Food safe robot boosts productivity and efficiency
From batch control to a food safe robot, from energy management to direct reporting in to your ERP systems, Mitsubishi Electric offers a wide range of solutions and services that address the challenges of the food and beverage industry – from increasing product diversity, shorter product life cycles and fluctuating order quantities to stricter statutory regulations particularly with respect to hygiene directives.
Take for example the use of a food safe robot in the production area. A food safe robot can be ideal, for instance, in pick-and-place applications. Mitsubishi Electric food safe robot technology helps to increase system flexibility and availability in food and beverage applications. If several products are manufactured, packed or manipulated on one line, production cycles can be designed to be substantially faster and more cost efficient with a space-saving food safe robot and camera system. At the same time a food safe robot ensures the high hygiene requirements of the food and drinks industry are met.
Mitsubishi argues that continuous improvement of production processes and efficiency through the use of advanced technology such as a food safe robot increases cost savings, optimises profit margins and above all guarantees competitiveness in the long term. With a food safe robot operating as part of a wider advanced automation system, the basis of the improvemens is data transparency within networked production, which is easily achieved with standard automation technology. Automation can substantially contribute to the long-term sustainability of new systems, as well as systems which have been expanded over the years.
Production, energy and quality data can be communicated continuously and easily using the MES-IT interface module. In order to do this, production data and test results are recorded during each stage of production, from individual processes to whole production operations, and transferred in real time directly to higher-level systems.
The optimising of machine running times by preventative maintenance is also a major issue in the food processing industry. If a machine suddenly fails, an entire batch is usually lost. This is expensive and damaging to productivity. Modern control platforms, touch screen operating devices, like the Mitsubishi Electric HMI GOT2000 series, and sensors with comprehensive, integrated functionalities as well as flexible maintenance concepts like MAPS, the lifecycle-software solution from Mitsubishi Electric, provide the necessary data transparency for simple implementation of preventative maintenance concepts.
Visit the Mitsubishi Electric website for more information about food safe robot solutions.
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