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Food Processing
Handling packaging and process automation built for a food production environment
Industry Pain Points
What Makes This Sector Difficult to Automate
Delkotech's published customer base includes food industries.
Cleanability is a design constraint
Materials, finishes and access have to support cleaning. Equipment designed without that becomes the hardest thing in the plant to clean.
The back end sets the rate
A fast process feeding manual packing runs at the speed of the packing bench.
Changeover frequency
Food plants change format often. An undesigned changeover costs more per week than most rate improvements deliver.
Product damage in handling
Handling designed for engineering components damages product, and damaged product is scrap rather than rework.
What Customers Need
Requirements We Design Against
- Materials and finishes specified for the production environment
- Access that allows cleaning without dismantling
- Packaging automation sized to the process feeding it
- Changeover designed and timed as part of the specification
- Gentle product contact designed for the product, not inherited from industrial practice
Typical Applications
Where Delkotech Equipment Goes In
End of line packing
Collation, closing and palletising sized to the upstream rate.
Format changeover
Change parts and stored recipes so a format change is a timed operation.
Product transfer
Handling between process and packaging with contact materials specified for food.
In line checking
Confirming count and presentation before the pack is closed.
Delivery Capability
What a Project With Us Looks Like
Application study
Your part, operation, rate and floor space are recorded from the real production, not from a nominal case.
Concept and layout
A machine concept with the layout, cycle estimate and safety approach, priced against a defined scope.
Design
Mechanical, electrical, controls and safety designed together, with the sequence of operation written before any code.
Build and try out
Manufactured at Vaughan, then dry cycled, run with your parts and run to rate before it ships.
Installation and handover
Installed, interfaced and commissioned, with operator and maintenance training and the as built documentation.
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Questions
Food Processing Questions
Do you have experience in food processing?
Delkotech's published customer base includes food industries. What we build for this sector is shown in the equipment and projects linked from this page.
Which machine should we start with?
Start from the operation that is costing you, not from the machine type. The four scenarios on this page are the ones that come up most often in this sector.
Can equipment be specified for our environment?
Yes. Materials, finishes, contact surfaces and access are specified at design review against the environment the machine will live in rather than assumed from general industrial practice.
Will the machine produce records we can show a customer?
Where the process needs evidence, counts, process values and test results can be recorded and made available to your plant systems. The data contract is agreed with your IT group before software is written.
What do you need to quote a project for us?
Part drawings and real samples, the operation, the rate, the floor space and the equipment either side. Email [email protected] and we will come back with a concept.
Talk to an engineer
Bring Us a Food Processing Problem
Describe the operation that is costing you rate, accuracy or labour. We will tell you what a machine can and cannot do about it.