High Speed, Machine Vision Guided Pick & Place: Frozen Baked Goods

Interactive Design, Inc. Posted 07/12/2011

Business Situation: 

• Increased demand required a frozen food manufacturing company to expand production
• Existing packaging in-feed loading system was insufficient to load product at the required rate

Automation Requirements:

• Accept frozen product from a freezer conveyor
• Inspect product to determine if each one is within given specifications
• Pick randomly oriented product from the conveyor at high speed and load it into the conveyor at high speed
• Package only the good product

Interactive Design Solution: 

• 8 High Speed Delta Style Robots - to acquire product from the conveyor and place them onto a packaging conveyor
• Custom end of arm tooling & vacuum generation
• Machine vision cameras and dedicated lighting to locate and inspect product 
• Two 17" touch screen operator interface monitors mounted flush into the face of enclosures 
• Custom conveyor system to deliver inbound product to the robot pick area