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Material Handling & Packaging

We provide reliable, high-speed automated material handling machines.

Streamline your production process with automated packing and material handling solutions designed to boost efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance workplace safety. Our advanced systems take on physically demanding and repetitive tasks, freeing up operators for higher-value work while improving speed and precision. From robotic integration and pick-and-place technology to custom conveyor systems and palletizing, we design solutions that minimize manual labor and maximize productivity. Whether you need to optimize material flow, automate packaging, or improve part placement, our proven automation methods ensure seamless and reliable performance.

Automated packing and material handling machines can improve efficiency by increasing output, controlling costs, and maximizing productivity. They can also increase operator safety by completing tasks that are physically demanding or hazardous.

Our solutions minimize operator responsibilities and maximize efficiency. We have proven methods to automate:
  • Web Handling
  • Ultraprecise Part Placement
  • Custom Conveyor Systems Integration
  • Tray Loading and Unloading
  • Pick-and-Place
  • Linear Servo Gantry
  • Robotic Integration
  • 3D Sensor Integration
  • Flex Feeding Systems
  • Palletizing
  • De-palletizing
  • Machine Tending
  • Stacking
  • Packaging
  • De-reeling / De-coilers
  • Servo-driven Feeding
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SDC Flex Feeding

Pre-engineered Machine Platform

Through years of experience designing and building automated material handling machines, SDC has developed a proprietary Flex Feeding system. This system takes bulk-fed components and uses a combination of vision-guided robotics and conveyor systems to execute pick-and-place functions quickly and accurately.

A key advantage of our proprietary flex feeder design is that the system is flexible in all aspects. It can adapt and be programmed to fit fast or slow applications, big or small parts, any part color, and many other part variations that are traditionally difficult to feed automatically.

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Vision-guided Motions

Designed for High-speed Applications

Smart Programming

Maximized Robotic Utilization

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SDCHASSIS

Durable chassis design for superior performance and structural integrity.

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TRAY HANDLING

Automated tray handling to streamline processes that require precise loading and unloading.

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CARTONING & PACKAGING

Efficient cartoning and packaging systems designed to keep your products moving from assembly to ready-for-sale.

CASE STUDIES

How SDC Ensured ±0.00015” Precision with Automated Measurement

SDC designed an automated in-line measurement and quality control system for a leading consumer appliance manufacturer specializing in precision-ground blender components. The system ensures real-time measurement of critical part diameters with ultra-tight tolerances of ±0.00015” using a Keyence …
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CASE STUDIES

Custom Cartoning and Packaging Machines

Recently, we were approached by two customers looking to integrate automated cartoners into the machines we were designing for them. Both needed automatic product packaging with the capability to process multiple-sized cartons. This was a perfect opportunity to use our standard cartoner design and m…
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CASE STUDIES

SDC Custom End-of-Arm Robotic Tooling

Robots are a trending topic and have been since their emergence. A common misconception when a manufacturing company is looking to invest in machine automation is that each process needs its own robot. With many processes needing various steps to achieve the intended output, like the assembly of a h…
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CASE STUDIES

Gas Burner Assembly Machine

Looking for an additional machine to add to their facility, we worked with our continual customer in the gas component manufacturing industry to provide the highest quality machine with the updated technology.
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CASE STUDIES

Hose Clamp Assembly Machine

This machine was custom designed and built for an SDC customer specializing in the after-market clamp and connector supplier for the aerospace, military, marine and other industries.
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