Customer: Midwest Cocoa Producer Installed Cost: $350,000 The customer is upgrading production lines and automating manual processes. AIG replaced an old manual super-sack filling process (ingredient weighing had been the only automated step) with an automated super-sack fill system that includes a pallet dispenser, fill system and stretch wrapper. Once each woven-poly bag is filled with 1 metric ton of …
Pork Plant Cooler Room Structural Repairs
Customer: National Pork Producer Installed Cost: $300,000 In order to complete upgrades to its production lines, this pork producer needed to make structural repairs to a cooler room in the plant. AIG provided project management and the civil and mechanical crews to complete the repair. The scope of work included demolition, stainless steel floor repair, installation of concrete footings and …
Renovation of Food-Grade Evaporation Salt Plant
Customer: North American Mineral Producer General Contractor: Galyon Brothers Construction Structural Engineer: Engineering Consultants Installed Cost: $2 million , This $2-million capital project renovated the century-old vacuum building of the plant’s vacuum pan evaporation process. The AIG team was responsible for several phases of the project: Structural engineering design of shoring to support wooden structure during demolition. Mechanical engineering …
Automated Packaging Upgrade in Glass Wool Plant
Customer: Private | East Coast Installed Cost: Confidential When the customer decided to upgrade its packaging line, they chose a fully automated packaging system. The line bags glass wool batt insulation into single pack retail packages. The contract included procurement, installation, programming and start-up services.
Automated Manufacturing Storage & Retrieval System
Customer: John Deere | Midwest Installed cost: $1.5 million This agricultural implement manufacturer needed to upgrade its 20-plus-year-old manual parts storage and retrieval system. The upgrade fully automated the system to allow plant to store, sort and retrieve equipment parts on demand via a plant management control system. Installation occurred around the clock to minimize the impact on the plant …
Automated Insulation Packaging & Unitizer Process
Customer: Private | Southwest facility Installed Cost: $2.5 million Objective: Replace existing manual packaging system with a new PLC-driven automated packaging system to unitize single packages of insulation into a unit. System was fully automated allowing single packages to be transported to the unitizing system and automatically placed into a large bag for shipping. System included a high-speed vision system …
Automated Insulation Packaging & Palletizing Process
Customer: Private | Southwest facility Installed Cost: $15 million Objective: Replace existing manual packaging system with a new PLC-driven automated packaging system to package different products at variable packaging rates. Some products are stacked and placed in cartons, then the cartons stacked on pallets and secured together to the pallet. Other products are stacked directly on pallets with corrugated end …