San Jose was founded in 1777 as Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, the first city established in the Californias, and it later served as California's first state capital. Long before it became a packaging automation and technology hub, the city spent 1900 to 1910 building a reputation as a center for mechanizing and industrializing agricultural and food-processing equipment, engineering machines that let orchards and canneries scale past what hand labor could manage. San Jose's rapid, technology-driven economic boom after World War II carried that engineering base forward, and by 1971 its cluster of high-technology, computer, and microprocessor companies had grown dense enough to earn the region a new name, Silicon Valley.

Food and beverage producers scaling a line in or near San Jose can draw on that same engineering and integration talent, and on a customer base that already expects precision equipment. A Mars Series VFFS bagger or EcoBagger premade-pouch machine handles snack foods and other packaged goods at the speed those processors need to compete, while an EliteWeigh multihead weigher feeds accurate portions into that bagger for granular or frozen product. A PackMaster cobot palletizer fits naturally into a region already comfortable with automation and engineering-driven manufacturing, and a checkweigher or X-ray inspection system rounds out the line for quality control before product ships. PLAN IT installs VFFS baggers, multihead weighers, robotic palletizers, and inspection systems for San Jose's food and beverage producers.