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FANUC America Authorized System Integrator Smart Motion Robotics developed this automated system to utilize a series of FANUC robots for fast and efficient cutting and tray packing of small cakes. With the help of these reliable FANUC M-10iA/10S short arm robots, 8,000 cakes can be cut and tray packed per hour by two systems.
Cakes enter the system hot out of the oven, traveling down a conveyor and passing through FANUC’s iRVision system, seen here as a red light. FANUC robots locate each cake using iRVision, then pick the cakes and place them onto a platform where the robot performs three cuts with a serrated knife to cut the cake into six slices. The cake is then picked and placed onto a second platform holding a plastic tray. Once in its tray, the cake is ejected to a reverse-direction conveyor, which feeds into a Flow Pack machine.
Smart Motion Robotics developed a custom de-nester that readies the next tray. There are two systems of eight robots in each system, which are operationally self-contained with a built-in 20% system failsafe. FANUC iRVision tracks the cakes and allocates them to each FANUC robot equally. Both systems combined are capable of processing over 8,000 cakes per hour. All of the tooling and system hardware was designed and built by Smart Motion Robotics. The robots even clean their own knives. The system is easy to maintain, and trays are fed into the de-nester from outside the cell. To learn more about this system and more from Smart Motion Robotics, please visit www.smartmotion.com.