The resulting machine is now known as USS’s next‑generation Case Loading and Packing System (CLAPS). USS rapidly designed and built a custom solution for the application in approximately nine months. The customer previously used a six-axis robot cell to complete the process of inserting bagged trays into boxes, but the cell’s speed was too slow to keep up with their high rate of production upstream. ![]() ![]() It’s critical that the bagged trays don’t overlap beyond a set point, which would likely lead to product damage. The products are placed in trays, which are then stacked and inserted into plastic bags in a clean room. The application presented USS with a number of unique engineering challenges. The customer needed extremely precise product and package handling that assured zero damage after its medical products left the manufacturing area – this part of the DC project went to USS for a custom machine design. The facility’s end of line required a highly customized machine to handle complex packaging requirements unique to their application. “That said, we also have a deep catalog of custom-designed equipment, so we sometimes adapt previous designs or create entirely new concepts to meet each customer’s unique requirements.” Material handling and packaging expertise combinedĪ large manufacturer in the medical industry approached Honeywell Intelligrated in 2021 to automate their entire distribution center (DC). “Where many other suppliers have a set catalog and can only deliver the items listed, we are truly a bespoke engineering house,” says Evan Bassett, Advanced Software Engineer, USS. Packaging equipment is just one of a variety of different types of custom solutions they can offer. While USS most typically works in tote handling applications, often providing these solutions to the largest retailers in the world, the team there considers custom solutions as the core competency. Now as part of Honeywell's Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) business, USS maintains its role as a solution center for internal and external customers by providing specialized designs for tough or unusual material handling applications challenges. “Whenever Honeywell Intelligrated ran into a situation in a distribution center where they needed highly specialized equipment to be delivered very cost-effectively, they would come to USS to collaborate.” ![]() “Prior to the acquisition, USS was a preferred supplier to Honeywell Intelligrated's Warehouse Automation Group, because we’re very agile and not afraid to design something completely new,” explains Eamon Kelly, Advanced Mechanical Design Engineer at USS. One such supplier is United Sortation Solutions (USS), which became a subsidiary of Honeywell Intelligrated in 2016. ![]() Serving end users that operate in this crossover area takes knowledgeable equipment suppliers that are experts in both realms. Once goods have been retrieved and picked to fulfill an order, orders are sorted and conveyed to the last 100 feet of the warehouse where packaging, weighing and labeling occurs before shipping - one of the critical final steps. The high growth intralogistics and packaging markets have developed an interesting overlap that experts in both industries have recognized for years.
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