About
The World’s First Automated Corndog System
Founded in 1976 by Glenn Walser, Automated Food Systems answered the need of a food processor who needed a method for automating corn dog production. He had expertise as a mechanical engineer and an idea that everybody else said couldn’t be done. With one investor, he went about developing the first automated corndog system in the world.
Proven Ideas Applied to Diverse Products
We expanded our product offerings in 1999, when we built a machine that automatically assembles kebabs. The machine can be customized to meet any customer’s needs, and operates on a conveyor belt system, with plastic trays that hold the different components of the kebab and can accommodate a variety of stick lengths and food items.
Innovating Food Processing On a Global Scale
Today, AFS designs and manufactures custom automated and manual production systems for corn dogs, kebabs, funnel cakes, batter mixing and pumping, and more. We build world-class food processing and material handling equipment every day. And we pride ourselves on engineering smart, creative solutions for our customers.
Custom Design & Fabrication
Every system we make is custom designed to suit your unique processes and ingredients with robust functionality and simplicity in design at the core. Starting with our innovative skewer insertion technology, our systems are flexible enough to produce an endless amount of styles and adapt to raw material fluctuations. Have a unique food automation challenge? Let AFS custom design a solution.
Have a unique food automation challenge?
Let AFS custom design a solution.
The high-speed KW-2001 skewering system is currently in operation in food processing plants in:
- NORTH AMERICA
- SOUTH AMERICA
- AFRICA
- EUROPE
- ASIA
- AUSTRAILIA
History
1976 Automated Food Systems Opens
1977 PRL-400 Semi-Automated Corn Dog Processing System
1981 Model 123 Sanitary Food Transfer Pump
1983 MM-240 Five-Sack Batter Mixer
1984 PTL-1200 Semi-Automated Corn Dog System
1986 HOP-1300 Semi-Automated Corn Dog System
1987 PTL-1000 Semi-Automated Corn Dog System
1987 MM Jr. One Sack Mixer
1988 PTL-2000 Fully Automated Corn Dog System
1988 Model 200 Sanitary Food Pump
1990 PTL-2100 Fully Automated Corn Dog System
1990 SS-100 Sausage Sticking System
1991 MM-500 Ten Sack Batter Mixer
1991 HOP-100 Manual Corn Dog System
1992 HM-5 Table Top Market-Entry Mixer
1993 CD-3 Table Top Corn Dog System
1993 CD-3 Vendor Cart
1996 PTL 2600 Fully Automated Corn Dog System
1997 MM-750 Fifteen Sack Batter Mixer
2000 KW-2001 High-Speed Skewering System
2000 FC-950 Funnel Cake Fryer and Batter Dispensing System
2001 AFS Premium Wood Skewers