Automated Food Packaging Equipment
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Complete Food & Beverage Packaging Automation
RMH Systems designs and integrates complete automated systems that bring your entire packaging process together into one efficient line.
Food & Beverage Packaging Applications
Our automated systems can be designed around a wide range of food and beverage products, packaging formats, and production requirements.
Meat & Poultry
Packaging automation for fresh, frozen, and processed meat and poultry products.
Dairy Products
Automated packaging solutions for cheese, yogurt, and other dairy products.
Prepared Foods
Flexible systems for packaged meals, ready-to-eat foods, and other prepared products.
Sauces & Condiments
Filling and packaging systems for sauces, dressings, condiments, and other liquid or viscous foods.
Snacks & Dry Foods
Automated packaging and handling for snacks, grains, nuts, and other dry products.
Beverages
Filling, packaging, and end-of-line automation for a range of beverage products.
Food & Beverage Packaging Equipment
Integrate each stage of your packaging process into one automated system designed around your products and production requirements.
Inspection Systems
Inspect packaged products for quality, contaminants, and other production requirements.
Checkweighers
Verify package weights and automatically reject products outside specified weight tolerances.
Automation Designed Around Your Production Requirements
Food packaging automation has to account for more than speed. That’s why RMH designs each system around your products, packaging, facility, and production requirements.
Here are just a few of the factors we consider when designing your new system.
✓ Sanitary and washdown requirements
✓ Product and package handling
✓ Food safety and quality inspection
✓ Product and packaging changeovers
✓ Throughput and production goals
✓ Integration with existing equipment
One Trusted Partner for Every Step of Your Project
Rather than coordinating multiple vendors throughout your automation project, work with one team to bring the system together. RMH provides the engineering, integration, installation, and support needed to take your packaging system from concept to production.
Our in-house experts work alongside you as a trusted partner through every stage of your project.
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Engineering: System design and equipment selection based on your products, process, and production goals.
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Integration: Mechanical, electrical, and controls integration to bring equipment together as one system.
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Installation & Startup: Installation, programming, testing, and commissioning to get your system production-ready.
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Service & Support: Ongoing technical support, maintenance, and service after your system is up and running.
Food Automation Success Stories
Conveyor Integration Reduces Manual Packing While Reusing Existing Equipment
This customer is a private-label bakery for a major regional grocery store chain. They needed to increase production volume while reducing the manual labor required to pack baked goods into cases.
Challenges
- Increasing production volumes: The bakery needed to support higher production volumes with a process that relied heavily on manual case packing.
- Existing equipment integration: The customer wanted to reuse its existing bulk packer, labeling, case sealing, and palletizing equipment as part of the automated process.
Solutions
RMH designed a conveyor system that integrated with the bakery’s existing packaging equipment, allowing the customer to automate more of the case-packing process while using equipment already in its facility.
Product is conveyed from the flash freezer to an elevated infeed on the customer’s bulk packer, which counts the individual baked goods and drops the appropriate quantity into a case below. A zero-pressure accumulation conveyor automatically indexes cases into position beneath the packer and holds each case in place during filling.
Once a case is filled, the bulk packer signals the conveyor to release it. The case then moves through a case shaker to settle the product before continuing to the customer’s existing labeling, case sealing, and palletizing equipment.
The system also includes a manual packing option that allows product to be diverted to operators if the automated packing process is unavailable, helping the bakery maintain production.
In addition to the conveyor hardware, RMH provided the controls package, which included a control panel, PLC programming, and commissioning to operate the system as one complete solution.
Results
✓ Supports increased production volumes
✓ Reduces repetitive manual case packing
✓ Repurposes employees to higher-value roles
✓ Reuses existing packaging equipment
✓ Maintains flexibility with a manual packing option
Conveyor System Helps Bakery Reconfigure Facility for Increased Production Volume
This customer is a large-scale private-label bakery for major retailers nationwide. As part of a facility reconfiguration, they needed a new system to move frozen pies from the freezer to relocated packaging equipment and support increased production volumes.
Challenges
- Facility Reconfiguration: The bakery was reconfiguring an existing facility using equipment relocated from other plants.
- Product Flow: The new layout required a reliable way to move frozen pies from the freezer’s elevated discharge, down to operator level, and to the packaging equipment.
Solutions
RMH designed and integrated a turnkey conveyor system around the new line layout. The system conveys frozen pies from the freezer to the customer’s packaging equipment.
In addition to the conveyor hardware, RMH provided the controls package, which included a control panel, PLC programming, and commissioning to operate the system as one complete solution.
Results
✓ Connects the freezer and packaging processes within the new line layout
✓ Integrates relocated equipment into the reconfigured facility
✓ Automates product movement between production and packaging
✓ Supports plans for increased production volumes
