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Food & beverage is our bread & butter. Contact us today to put our experience in robots in food & beverage industry to work for you.
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Dedicated Robot Solutions to Make Your Factory Process More Efficient

Automating your food or beverages production facilities is easier than you might think. Specifically for food processing automation delivers consistently better quality, improves picking and handling times and increases output by speeding up packaging processes. The net results are lower costs and greater competitive scope. What is more, intelligent specialised automation also allows you to respond flexibly to today’s competitive market dynamics and the ever-changing demands of the food manufacturing industry.

No matter what your factory process, we're focussed on helping you come up with the best solution to improve your productivity. By sharing our knowledge of production processes and automated solutions, we'll show you what's possible and where you can improve.

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Robots for Primary Food Processing & Handling

Food safety is key when it comes to primary food handling. That’s why FANUC has designed food-grade robots equipped with food-grade grease and special finishes and features perfect for these applications. FANUC’s food-grade robots are designed to help mitigate the risk of any food safety issue and can withstand frequent and rigorous washdowns while maximising speed and versatility in primary food processing. These robots range from 550mm - 1853mm in reach and include both IP67 and IP69K rated models. Explore our food-grade robot models below.

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Robots for Secondary Food & Beverage Handling

Automating secondary food and beverage processing and packaging helps optimise your production by ramping up throughput while overcoming labor challenges. Whether it’s palletising or picking and packing – FANUC has robot and cobot solutions to automate many manual tasks enabling your food manufacturing operations to stay nimble and competitive. Discover some of the ready-to-order variants from the wide range of robot families.

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FANUC Automation for the Food Industry

FANUC's automation solutions empower the food industry with unparalleled efficiency and precision. Our applications include Depalletising, Line Charging, Packaging Production, Picking, Handling, Processing, Packing, and Palletising improve safety in food production processes.

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Depalletising

Line Charging

Packaging Production

Picking

Handling

Processing

Packing

Palletising

Front of Line Automation

Optimise your value chain right from the very start of the production process using FANUC front-of-line automation. Whether it's depalletising, loading, line charging or even thermo forming your packaging with an injection moulding machine, any number of tasks can easily be automated to help you improve your food manufacturing processes and lower your costs. 

Depalletising

Industrial robots provide an incredibly efficient way of handling goods at different stages of the production process.

Line Charging

No matter what you process, the sheer versatility of automated solutions means getting your raw materials onto the production line is easier than you might think.

Packaging Production

FANUC ROBOSHOT is a versatile CNC injection moulding machine that can be used to produce packaging onsite.

Automating Handling, Processing and Picking

Food and beverage producers need to keep up with current trends. Automating pick, place, handling, processing or sorting tasks, not only enables you to optimise your production processes but also to react flexibly to new developments, thus staying ahead of the competition. This can be further enhanced by the use of smart visual recognition technology and sensor systems. 

Picking

FANUC's robots and cobots are built with maximum repeatability for more precise, efficient, and sustainable automated picking solutions.

Handling

Safely handle secondary or primary food with dedicated food and clean room robots equipped with food-grade grease and special coatings.

Processing

Gain more flexibility automating your food processing applications with FANUC robots and cobots.

End of Line Automation

Automating the end of your production line increases your flexibility, enabling you to react quickly to the trends and challenges involved in providing intelligent and secure good-quality packing, storage and logistics. Wrapping, labelling, packing and palletising all involve strenuous and repetitive manual work – something that can easily be done by automated systems for optimised, cost-effective results. 

Packing

Enhance efficiency, precision, and hygiene, ensuring faster, consistent, and contaminant-free packaging processes with FANUC.

Palletising

FANUC offers the industry's most complete range of palletising robots and cobots designed and built to deliver high duty and the world’s fastest cycle times.

Benefits

Benefits for your Industry

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Enhanced Hygiene

FANUC robots and cobots ensure a high level of cleanliness by minimising human contact with food products, reducing contamination risks.
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High-Speed Operations

Robots can perform tasks at high speeds, significantly increasing production rates and meeting high-demand periods, typical of the industry.
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Flexibility and Versatility

FANUC robots and cobots can easily adapt to different tasks, product types, and packaging requirements, providing versatile solutions.
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Consistent Quality

Our robots provide precise and consistent handling, packaging, and processing, ensuring uniform product quality.
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Increased Competitiveness

Implementing robotics technology can give food companies a competitive edge by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing product quality.
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Enhanced Product Integrity

Gentle handling by robots preserves the integrity and quality of delicate food items during processing and packaging.
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Compliance with Regulations

Robots help maintain compliance with food safety standards and regulations, ensuring that production meets industry requirements.
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High Precision to Reduce Waste

Precise control and handling minimise product damage and waste, contributing to cost savings and sustainability.
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Improved Safety

Automation reduces the need for manual labor to carry hasardous, repetitive and heavy tasks, enhancing worker safety.
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Traceability and Data Collection

Integrated IIoT solutions allow for real-time monitoring and data collection, enhancing traceability and process optimisation.
Case Studies
FANUC palletizing robot operating in the food industry. Success story about FANUC's excellent customer service, technical support and training, required for high-level robotisation projects at Elsa Group (a Swiss expert in the manufacture and packaging of dairy products)
Elsa Group

Elsa Group is Top of the Food Chain With FANUC Service

Specifying and acquiring an industrial robot is often a company’s first step on its journey to an automated future based on higher productivity and repeatability. However, partnering with a robot vendor that is able to offer the highest levels of customer support is paramount in order to achieve complete project success, from commissioning and training to machine service and maintenance.

The milling company Lindmühle uses a FANUC M-710iC six-axis articulated arm robot for an automated solution where 5 to 25 kg bags of flour are stacked automatically and each bag is weighed. Not only has the FANUC robot relieved workers at Lindmühle from the physical strain of lifting 5 to 25 kg flour bags onto pallets, but it has also helped the company achieve a 50% increase in its palletising capacity.
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FANUC Robot Raises Palletising Capacity at Flour Plant

Taking the strain in heavy lifting operations is a classic application for industrial robots. However, implementing robots in lifting tasks not only provides physical relief to workers, it also has the potential to boost throughput, even where space is limited. Flour manufacturer Lindmühle is a case in point, where FANUC simulation software highlighted the optimal robot for the available working envelope.

Success story about successful implementation of a FANUC cobot at the company WIESHEU (food industry). FANUC collaborative robot CRX-10iA/L takes the buns from a crate, sorts them onto a baking tray and pushes the trays into shelves for baking. The CRX also tips the baked rolls from the tray into sales racks.
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FANUC Relieves the Heat for In-store Bakeries

With the FANUC cobot-based system, in-store bakeries can elevate their productivity in a safe and reliable way. The automated system provides an effective way to increase productivity and reduce costs in repetitive product handling applications.

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