System Engineering & Customization

Turnkey System Design

Summit has the capability to manage everything end-to-end in the design, build, and integration of packaging systems. A “turnkey system” refers to a system that is fully complete and ready to use by the customer once implementation is complete, meaning that you don’t need to handle the integration of other equipment into the line – we do that for you. This includes strategic planning, cost/benefit analysis, engineering design, plant layouts, system build and installation, aftersales support and training, and much more. Ensuring that the system design is optimized so that it fits within your factory flow and space constraints.

We have experience in designing systems within a wide variety of industries, including but not limited to:

• Bottling lines
• Case forming, packing, and sealing
• Robotic systems
• Vacuum packaging
• Bagging
• Labeling
• And much more

Packaging Workcell Design

If you need a custom workcell for your packaging process, Summit Packaging has the experience to design, build, and integrate custom workcells into your production environment. Whether you need a simple assembly workstation or a complex robotic system to automate your packaging process, we’ve got you covered. We design workcells for packaging that seamlessly integrate into pre-existing or new equipment. Summit can also assist in identifying areas within your warehouse or factory that would greatly benefit from automation workcells.

• Automate labor-intensive and repetitive tasks
• Streamline end-of-line packaging
• Increase your production speeds
• Seamless integration into packaging equipment
• Realize immediate returns on your investment by improving process efficiency and throughput

Robotics + Machine Vision

You can eliminate heavy, repetitive, or labor-intensive tasks by implementing robotics into your packaging processes. This frees up your workforce so they can work on more important tasks within your organization. Vision systems can function to improve the quality of your product through automation of quality inspection.

• Robotic packing of yogurt cups into cases
• Vision inspection of labels on bags or cartons
• Robotic pick-and-place of crackers onto a flow wrapper packaging machine
• Automatic bagging of machined components

Factory + Floor Layout

Eliminate inefficiencies and wastefulness within your production environment by optimizing your factory layout. We are experienced with Lean and Six Sigma principles which allows us to help our customers come up with the most efficient process layouts possible.

How does this benefit you? By optimizing your packaging and material flow, you can realize huge gains in efficiency and cost savings with the same equipment and workforce. Optimizing factory logistics and material flow allows you to free up labor so they can focus on the most important tasks within your organization, leading to higher productivity, quality, and so much more.

Fabrication + Assembly

Do you need a component designed? We can do that! Need something custom fabricated, machined, or assembled? We can do that too! Our engineering team is experienced in design for manufacturability, and we have the capabilities to build anything you might need.

• Reverse engineering and build of hard-to-find or obsoleted packaging machine components
• Fabrication of custom sheet metal components
• Turn-key assembly
• Machining of Aluminum, steel, or stainless steel components