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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.

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CASE STUDIES

Advancing Automation with Custom Ignition Software

In the rapidly evolving world of automation, success depends on leveraging cutting-edge software and systems to optimize machine performance from the ground up. Innovative electrical controls programming is at the forefront of our key solutions. At SDC our top-notch controls and software engineering…
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CASE STUDIES

Custom Cartoning Machine for Industrial Clamps

Steven Douglas Corp. (SDC) was tasked with a new challenge from a returning customer. Adding to their production line of hose clamp manufacturing, they needed an automated way to package hose clamps into cartons to supply retail stores. This machine needed to pack 10 clamps per carton and work with …
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CASE STUDIES

Automated Medical Tube Assembly

A long-standing customer in the medical equipment manufacturing industry approached SDC to expand their production capabilities with an additional custom automated solution. The goal was to improve throughput, reduce manual labor, and automate a previously labor-intensive process involving medical t…
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CASE STUDIES

Custom Automated Tool Packaging Machine

A leading international supplier in the cutting tool industry presented the need for a flexible automated packaging solution to add to their manufacturing facility. This machine needed to be able to package multiple sizes of drill tools. With this customer preferring integration of FANUC robots, it …
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CASE STUDIES

Switch Assembly Automation: A Hybrid Solution

Our established customer in global industrial technology needed an addition to their line of automated machines in the United States. This semi-automated machine that is focused on digital transformation of energy management is one of many machines supporting their smart factory initiative, meaning …
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