Packaging frozen foods with Fanuc Packaging Robots

Robots that were once only used in the auto­mo­bile and oth­er sim­i­lar indus­tries have made a switch over the last decade or so, mov­ing into areas like the food and bev­er­age indus­try. One com­pa­ny, Fanuc, has an entire line of pack­ag­ing robots fit for pack­ag­ing food.

Food man­u­fac­tur­ers are con­stant­ly in search of new ways to auto­mate their food pack­ag­ing sys­tem using robot­ics. These com­pa­nies tend to use robots like the Fanuc spi­der pack­ag­ing robot, a par­al­lel-link robot that has four axes.

Some of the sys­tems used to pack­age these foods, espe­cial­ly frozen foods, are treat­ed with spe­cial coat­ings to help them weath­er the ele­ments they work in, so that the Fanuc robot­ic pack­agers are not dam­aged by the cold. Fanuc pack­ag­ing robots like those in the M series often work in pairs in robot­ic work­cells to pack­age food on pro­duc­tion lines.

Robot­ic Fanuc pack­agers use the Pick­Tool soft­ware to locate bags of frozen fruit and veg­eta­bles on con­vey­ors, the web­site stat­ed. These pack­ag­ing robots can then pick up the frozen foods and place their bags into a case, pack­ag­ing them for trans­port. When these Fanuc pack­ag­ing robot­ic sys­tems work in pairs, one robot will usu­al­ly pick up every oth­er bag, leav­ing the bags that go by for the sec­ond robot to pack­age, keep­ing an exact count so every case gets the same amount.

By using robot­ic pack­agers from Fanuc, man­u­fac­tur­ers in the food indus­try can cut down on work­er error when pack­ag­ing their prod­ucts, which will them boost their rep­u­ta­tion among their customers.

Robots​.com has sev­er­al Fanuc pack­ag­ing robots avail­able for pur­chase and cus­tomiza­tion. Cus­tomers can either pur­chase a sin­gle robot­ic sys­tem for pack­ag­ing, or they can pur­chase one or mul­ti­ple robots to be laid out in a workcell.

For more infor­ma­tion on automat­ing your pack­ag­ing process­es with Robots​.com, con­tact us today online or at 877−762−6881.