Automation of Packaging Process Bershtel Enterprises

WePackItAll Engineering, 2019-20

Liaison(s): Natan Bershtel ’01
Advisor(s): Professor Philip Cha
Students(s): Greg Pagani, Lukas DeSimone, Ginger Schmidt (S), Jimmy Fernandez (S), Louise Smith (S), Sophie Yu (F)

WePackItAll, a contract packager, packages a variety of products, including powder stick packs. For one of their clients, WePackItAll is scaling up the production of stick packs to 200 million per year. However, the secondary packaging of stick packs into pouches is currently done by hand and is a resource-intensive process. Our team aims to partially or entirely automate this process to make secondary packaging easier and to improve production.