Advantages of Robots in Food Manufacturing

Food man­u­fac­tur­ing has grown into rather com­plex process­es involv­ing prepar­ing, cook­ing, sort­ing, pack­ag­ing and pal­letiz­ing. Indus­tri­al food ser­vice robots are increas­ing­ly being inte­grat­ed in order to save time and space, as well as improv­ing clean­li­ness and safety. 

Food man­u­fac­tur­ing robots are com­mon­ly used in the dis­pens­ing, feed place­ment, cut­ting, pack­ag­ing or cas­ing of food, pick-and-plac­ing prod­ucts into con­tain­ers, and sort­ing. New­er devel­op­ments also allow for order pick­ing, where an employ­ee or cus­tomer is able to place an order elec­tron­i­cal­ly, and the food robot auto­mat­i­cal­ly fills that spe­cif­ic order.

For the pack­ag­ing of food items, where speed, con­sis­ten­cy or high lev­els of rep­e­ti­tion are con­cerned, the food robots almost always win over humans in terms of effi­cien­cy. Robots are equipped with intel­li­gent vision sys­tems allow­ing the very spe­cif­ic place­ment of prod­ucts on a belt to be done with incred­i­ble accu­ra­cy. Vision sys­tem robots are also uti­lized in sort­ing by col­or, shape or size. 

At Robots​.com, we incor­po­rate indus­tri­al robots in numer­ous man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es, includ­ing food. Choos­ing the right robot depends on fac­tors such as pay­load, speed, accu­ra­cy, and vision controls. 

Addi­tion­al­ly, we offer clean room robots that meet spe­cif­ic clean room spec­i­fi­ca­tions for your appli­ca­tion needs:

• Dis­pens­ing Robots
• Pick and Place Robots
• Pal­letiz­ing Robots
• Sort­ing iRVi­sion Robots
• Order Pick­ing Robots
• Clean Room Robots

The robots’ grip and vac­u­um tools have under­gone sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ment. The air­flow vac­u­um tool is ide­al for frag­ile items as it can pick them up with­out touch­ing them. For prod­ucts with uneven sur­faces, the suc­tion cup works best, while the vac­u­um grip­per uses pres­sure dif­fer­ence for fast pick­up. Fin­ger grip­pers work well for cakes with loose par­ti­cles. All tools should be easy to clean, change, and made from suit­able materials.

You can use the con­tact form or call Robots​.com at 877−762−6881 for more infor­ma­tion regard­ing any food man­u­fac­tur­ing robots.