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Food industry applications

Food processing robots

When your equipment operates at high throughput and efficiency, performance can be compromised by frequent manual intervention. The most effective solutions incorporate dedicated yet flexible automation to help minimize process interruption. In addressing this issue, our customers in the food industry have come to expect the highest performing robotic solutions, with industrial robots built to handle a range of applications from upstream processing, sorting and packing through end of line palletization.

Features

Benefits

Better process control 

Easy to clean robot, minimum retention areas, connection protection

High reliability, high speed 

Increased productivity

High dexterity, several mounting positions 

Compact cell, less room required, simpler mechanical solution

Cleanliness 

Better hygiene

Flexibility 

Marketing innovative products and packaging

Vision and conveyor tracking 

Product picked and controlled in process, in any position

Applications

Curd slicing

Robot for slicing
Curd slicing
  • Automatic choice of slicing tools
  • Complex trajectories 
  • Eliminate hazards in wet environments
  • Improved slicing output

Sausage packing

Food packaging
Sausage packing
  • Picking ”in-flight”
  • Pick of several sausages at once
  • Triple shift production rate
  • 850 kg of hot dogs per hour
  • Improved hygeine

Grated cheese bag packaging

Cheese packaging
Grated cheese bag packaging
  • Metal detection check
  • Weighing
  • Quality control
  • Optimization of packaging in the box

Doypack sachet packaging

Robot for packaging
Doypack sachet packaging
  • High flexibility and optimization of packaging
  • High robot dexterity
  • Packed quantity control

Ultrasonic cheese slicing

Slcing robots
Ultrasonic cheese slicing
  • Exact weight, half-round portioning
  • Automatic tool exchange 
  • Return on investment in18 months
  • Cell productivity: 5 tons per shift

Cheese portion multiplexing

Portion multiplexling robot
Cheese portion multiplexing
  • 12,000 portions/hour
  • Return on investment in less than 6 months 
  • Better hygiene
  • Higher productivity

Palletizing

Pallettizing robot
Palletizing
  • 2 palletizing lines
  • 5 robots (RX175L line)
  • 60 formats, 27 boxes/min.
  • Weights: from 1 to 15 kg
  • Automatic identification
  • Automatic pallet supply