Food & Drink Automation
Food & Drink Automation – Consumers continually seek new and different tastes and nutritional value, meaning you must get new, high-quality products through your facility quickly to keep prices low and food safer. We design and build food and beverage manufacturing automation systems to help food and beverage manufacturers develop a more agile response to changing consumer tastes by leveraging smart manufacturing to revolutionize the way food and beverage manufacturers operate. We provide access to relevant, real-time information. Information-enabled manufacturing allows you to combat your biggest challenges:
- Improve yield
- Drive productivity
- Mitigate security risks
- Optimise resource management
- Enhance asset utilisation
An example of one of our food and beverage manufacturing automation projects is a machine that was designed to accept trays of eight shortbread rounds. After clamping the tray, a vision system locates the position of the rounds on the tray and relays the positions to a suitably tooled ABB 6-axis fully articulated robot, which cuts the rounds into “Petticoat Tails”. After cutting, the trays were conveyed and transferred to a return conveyor where the product passes under a sugar sifter prior to the operator removing the processed tray and returning it to a rack.
Our systems have also included automated solutions for blue-chip companies in the dairy, whisky and fish processing industry, providing unique solutions, including automatic inspection systems, palletising machines, and filling and capping machines, to name but a few. To learn more about our food and drink automation, get in touch today.
