10.07.22
The customer required a conveyor system to transport product from the discharge of a freezer system over to a new case packer. The conveyor system also needed as much accumulation time built into is as possible. The customer wanted this system to be able to be used for up to 16 package sizes and rates. The Harris conveyor design group used our experience from many other accumulation systems to design a conveyor system that was dual lane with over 500 total ...
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Harris was responsible for design and installation of a dual spiral accumulation system. The customer was hand palletizing cases of product creating a space issue and a bottle neck in the packaging area. The customer wanted to automate and minimize the footprint of this process to create valuable space to be used for growth. This customer had worked with Harris previously, purchasing our vertical sanitary conveyors and chose to work with our company again because of our ...
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This project was a custom designed conveyor system to handle meat patties and also the same meat patties after they are put into the package for retail sale. The unpackaged product conveyors use modular belting with Harris sanitary conveyor frame design. These conveyors transport the raw product from a freezer tunnel over to a hand loading station to go into an automatic shrink wrapper. The packaged product conveyors transport the wrapped product from the shrink wrapper to ...
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The customer needed a conveyor system for individually wrapped small frozen products. The product comes from two wrappers in 8 lanes at 300 pieces per minute on each wrapper. The conveyor system requirements are to take the 8 lanes wide down to 1 lane wide, then convey the single lane around to custom fabricated hand pack stations. Harris custom designed these 3-4 worker hand pack stations to bring the product in at a higher elevation with the empty cases directly below ...
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The Williams International – Blue Phoenix Ogden Addition project was a new manufacturing plant for Williams International in Ogden, Utah. This was a fast-paced project where the mechanical and plumbing design was happening while the shell of the building was going up. From design initiation to completion, the total duration was 8 months. This included the design of a highly efficient process cooling system that incorporated four fluid coolers, four air handlers, and three water cooled chillers. This project ...
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Harris was hired as the mechanical contractor for the Confidential Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Facility Phase I project. The manufacturing facility is being used to build a new electric sedan model.
For the project, Harris provided the services of BIM, design and engineering, HVAC, plumbing and preconstruction services while subcontracting crane, insulation and rigging. The project had a delayed start with an already aggressive schedule. As a solution, Harris held meetings with the owner ...
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Harris’ scope included plumbing, mechanical piping, process piping and ductwork. This was a highly collaborative design-assist project. The facility is approximately 5.3 million square feet of operational production and advanced manufacturing space across multiple floors and several acres.
Harris delivered solutions on several challenges throughout the project. The local union hall was not adequately staffed for a project this size. Harris met with the top leaders of the International Unions to discuss nationwide workforce availability and develop recruiting ...
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In spring of 2018, Harris installed a new ammonia compressor, intercooler, and new piping and accessories at the Birdseye Plant in Waseca, MN. As part of this project, Harris demolished and removed several existing system components and installed a new compressor and intercooler as stated above. In addition, there were several pieces of equipment that had to be relocated within the plant in order for the new equipment to be installed. Harris worked closely with the owner, engineer, and equipment ...
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Harris performed the installation of all heating, cooling, and process piping on a nearly 1,000,000 square foot expansion project at the Faribault Foods Plant in Faribault, MN. As part of the project, Harris installed two 1000 BHP boilers, two 550-ton chillers, three cooling towers, three large outside water storage tanks, and all of the other associated pumps and piping specialties related to each of the piping systems installed. Along with this, Harris also ran several thousand feet of steam, condensate, chilled ...
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Harris was contracted to design and install conveyors that improved the quality control process for the customer.
The existing system was over 20 years old, frequently breaking down and causing product damage when pushed into the freezer. The pusher was pneumatic and too aggressive with the unfrozen pans causing product loss. The customer was also concerned with the unsanitary design, making the equipment hard to clean. In addition, the existing system did not have room to accommodate quality ...
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