Especially in recent years, robots have become increasingly important in the
food industry and Transman products have been in use for more than 10 years,
for instance in dairies.
An interesting solution was an application designed in 1994 for a major chicken
producer. The application was reasonably straightforward and entailed palletising
of packed fresh or frozen products. Besides carrying out these operations at
high speed one of the most important features of the application is its capacity
to sort and palletise a seemingly chaotic flow of diverse packages. The sorting
process can even be customer controlled and the pallet loaded with mixed products
or a single product, depending on the order.
Transman applications in this field are primarily characterized not only by
their high capacities but also the intelligence level of routines for communicating
with the main control systems and sorting functions.
As always, in the food industry, there are very high demands on materials with
respect to corrosion resistance and ease of cleaning.