Material Handling
Automated Material Handling For Manufacturers
Material handling is the #1 source of workplace injuries in the U.S., accounting for $13.7 billion in costs in 2025 alone. Implementing automated material handling systems into your facility enables you to upskill your workers, moving them from hazardous material handling roles into areas that can add more value to your company – areas like quality control and process improvement. Isthmus can design a custom automated material handling solution that maximizes the consistency, efficiency, scalability, and safety of your entire production process.
Material Handling Automation Capabilities
Custom material conveyance & transfer
Automated material handling systems can move your materials with speed, precision, and control that were previously unheard of. Isthmus can design custom automated material handling solutions to perfectly suit your facility and materials.
Accumulation systems
Automated accumulation systems utilize sensors to manage product flow and processes running at different speeds. These systems maximize efficiency by eliminating bottlenecks, stoppages, and waste.
Flexible palletizing systems
Adopting flexible palletizing systems boosts your operational efficiency, handling multiple SKUs and pallet patterns without no need for manual changeovers or slowing down.
Robotics & systems integration
Partnering with an automation engineering firm like Isthmus ensures that you will receive a turnkey system backed by our extensive controls expertise to create a seamless interface with third-party equipment and robotics. Isthmus automated material handling processes create a much safer and more efficient workplace.
Advantages of Automated Material Handling Systems
Increased Safety
Material handling automation streamlines your entire operation and facilitates an ergonomically optimized environment. Automation of material handling allows you to remove employees from precarious manual work and place them in roles that add value to your business.
Increased Quality & Consistency
Automated material handling equipment performs with repeatable consistency and at a rate much faster than human workers. This eliminates bottlenecks and ramps up your production capacity.
Lower Costs
In addition to the savings that come along with an increased production capacity, automation also reduces the amount you spend on manual labor, minimizes waste, and lowers the amount of injury claims by removing operators from unergonomic/unsafe operations.
Pharmaceutical Packaging
Custom product and literature placement, as well as unique labeling requirements for OTC packaging.
Diagnostic Device Packaging
Vision-guided positioning of sealing gaskets, custom box-forming, and placement of multiple literature inserts into a medical testing kit.
Pest Control Device Packaging
Assembly of a point of purchase display package, including custom stations to feed, wrap and weld a safety strap prior to offload.