It is understood that in order to promote the development of food industrialization, Anhui Bengbu City has set up the “Investment Plan for Key Industrial Projects in Bengbu City in 2018” with the project construction as the starting point, and encourages food enterprises to carry out intelligent information transformation and upgrading. The robotic food companies give 15%-20% of robotic equipment purchase subsidies. So, what areas of the food industry are currently developing and applying robots?
Purchase subsidies? Robots in these fields are developed and applied
Processing - software robot
It is understood that a professor at Harvard University has cooperated with the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a new 'soft robot', which is made entirely of compliant elastic polymer. Compared with robots made of rigid materials, soft robots are flexible. It has great advantages, making it easy to complete some challenges. This is a breakthrough in the field of robotics. According to industry insiders, by using special materials and artificial intelligence, this kind of 'soft robot' can be as flexible as human hands. Master the items.
Food processing and packaging machinery manufacturing is an important industry that provides technical equipment for the food industry. In recent years, with the rise in labor, materials, energy and other factors of production, the production costs of food processing industry companies are also rising. Robotics applications Promoting semi-automatic and automated production in the food processing sector is an irreversible trend.
Sorting - Sorting Robot
The sorter is mainly applied to the production lines of vegetables, chocolate, biscuits, bread, etc., to classify and sort the appearance quality of the food. It is understood that Hubei Yuguo Mushroom Industry Co., Ltd. 4 sorting mushroom robots 'on-the-job', these robots Through the camera's 'eyes', it takes only 0.8 seconds to accurately identify the size, shape, pattern of the mushroom, and distinguish different kinds of mushrooms such as white mushroom, camellia mushroom, and mushroom.
Compared with manual sorting, the sorting robot not only improves production efficiency, reduces labor intensity, further reduces labor costs, but also ensures product sorting safety, hygiene, ensuring product quality consistency, and improving the company's economy. benefit.
Packaging - packaging robot
Packaging machinery is becoming more and more automated, mechanized and intelligent, and robots as a highly competitive technology for automation technology are suitable for repetitive, rapid, accurate, and dangerous work. In the food and beverage industry, the sorting process mainly considers efficiency issues. The larger the difficulty factor is the packaging. It is necessary to accurately place the scattered items in the bag or the package. This not only tests the flexibility and accuracy of the robot, but also requires the robot to have visual and computable functions.
At present, the robots that package this process mainly include robots for bagging, packing, filling, packaging and transportation. Among them, the packaging and conveying robot has changed the traditional bottle conveying mechanism, which makes the transportation speed faster, the conveying space is reduced, and it is one. A new concept of packaging robots that achieves its transport operations by means of aerodynamics and special mechanical components.
Palletizing - palletizing robot
In recent years, the replacement of traditional mechanical palletizing by robotic palletizing has been a trend. The use of robots for palletizing has been widely used in the food processing industry, such as liquid milk, cold drinks, jelly, chocolate pie, etc. The use of robots is fast, efficient, and can carry heavier items, which greatly saves labor costs.
Palletizing robots have strong operational flexibility and are usually located at the rear end of the production line to process materials on the production line instead of manual palletizing. Palletizing robots mainly include Cartesian robots, articulated robots and polar coordinate robots. , It can be adapted to carton, bag, canned, box, bottle and other packaging products of various shapes.
Handling - handling robot
Compared with palletizing, handling is to transport the packaged product to a designated location. Usually, this location is at a certain distance from the packaging production line, so the mobile handling robot becomes a good helper for transportation.
It is understood that AGV robot is a flexible and intelligent logistics handling robot, which has been widely used in food and beverage enterprises, especially in the dairy and beverage industry. Usually, handling is the last link of packaging, mainly connecting finished products and shipping. Link, therefore, this link is very demanding on manpower and efficiency, and the flexibility of handling robots plays an important role in it.
Xiaobian conclusion:
In order to change from 'manufacturing big country' to 'manufacturing power country', China has vigorously implemented the 'Made in China 2025' program, actively promoting the automation and informationization of the development of intelligent manufacturing. Among them, encouraging food enterprises to carry out intelligent information transformation and upgrading. Improve the manufacturing advantages of the food industry, achieve food processing, reduce costs and improve efficiency. I believe that with the development of the food industry, and the relevant departments actively promote and purchase subsidies, food robots will be further popularized.