Industry focus
Geek Engineering designs controls, electrical drawings and data integration for the equipment that turns harvested cannabis into sealed, labeled packages: flower filling and weighing, pre-roll lines, child-resistant capping, print-and-apply labeling and the line records a licensee's inventory software reports to the state. We work for licensed operators and the OEMs that build their machines, and we never handle product.
A cannabis packaging line uses the same classes of machine as food or consumer-goods packaging: feeders, weighers, fillers, cappers, labelers and conveyors. What changes is the product and the paperwork. Cured flower is sticky, light and irregular, so it bridges in hoppers and clings to weigh buckets. A one-gram pre-roll or an eighth-ounce jar leaves almost no room for fill error, and every label carries batch, potency and serial data that must match what the licensee reports.
Most licensed processors start with semi-automatic stations and automate as volume grows. The engineering question is which step to automate first, and how to make the line's counts, weights and label serials reconcile with the inventory system without anyone re-keying them. Equipment builders selling into this market face the mirror image: machines that must run a sticky botanical product and hand clean data to software they do not control.
Geek Engineering has not published project work in the cannabis industry. We apply the packaging, controls and data-integration capability documented across this site, and we say so before any proposal is written.
Scope
Project process
From your equipment list, layout and goals; no site visit is needed to decide whether we fit.
Scheduled under your security plan with photo ID, badge and escort. Engineers never touch product.
Control architecture, data flow between the line and inventory software, drawings and the test plan.
Programs proven against simulated I/O and inert surrogate material before any site work.
Your licensed agents run real product while we tune controls, then documentation and backups are handed over.
| Responsibility | Geek Engineering | Licensee or specialist |
|---|---|---|
| Line controls, PLC/HMI and recipes | Designs, programs and tests | Approves and operates |
| Handling, weighing or testing product | Never | Licensed agents only |
| State seed-to-sale reporting (Metrc in Illinois) | Delivers clean line data to your software | Compliance team and validated software |
| Solvent extraction rooms and hazardous-location equipment | Interfaces outside the classified boundary | Extraction vendor, engineer of record and the AHJ |
| HVAC, dehumidification and fertigation equipment | Integrates alarms, trends and interlocks | Equipment vendors and mechanical engineer of record |
| Permits, sealed drawings and installation | Coordinates and documents | Licensed PE and licensed contractors |
We do not publish fixed prices: these are the factors that determine effort. A scoped proposal follows the technical fit review.
This is not consumer-facing work and not a compliance service. We do not handle, weigh or test product, operate the state tracking system, make reporting decisions, design hazardous-location extraction equipment, or take over an equipment vendor's warranty. Licensed contractors install, and a licensed professional engineer seals drawings wherever a jurisdiction requires it.
Last reviewed by Geek Engineering senior engineering review.
No published ones. We apply packaging automation, controls and data-integration capability that is documented elsewhere on this site, and we state that before any proposal. If your vendor selection requires cannabis references, that is a fair requirement, and we will tell you early if we cannot meet it.
Not directly from us: we do not connect to Metrc or hold credentials. The line sends batch, count, weight and label-serial records to your inventory or ERP software, and that software reports to the state under your compliance team's control, which keeps the compliance record with the licensee.
No. Our engineers are not licensed agents. Factory testing uses inert surrogate material, and trials with real product are run by your agents while we watch the controls and tune them.
Usually weight verification and labeling, ahead of filling. A short study of weights, rejects and labor per station shows where automation pays at your volume, and the roadmap stages the remaining steps as volume grows.
Yes. For builders of fillers, weighers, pre-roll and labeling machines we can take on control design, recipe structure and the data interface a licensee's inventory software needs, so each machine ships with documentation its buyer's compliance team can review.
Only outside the classified area. Equipment inside a hydrocarbon or ethanol extraction room needs a hazardous-location rating and approval from your authority having jurisdiction. We connect listed extraction systems to plant monitoring through their approved signals and document those interfaces for the engineer of record.
Line control, accumulation and full-line commissioning for packaging lines.
Cooking, depositing and cooling controls that also apply to infused edibles.
Getting line counts and weights into business systems without re-keying.
PLC, HMI and SCADA engineering behind every line project.
Which packaging steps to automate first, and what each needs.
Send your equipment list, layout and what is holding the line back. We will say what we would engineer first, and say plainly if it is outside our scope.
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