automated Casting Finishing Production Line
This firm chose to move to robotic automation for their casting finishing production line needs…
Roll Handling and Wrapping System
Utilizing a conveyor system and two automated stretch wrapping stations, this challenging process can be done quickly and easily…
Depalletizing and Unloading System with Vision
MWES provided a fully automated robotic depalletizing cell for boxed spray heads that was required to supply part to two lines, convey full or partial pallet loads…
Rotor Assembly Machine
Designed and built a Robotically Loaded Custom Automated System. Customer’s cycle time decreased to one assembled part ever 50 seconds.
Roll Storage & Cutting System of Laminate Rolls
The system had to utilize a robot to navigate a compact racking system to retrieve 62 inch long rolls…
Floortrack Robot Palletizing Cell
The customer needed to palletize multiple pallets with many differing case sizes and styles…
Large Component Precision Assembly System
When there needs to be heavy things accurately positioned inside of even larger, heavier things, robotics becomes the best answer…
Automated Knurling Machine
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided a valve plate knurling machine for a metal fine blanking…
Robotic Truss Welding Cell
MWES designed a robotic weld cell that could handle the truss welding with speed and ease. This automated welding cell consisted of industrial robots…
Trigger & Bottle Assembly System
MWES designed a fully automated system which assembled a bottle within 5 seconds or less…
Robotic Case & Tray Palletizer
With quality manual labor getting increasingly hard to come by and product demand increasing, the customer was looking to move its case and tray palletizing operations to an automated proces…
Flywheel Single-Station Press
Midwest Engineered Systems designed a semi-automated assembly press for individual flywheels to be assembled every…
Robotic Welding & Positioner System
Midwest Engineered Systems built a robotic welding with large positioner system for large part manufacturing…
Medical Cartridge Coating Custom Machine
MWES provided a custom medical syringe and cartridge coating machine for a start-up medical supplies manufacturing company.
Robotic Press Brake Automated Metal Bending
MWES provided a Robotic Brake Press Tending System to automate the metal part bending process of a Bystronics Brake Press for a metal fabricator….
Vacuum Metalizer System Upgrade
MWES provided an upgrade to an aging Vacuum Web Coating Machine for this firm…
Random Bin Picking & Part Loading
Our customer contacted us to build an assembly line for a new product with world class operator ergonomics…
Robotic Bottle Depalletizing System
MWES provided a robotic depalletizing system for Widmer Brothers Brewing. The initial bottle depalletizer was a semi-automatic system…
Robotic Deburring System
MWES built two large automated deburring systems for an engine manufacturer…
Automated Cheese Cubing Machine
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided automated cheese cubing machines that cut slabs of cheese into…
Die Cast Robot Tending Automation
MWES provided a die cast robot tending automation machine for a hardware manufacturer…
Automated Packaging System
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. was contracted to build an automated system to case pack bags of produce…
Dynamic Conveyor Picking
This labor-intensive job was automated with a number of robotic systems to reduce labor injuries, factory noise, and to increase production throughput…
Automated Assembly System
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided an assembly system for an injection molding & prototyping company.
Standard Robotic Palletizer
MWES designed a robotic palletizer with the following capabilities to palletize 80 cases…
Flywheel Multi-Station Custom Press
Midwest Engineered Systems Designed a fully automated multi-station press for flywheel assembly.
Robotic Vial Filling for Increased Speed and Precision
Operations needed to be performed within a clean room environment, as the vials contained medical test..
Pharmaceutical Component Automation Cell
Multi-stage operation automated in a clean room environment offers greater efficiency and safety…
Robotic Chamfer Grind System
MWES engineered an automation system that took advantage of innovative technology that addressed all of the current production issues…
Engine Block Wash Automation
With their current system down to only 60% effectiveness, the customer’s automated engine block wash stag…
Silicone Coating Line System
Midwest Engineered Systems engineered a new machine that took advantage of innovative technologies…
Laminating Line with Automated Packaging
This firm was faced with manufacturing a high volume product from basic raw materials for shipment and point of sale in retail stores…
Robotic Palletizing & Automated Guided Vehicle
MWES built an automated manufacturing process for material handling of 20 cardboard boxes per minute…
Robotic Food Product Case Packing Machine
MWES engineered the case packer machine to use machine vision for locating products as they enter the machine…
Robotic Welding and Milling for High-Speed Handling of Bus Bars
With the hazards associated with welding and the difficulty in finding highly skilled welders a firm looking to automate…
Robotic Painting System Retrofit
A consistent manual painting operation can be a strain on a manual workforce. Not only is the work potentially hazardous to the workers but acquiring enough workers to perform the operation has…
Web Handling Line Drive & Controls Upgrade
MWES proposed a major upgrade of the drive system, motors, the PLC, safety devices, HMI displays and pushbutton controls…
Laser Welding System for Rail Car Panels
MWES provided this firm with a Gudel 6-axis overhead gantry system with a laser welding head, controlled by a KUKA robot controller…
Residential / Commercial Appliance Material Handling
MWES completed an Upscale Residential Commercial Application Material Handling and Test In Motion…
Robotic Automation
Layer Picking System
We provided this customer with an automated layer picking system, equipped with a robot and EOAT, conveyors and pallet system.
Flexibility and Production Speed with Robotic Vision
A leading manufacturer of picture frames was in need of more flexible manufacturing capability than their current high volume systems could provide…
Custom Automation Systems
A firm came to Midwest Engineered Systems looking to design a fully automated multi-station rotor assembly machine.
Robotic Furnace Tending Cell
MWES provided this firm a robotic furnace tending cell that robotically loads the furnace with steel shafts…
Robotic Paint Line Tending Cell
MWES designed and built this firm six robot machine tending cells that are fully automated and require minimal human intervention and labor to operate…
Robotic Stack Handling System
MWES designed and built a stack handling system that would robotically retrieve the product stacks from a receiving conveyor, and then transfer the stacks to a bagging conveyor…
Robotic Flame Treater System
MWES reprogrammed and switched out a number of components from the old robot rivet cell, and converted it into a flame treating system for the base frame and glove box…
Robotic Press Brake Tending System
A firm came to MWES looking to robotically automate the process of fabricating a wide range of parts from steel sheets with a brake press machine…
Robotic Press Brake Tending
MWES designed a system that replaces manual labor with an ABB IRB 7600-500 with a 7th axis drive module running on a floor track that tends a Bystronic brake press…
Robotic Press Brake Automated Metal Bending
MWES provided a Robotic Brake Press Tending System to automate the metal part bending process of a Bystronics Brake Press for a metal fabricator….
Random Bin Picking & Part Loading
Our customer contacted us to build an assembly line for a new product with world class operator ergonomics…
Die Cast Robot Tending Automation
MWES provided a die cast robot tending automation machine for a hardware manufacturer…
Dynamic Conveyor Picking
This labor-intensive job was automated with a number of robotic systems to reduce labor injuries, factory noise, and to increase production throughput…
Robotic Vial Filling for Increased Speed and Precision
Operations needed to be performed within a clean room environment, as the vials contained medical test..
Robotic Palletizing & Automated Guided Vehicle
MWES built an automated manufacturing process for material handling of 20 cardboard boxes per minute…
Robotic Painting System Retrofit
A consistent manual painting operation can be a strain on a manual workforce. Not only is the work potentially hazardous to the workers but acquiring enough workers to perform the operation has…
Assembly & Automation
Automated Assembly Line with AGVs
Midwest Engineered Systems has built a complete row unit assembly system for an agriculture equipment…
Bottle & Trigger Assembly Line
MWES provided a trigger and bottle assembly system that automatically filled bottles, sorted and oriented triggers for assembly, and torque triggers to bottles.
Spring Assembly Machine
MWES provided this firm a machine that uses a 15in cast aluminum vibratory bowl feeder system for the input seal loading and a Camco six-station dial…
Flower Pot Edge Rolling Machine
A firm came to MWES looking to improve its plastic blow molded flower pot manufacturing process…
Outboard Motor Assembly System
MWES provided a firm with AGCs that would navigate a lengthy preexisting motor assembly process, and would have to lift, carry and orientate outboard motors…
Turn-Key System
Machining steel plates can be a challenging task, but with robotic automation this task can be done quickly and efficiently…
Hydraulic Motor Assembly Line
Building a single hydraulic motor production line that can handle the assembly of over a dozen different variations…
Rotor Assembly Machine
Designed and built a Robotically Loaded Custom Automated System. Customer’s cycle time decreased to one assembled part ever 50 seconds.
Large Component Precision Assembly System
When there needs to be heavy things accurately positioned inside of even larger, heavier things, robotics becomes the best answer…
Automated Knurling Machine
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided a valve plate knurling machine for a metal fine blanking…
Trigger & Bottle Assembly System
MWES designed a fully automated system which assembled a bottle within 5 seconds or less…
Medical Cartridge Coating Custom Machine
MWES provided a custom medical syringe and cartridge coating machine for a start-up medical supplies manufacturing company.
Vacuum Metalizer System Upgrade
MWES provided an upgrade to an aging Vacuum Web Coating Machine for this firm…
Automated Cheese Cubing Machine
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided automated cheese cubing machines that cut slabs of cheese into…
Automated Assembly System
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. provided an assembly system for an injection molding & prototyping company.
Pharmaceutical Component Automation Cell
Multi-stage operation automated in a clean room environment offers greater efficiency and safety…
Material Handling
Refrigerated Storage Tending
Midwest Engineered Systems provided to our customer an automated layer picking system that consisted of a conveyor and pallet system, AS/RS buffer system and layer picking robot.
Robotic Case Packing Cell
The customer was utilizing multiple employees in order to manually pack their product. An automated packing station was needed to increase throughput and free up the employees to focus on other…
Disposable Silverware Napkin Wrapping Automation System
An automation system that wraps cutlery and napkins together quickly and efficiently…
Robot Depalletizing and Descrambler Cell
MWES provided this firm with a robotic depalletizing and descrambler cell. The system would receive a pallet load from an infeed conveyor…
Robot Packaging & Palletizing Cell
MWES provided this firm with a robot packaging cell that consists of two robots, a carrier disassembly station, a part bagging station, a flat box infeed fixture…
Cheese Rotation and Rejection Machine
MWES designed and build an automation system that utilizes both infeed and outfeed conveyors to convey the blocks of cheese, and two FANUC robots to move the cheese between the conveyors…
Automated De-Stacking System
MWES designed and built an automated system that would use a robot with an EOAT gripper to move the plates and slabs off a stack of plates…
Depalletizing and Unloading System with Vision
MWES provided a fully automated robotic depalletizing cell for boxed spray heads that was required to supply part to two lines, convey full or partial pallet loads…
Floortrack Robot Palletizing Cell
The customer needed to palletize multiple pallets with many differing case sizes and styles…
Robotic Case & Tray Palletizer
With quality manual labor getting increasingly hard to come by and product demand increasing, the customer was looking to move its case and tray palletizing operations to an automated proces…
Flywheel Single-Station Press
Midwest Engineered Systems designed a semi-automated assembly press for individual flywheels to be assembled every…
Robotic Bottle Depalletizing System
MWES provided a robotic depalletizing system for Widmer Brothers Brewing. The initial bottle depalletizer was a semi-automatic system…
Automated Packaging System
Midwest Engineered Systems Inc. was contracted to build an automated system to case pack bags of produce…
Standard Robotic Palletizer
MWES designed a robotic palletizer with the following capabilities to palletize 80 cases…
Flywheel Multi-Station Custom Press
Midwest Engineered Systems Designed a fully automated multi-station press for flywheel assembly.
Robotic Food Product Case Packing Machine
MWES engineered the case packer machine to use machine vision for locating products as they enter the machine…
Residential / Commercial Appliance Material Handling
MWES completed an Upscale Residential Commercial Application Material Handling and Test In Motion…
Material Removal
Plasma Cutting Robot Cell Upgrade
MWES designed and build an upgraded automated robot plasma cutting cell that would perform all the cutting operations on the steel base rails…
Sanding Line Automation Cell
MWES designed and built a robot automation cell that would take a stack of doors from an infeed conveyor…
CNC Lathe Automation System
By going with robotic machine tending, this firm eliminated the need for hiring skilled workers and enhancing a process that requires only minimal human interaction to perform…
Automated Casting Finishing Production Line
This firm chose to move to robotic automation for their casting finishing production line needs…
Robotic Deburring System
MWES built two large automated deburring systems for an engine manufacturer…
Robotic Chamfer Grind System
MWES engineered an automation system that took advantage of innovative technology that addressed all of the current production issues…
Engine Block Wash Automation
With their current system down to only 60% effectiveness, the customer’s automated engine block wash stag…
Robotic Welding
Aerial Lift Weldments
Robotic welding cells were provided to our customer, to accommodate a variety of weldments used in aerial lift platforms.
Robotic Frame Welding
MWES provided a Robotic Frame Welding Cell to our customer, for the final welding of generator base frames. This system included a robot and a 2-sided, interchanging, welding positioner, as well…
Skid Steer Welding Automation
The robotic weld cell that MWES provided to our customer is capable of processing both Wacker chassis and load arm sub-assemblies. The system utilizes a large material handling robot to present…
Pressure Vessel Head Welding Cell
This system is designed to install, tack and weld ring sections into the shell section of the Super Jumbo product line. The ring weld cell consists of an MWES designed gantry with multiple servo…
Concrete Mixer Drum Welding Line
MWES provided this truck manufacturer with automation equipment to robotically weld booster cone sub-assemblies. The sub-assemblies were to be welded using Lincoln weld equipment and positioned…
Skylift 3-Axis Welding Positioner
This project consists of a MWES standard Robotic Welding Positioner and End Effector for our customer’s product.
3-Phase Transformer Cover Weld Cell
MWES designed and built completely automated robotic weld cell whose purpose is to complete the cover welding on large transformers…
Weld Vessel
A firm came to MWES looking to automating a precise and complicated weld process on large scale medical equipment…
Automated 3-piece Pipe Weld Cell
Robotically automating a welding process has a great ROI eliminating the need to staff skilled labor to accomplish complicated welding tasks…
Robotic Truss Welding Cell
MWES designed a robotic weld cell that could handle the truss welding with speed and ease. This automated welding cell consisted of industrial robots…
Robotic Welding & Positioner System
Midwest Engineered Systems built a robotic welding with large positioner system for large part manufacturing…
Robotic Welding and Milling for High-Speed Handling of Bus Bars
With the hazards associated with welding and the difficulty in finding highly skilled welders a firm looking to automate…
Laser Welding System for Rail Car Panels
MWES provided this firm with a Gudel 6-axis overhead gantry system with a laser welding head, controlled by a KUKA robot controller…
Web Handling
Spool Payout Twister with Capstan and Accumulator
MWES provided this firm with a planetary payout twister that consists of three rotary dials that hold ten spools each that feed into a Broomfield 400C coil winding…
Coating-Laminating Line Additions
A firm came to MWES looking to add onto and enhance an existing web handling coating-laminating line with an SSI 90 Slitter…
Adhesive Tape Line
Producing rolls of adhesive tape quickly is a challenging process and is one not easily done with manual labor….
Roll Handling and Wrapping System
Utilizing a conveyor system and two automated stretch wrapping stations, this challenging process can be done quickly and easily…
Roll Storage & Cutting System of Laminate Rolls
The system had to utilize a robot to navigate a compact racking system to retrieve 62 inch long rolls…
Silicone Coating Line System
Midwest Engineered Systems engineered a new machine that took advantage of innovative technologies…
Laminating Line with Automated Packaging
This firm was faced with manufacturing a high volume product from basic raw materials for shipment and point of sale in retail stores…
Web Handling Line Drive & Controls Upgrade
MWES proposed a major upgrade of the drive system, motors, the PLC, safety devices, HMI displays and pushbutton controls…
If you are interested in the industrial automation capabilities that MWES provides, please contact us today. Our application engineers can help guide you through the process and answer any questions you may have.
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