Packaging automation rarely gets mentioned in the same breath as Melbourne, Florida, a city whose economy has been shaped since the 1950s by the aerospace and defense work tied to nearby Cape Canaveral. But sitting along that same stretch of the Space Coast, between the citrus and cattle country that built Melbourne originally and the launch corridor that remade it, is a beverage sector that keeps running quietly in the background. A family-owned beer, wine, and spirits distributor founded in 1960 operates a 165,000-square-foot facility in Melbourne carrying more than 1,000 SKUs from over 34 suppliers across Brevard County. The state's largest craft brewer, founded in 1996, runs an 11,000-square-foot brewery on the city's main corridor, and a second brewery and gastropub occupies a 120-year-old former hardware and farm-supply building in historic downtown Melbourne.

Any operation moving that many SKUs through one warehouse, or canning and bottling at brewery scale, eventually runs into the same bottleneck. Cases need packing and pallets need building fast enough to keep trucks loaded. Our Pack Series case packers handle that kind of high-mix, high-volume case work, the same kind of scaled bottling and canning throughput jump we've helped other beverage producers make, and our PackMaster cobot palletizers stack the finished pallets without adding headcount. For bagged or dry-goods lines, our Mars Series VFFS baggers round out the setup. PLAN IT has no office on the Space Coast; we reach Melbourne's producers the way we reach the rest of Florida, shipping and servicing equipment from our Toronto and Tampa operations. If your Melbourne warehouse or brewery is packing cases by hand, or your current line can't match the SKU count you're running, we can look at what a case-packing or palletizing retrofit would take.