FOOD AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS: FOR IMPROVED FOOD MANUFACTURING AND PACKAGINGPosted by Siya Sharma on April 21st, 2021 The systematic implementation and incorporation of automation and robotic systems will significantly enhance food manufacturing efficiency during unsustainable economic pressures. Food manufacturing has evolved as a vastly complex process, where it covers preparing, cooking, sorting, packaging, and palletizing. To increase production at the facilities, industrial robots are widely adopted to save time, space, cleanliness, and safety. In the food manufacturing units, the robots are usually used in the process of dispensing, feed placement, cutting, packaging, or casing of food, pick-and-placing products into sorting and containers. The advanced developments in food robots result in the remote order of food for picking and sorting to save employees' energy by automatically filling that specific order. Considering the food items' packaging, where consistency, speed, or repetitive productions are concerned, the food robots win over humans in operational and productional efficiency. Automation and robots are installed with great care, such as robots primarily equipped with intelligent vision systems, allowing them to take care of precise product placement on a sorting belt with the highest accuracy. These vision system robots can also be utilized to sort in terms of color, shape, or size. Need of Robots to Improve Individual Manufacturing Process The robots are incorporated in the food sector to initiate the manufacturing proactively and have a clear understanding of various units such as payload, speed, accuracy, and work envelope. To execute the process, the robots carry hold on various operations to meet cleanroom specification, such as robots include –
There has also been further developed in the vacuum and grippers tools used in food robots. The airflow vacuum tool is ideal for handling goods with damageable surfaces because it can pick up products without touching them. The suction cup is perfect for controlling many kinds of products, especially those with an uneven surface, such as biscuits and frozen pizzas. Using pressure difference, the vacuum gripper holds the product by using, which allows for fast pick up. Finger grippers are best used for products that cannot be handled by suction, such as cakes with loose particles on top. All gripper and suction tools should be easy to clean, change over, and made from materials suitable for the application. Engage With US:- engage@pukkapartners.com Like it? Share it! More by this author |