Automate the loading of food product
from a separate conveyor system into the foil pockets of a vacuum TiromatTM
conveyor system (food product is packaged as MRE's - Meals Ready to
Eat - for the DOD - Dept. of Defense):
Achieve high speed cycle rate of 60
pockets per minute
Reject product that is miss-shaped
(too large or small or broken into bits)
Solution:
Robotic Food Packaging System
A robotic food packaging system with a
high speed 4 axis SCARA - Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm -
that is clean room certified for the Food & Drug industry:
Integrated Machine Vision system
with conveyor tracking determines orientation and down stream
position of food product as it is moving on the conveyor
Unique stainless steel end effector
can grab and release any shape food product into the foil pockets
at high speed without damaging either
