ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING n products arriving on a second conveyor belt from the opposite direction. Each food-certi ed robot can carry out 80 picks per minute – made possible by the high torque of the fourth axis, known as the “handwheel axis”. The dierent loading con gurations presented a challenge. “The stores order dierent quantities of dierent rolls, and we had to take this into account,” Dunschen explains. The Delta pickers receive the loading con guration per tray via a computer interface, allowing each store’s requirements in terms of the variety and number of rolls, to be met. At the end of the process, the trays and sheets are loaded manually onto trolleys, and prepared for baking or delivery to stores. When the time came for the installation to undergo its acceptance trial, Dunschen admits that he and his team were a little nervous. But after two hours it was clear that Malzers’ requirements were being exceeded. Instead of the speci ed 8,000 dough pieces per hour, the line was processing 9,000. “Since then the production line has run smoothly,”Dunschen reports. Both Malzers and ADM see further potential for automating other parts of the bakery. For example, robots could insert the loaded trays or sheets into the trolleys, or do the preparatory work – removing the dough pieces from bags. “We have already talked about this, but we haven’t thought of a concrete concept yet,”says Dunschen. Meanwhile, ADM is already working with another bakery to automate its production activities. n The Malzers installation can process 9,000 dough pieces per hour – considerably more than the speci ed 8,000 pieces Features Include: Energy Demand Display/Setti In Excess of 300 Communicat OPC UA Server PLC Web Browser t ng tion Drivers i SQL Query Database Server Event Bar Chart WebView sales@lamonde. Q
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