RobotGrader
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RobotGrader Robust technology that offers clear opportunities • Increase your yield of packed, saleable product by cutting giveaway 80-90% • Save labour in your pre-sealing styling and packing operations by 75% • Speed up activities that may be failing to keep pace with your processing • Eliminate considerable work-station space, increasing your return on floorspace (RoF) • Improve hygiene without imposing time or downtime penalties • Avoid increased changeover downtime while reaping the full benefits of automation • Increase the number of services you can offer your customers without increasing cost • Achieve all the above without investing in overly complex or unproven technology Best accuracy, least labour for fixed-weight retail packs Working with you every step of the way Our extensive R&D investment is directed at meeting the challenges of the fast-changing food industry around the globe. We aim to support our partners fully, from the very start of the buying process, and you will find many equipment brochures, visual animations and case studies available on our website. When you are ready to make contact, a well-resourced network of Ishida companies, distributors and agents, extending across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, can provide advice and organise demonstrations and trials. Installation is rapid and efficient. For integrated packing lines, we use proven project management techniques and methodologies, tuned to your key objectives and specifications. A dedicated pan-European service engineering team helps to maximise the performance, functionality and reliability of our installed base. In addition, spares facilities are strategically placed throughout the territory, offering 24-hour delivery in most cases. RobotGrader Dramatically improved yields and efficiency in the packing of fresh food pieces In the poultry industry, the filling of packs of two or more pieces of product to a fixed weight has resisted efficient automation for too long. Even at two pieces per pack, trained workers find it difficult to fill more than nine or ten packs per minute. To be sure of meeting weight regulations, overfill can be anywhere from 5% to 20%. Major manual intervention has been needed to keep pace with the modern processing of poultry products that nowadays can be moving at over 450 birds per minute. One particular task is the packing of the pieces in the correct orientation, ensuring no product protrudes into the seal area. This involves the expertise often referred to as ‘styling’. RobotGrader by Ishida solves all of these problems at a stroke. It harnesses the power of sector-specific algorithms developed over many years of packing poultry to modern robot technology, accurate dynamic weighing and reliable orientation checking. The result is a near-continuous process packing up to 320 pieces per minute with giveaway of less than 1%, with a workforce reduced to just a few operators. The (robot) hand is faster than the eye A wide choice of communication and remote control interfaces RobotGrader is communications-friendly and readily integrates with ERP and control systems. For example fillet weight, retail pack rate, crate weight, giveaway and repack rate per line can be passed to your favourite software for presentation exactly as you want them. All settings (robots, package specification, dynamic weighing and more) can be adjusted from a control centre. The gripper has been specially designed to grasp each piece firmly but gently and to orientate it correctly, position it over the right part of the tray and release it, all within a fraction of a second. Discharge into the tray takes place cleanly and decisively, thanks to a special positive outwards pressure element that operates as the gripper opens. helpline • spares • service • training The mechanical reliability of the gripper is such that it can operate 5 million pick-andrelease cycles between services. Ishida Europe Limited Kettles Wood Drive Woodgate Business Park Birmingham B32 3DB United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)121 607 7700 Fax: +44 (0)121 607 7888 info@ishidaeurope.com

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What the RobotGrader can do for your packing operations The solution that turns a problem into a profit Cutting giveaway down to size Robotic arm The RobotGrader takes product from your upstream processing or cutting areas and delivers trays accurately filled to target weights and ready for problem-free sealing. The all-stainless-steel robot picks up each piece, orients it perfectly with the tray, then places it in the correct place within the tray. Using the information from the orientation detector it will, for example, place one chicken drumstick with the thicker end facing the travel...

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