With both the market and competition growing, ‘packaging’ has come to play a vital role in marketing products, be it fruits, fast food or chocolates. This is well reflected in the efforts of a New Zealand’s Massey University researcher working for kiwifruit marketing organisation Zespri.
He has created an amazing automated kiwifruit packing system. The new machine can not just grade kiwifruit to within 0.1 gram, but can also spot blemishing and soft spots! This, at times, an efficient manual selector may miss out. Thanks to the built-in vision system of the packing machine.
The robotic machine will thus definitely be able to reduce packing costs of industries by cutting down on the packing sections or number of labor-heads. It is also efficient in inspecting and packing more consistently! To add to this, its data collecting memory can assist cool-store operators in deciding on which fruits to market and at what time.
But, you don’t need to be disappointed if you want a similar mechanism to work for your other packing units. True, the machine is designed especially for packing kiwifruits; but, it can easily be adapted for packing almost any type of fruit or vegetables as well.
Via: theengineer
