Mel-O-Cream Donuts designed a simple yet robust automated packaging and labeling line to replace a manual system.
Founded in 1932 as a retail shop in Springfield, IL, Mel-O-Cream International manufactures bakery products, primarily for wholesale distribution to supermarkets and bakeries. It now produces more than 80 frozen donut items.
“As donut manufacturing capacity and capabilities grew, so did the demands on our product packaging processes,” says John Armstrong, director of technology & engineering. In the past, preprinted paper labels were manually glued to every case. The “best-if-used-by” date and batch code were also manually rubber-stamped to each case, according to Armstrong.