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Industrial automation solutions are custom-engineered systems that combine robotics, controls, and material handling equipment to automate a complex packaging or process line. This is not just a single machine, but the full sequence of steps between them. These projects are typically larger in scope than a standard equipment purchase and are engineered around a specific process, material, or set of handling challenges.
Tinsley Equipment Company works with dedicated engineering teams that design and integrate custom automation systems for processes that don't fit an off-the-shelf solution. Examples include automating hazardous or reactive powder handling, building multi-station robotic assembly lines, and integrating robotic tray handling and filling systems into food-safe production lines. We also design systems around bag opening and emptying, robotic depalletizing, and other steps that are often still done manually.
Every project starts with an evaluation of your existing process: material characteristics, production rate, safety requirements, and how the new system needs to integrate with equipment you already have. From there, a custom solution is engineered rather than fitting your process to a pre-built machine.
Have a process that's complicated, hazardous, or hard to automate with standard equipment?
Contact our team to discuss your project. We'll help you scope what a custom automation solution would look like.
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Category | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions | Intermediate Bulk Containers or IBCs |
A rare earth metals producer needed a safe and controlled way to process rejected powder that could generate a large amount of heat when exposed to oxygen.
The material still had value and could be returned to the refining process, but it first had to be transferred from an intermediate bulk container, or IBC, without allowing an uncontrolled reaction to begin.
Category | Bag Handling Conveyors | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This automatic bag emptying system was designed for a business that needed to automate powder discharge from bags while maintaining a clean, dust-controlled environment.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This small footprint palletizer was designed for a small business that needed automated palletizing in a limited amount of floor space. In this application, the system was used to stack bags onto pallets, but the same general type of robotic palletizing system can also be used for boxes, cases, and other packaged products.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Industrial Automation Solutions | Small Bag Fillers |
This automated stand up pouch machine uses a high-speed net weigher and automatic bag placer to package free-flowing, dry bulk products into preformed stand up pouches or doypacks with speed, accuracy, and consistency. It is ideal for companies that need to eliminate manual filling, reduce labor, and improve pouch presentation for retail-ready packaging.
Stand up pouch being filled with specialty dog food
Category | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This robotic tray filling system automates tray handling, loading, filling, and stacking of food-safe trays in a production line to boost efficiency and reduce labor. It improves throughput and ensures compliance with FDA and food safety standards.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This box palletizing robot can pick up multiple boxes at once and stack them on a shipping pallet. It can pick up different sized boxes from multiple infeed conveyors on both sides of the robot. An automatic pallet dispenser can line up multiple pallets at once to reduce downtime as full pallets are discharged from the box stack zone. Choose from different stacking patterns to fit your specific box and pallet sizes.
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions | Large Vibratory Feeders |
This automatic bag emptying machine with opener can slice and slit open 20-110 pound bags and empty their contents into downstream conveyors or processing equipment. It opens and empties various bag types including multiply / multiwall paper bags, polywoven bags, and burlap bags containing but not limited to coffee, flour, grains, nuts, sugar, spices, beans, seeds, salt, oats, corn, cocoa, peanuts, mustard, peppercorn, whey powder, corn flour (starch), chemical powders and granules, as well as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
Category | Automatic Bagging Machines | Industrial Automation Solutions | Open Mouth Bagging Machines |
This project features a fully automated form, fill, and seal (FFS) packaging line designed to package PVC powder into 25 kg polyethylene bags at 500+ bags per hour. The system integrates precise net weighing, dust-controlled filling, automated bag forming and sealing, downstream inspection, robotic palletizing, and pallet protection to deliver consistent bag quality, high accuracy, and reliable operation for powder packaging applications.
Category | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This automatic battery pack assembly line uses robots and automation to assemble different sized battery packs from cartons of EV cells.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Automatic Bagging Machines | Industrial Automation Solutions | Valve Bag Fillers |
This automatic bag filling and palletizing robot places empty bags on the bagging machine’s fill spout and palletizes the bags after filling.
Category | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions | Intermediate Bulk Containers or IBCs |
This automated IBC discharge system empties battery powder from one intermediate bulk container into an empty IBC under a nitrogen purge. This type of powder handling system is used during the battery manufacturing process.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Bulk Processing Equipment | Industrial Automation Solutions |
This automatic drum palletizer robot uses an arm to pick up and stack drums on shipping pallets. The end-of-arm tool can be adjusted, and the stacking pattern can be re-programmed to easily accept different types and sizes of drums. The robot is also set up to stack the drums with the labels pointing in the same direction.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Automatic Bagging Machines | Bag Handling Conveyors | Industrial Automation Solutions |
One of our manufacturers recently designed and implemented an automatic depalletizer and bag dump station for a customer in the chemical industry. The system involves a robot depalletizer that unstacks 50 lb. bags of chemical powders from a shipping pallet located to the left and right side of the robot. The bags are picked up 3 at a time and placed 1 at a time on a conveyor that transports them to an inclined belt conveyor that discharges them into automatic bag dump station. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the system, explain how the robot depalletizer system works using a vision system, and outline the features and benefits of the system.
Category | Automated Palletizers | Automatic Bagging Machines | Industrial Automation Solutions | Open Mouth Bagging Machines |
View of Bagging Machine and High-Speed Bag Closer in an Automated Packaging System
Rice producers face several challenges when it comes to bagging and packaging their product. Manual bagging processes can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to errors. To overcome these challenges, a USA-based rice producer sought an automated packaging system that could increase production efficiency, reduce labor costs, and improve bagging accuracy. In this case study, we’ll examine how the company successfully implemented the system, resulting in significant time and cost savings.