Robotic Flexible Food Manufacturing System (RFFMS)

机器人柔性食品制造系统（RFFMS）

基本信息

批准号：
102778
负责人：
金额：
$ 80万
依托单位：
OLYMPUS AUTOMATION LIMITED
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Collaborative R&D
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=102778
关键词：
Robotic Flexible Food Manufacturing System

项目摘要

Traditional soup, sauces and other liquid based product manufacturing often depends on electronic and / or paper based control systems whilst using large stationary cooking kettles (500 to 3000Kg) requiring pipe and manual handling transfer systems for moving ingredients and finished product from process to process. Consequently, this leads to variable product quality and results in considerable waste and high energy usage. Olympus Automation Ltd (OAL) intends to address these costly issues through developing a robotic flexible food manufacturing system with fully integrated digitised process control. With the help of an Innovate UK grant OAL and its project partners, will design and develop the technically difficult and innovative software and hardware systems required to achieve the project’s overall objective. The food manufacturing will incorporate the development of OAL’s highly innovative APRIL (Automated Processing Robotic Ingredient Loading) system that combines state of the art cooking and materials handling technologies with automated robotic ingredient loading, utilising smaller 750Kg vessels. The integrated system will produce higher quality food with unprecedented flexibility, more consistently and faster with greatly reduced ingredient wastage and energy costs, whilst taking up to 50% less factory space. The system and testing will be located in a dedicated food processing hall at the University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing at Holbeach.

传统的汤，调味料和其他基于液体的产品制造通常取决于电子和 /或基于纸张的控制系统，同时使用大型固定烹饪水壶（500至3000kg），需要管道和手动处理传输系统，以将插入量转移到过程中。因此，这导致了可变的产品质量，并导致大量浪费和高能量使用。 Olympus Automation Ltd（OAL）打算通过开发具有完全集成的数字化工艺控制的机器人柔性食品制造系统来解决这些昂贵的问题。借助Innovate UK Grant Oal及其项目合作伙伴，将设计和开发实现项目总体目标所需的技术困难，创新的软件和硬件系统。食品制造将结合OAL高度创新性的四月（自动加工机器人成分加载）系统，该系统结合了最先进的烹饪状态和材料处理技术与自动机器人成分负载，并利用较小的750kg船只。综合系统将生产具有前所未有的灵活性的更高质量的食物，更加一致，更快，而成分降低和能源成本也大大减少，同时占用了工厂空间高达50％。该系统和测试将位于林肯大学国家食品制造中心的专用食品加工大厅中。