Over 70 years of experience.
Focused entirely on food today.

JLS systems are engineered from the ground up for food plants, including USDA / FSIS facilities — not adapted dry-environment robots. Construction is matched to the plant’s sanitation program, from cleanable construction in packaging areas to hygienic washdown construction where exposed product calls for it, with IP69K-rated components where the application demands. Stainless steel frames — open-channel or round-tube, engineered per platform to shed water — minimize bacterial harborage and stand up to caustic, chlorinated alkaline, and acid sanitizers.

VOB 2.0 Vacuum on Board tooling — JLS-engineered, with airflow optimized using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) — and quick-removal tooling supports cleaning and product changeover. It handles wet proteins and soft cheeses that are genuinely difficult to automate.

Controls, vision, robotics, and HMI are all programmed in-house in York, PA on commercially available B&R hardware — so primary handling, case packing, and cartoning can come from one automation partner on one controls platform, supported by JLS’s in-house support team.

JLS Flight Lab puts difficult products — wet, sticky, fragile, or irregular — on real JLS robotics in York, PA before the design is finalized. Send product samples, or a close proxy, subject to scope and availability, and we test tooling and pick method so the system is engineered around how your line really runs — not a generic spec.