Gulfood Manufacturing Highlights Robots in Food Processing

Gulfood Manufacturing 2016 (November7-9, Dubai World Trade Centre) is set to showcase trends impacting the way manufacturers formulate, process and move food or beverage.

Among solutions that will help achieve these food production trends are robots, introduced as “your new best friends in food processing”. Food manufacturing has grown into rather complex processes involving preparing, cooking, sorting, packaging and palletizing.  Industrial food robots are increasingly being integrated for food manufacturing in order to save time and space, as well as improving cleanliness and safety. 

Food manufacturing robots are commonly used in the dispensing, feed placement, packaging or casing of food, pick-and-placing products into containers, and sorting.  Newer developments also allow for order picking, where an employee or customer is able to place an order electronically, and the food robot automatically fills that specific order.

For the packaging of food items, where speed, consistency or high levels of repetition are concerned, the food robot almost always wins over humans in terms of efficiency.   Robots are equipped with intelligent vision systems allowing the very specific placement of products on a belt to be done with incredible accuracy. Vision system robots are also utilized in sorting by color, shape or size.

Over 1,500 global suppliers of latest ingredients processing, packaging and logistics solutions are expected at Gulfood Manufacturing.