Cary's snack-food manufacturer runs a packaging line inside a city that already thinks in automation. The top employer here is a data-analytics software company with 4,024 workers, and an industrial-automation and robotics manufacturer employs another 1,000 close by, the kind of neighbor that keeps skilled automation technicians in the local labor pool. A medical-technology manufacturer employing 2,000 people, a manufacturer of adhesives, coatings, and motion-management components for aerospace and automotive customers, and a cotton-research and promotion organization with worldwide reach round out Cary's employer base, proof the city runs on precision manufacturing well beyond its snack-food output. Robotics and automation expertise clustered in one place tends to produce a workforce that already understands high-speed, sensor-driven equipment, the same engineering built into a modern snack-packaging machine. Cary has also run a Simulated Smart City IoT program since 2016, using smart water-monitoring and stormwater flood-alert systems built with its top employer's own analytics software, a municipal habit of automating everyday systems that lines up with the packaging automation on this page.

PLAN IT builds around that kind of production: Mars Series VFFS machines and Pack Series flow wrappers for bagged and wrapped snacks, EliteWeigh multihead weighers for accurate fill weights, and automatic case packers with PackMaster cobot palletizers to move finished cases without adding headcount. We build automation tuned to the same high-speed, sensor-driven standard Cary's robotics cluster already runs on. A snack line here can pull equipment from our food and beverage packaging solutions or our full range of solutions, matched to the pace Cary's automation base already keeps.