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Robots in food industry This is how fully automated testing of donuts is achieved

Source: Teledyne Dalsa | Translated by AI 3 min Reading Time

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With a fully automated test plant for the production of donuts, Fanuc, Vision On Line, and Teledyne Dalsa demonstrate how efficient processes in the food industry and other sectors can be through the use of robot and image processing systems.

Images from an area camera of the type Genie Nano by Teledyne Dalsa are used at the second image processing station to check the color, the complete shape, and the toppings of the donuts with all their variations from above.(Image: Teledyne Dalsa)
Images from an area camera of the type Genie Nano by Teledyne Dalsa are used at the second image processing station to check the color, the complete shape, and the toppings of the donuts with all their variations from above.
(Image: Teledyne Dalsa)

They have a brown, pink, or light glaze, are topped with sprinkles, another topping, or no topping at all: They are just plastic dummy donuts that run along the conveyor belt of the simulation facility of a donut production at the Fanuc site in Meinerzhagen. However, the facility also works with real baked goods, Christian Schulte, Manager Sales West Germany Sales Center of Fanuc, is confident: "With this simulation of a fully automated production in the food industry, we represent the complete process from the baking process through glazing and topping of donuts to the packaging of the finished food. Our robots automatically perform recurring tasks such as placing the approved donuts into the packaging, thus enabling extremely efficient processes."

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