Automation of primal cut bagging

18 November 2019
Focus area: Hands-off processing
Program stream: Advanced manufacturing
Project number: 2018-1049
Meat processing plants suffer significant labour costs and OH&S risks associate with the manual bagging of meat cuts after processing.

This project aims to examine the most effective way of bagging and labelling naked primal cuts, through research and development into automation technologies that could be directly applied to bagging tasks and identify available technologies that might be applied and used as building blocks for the development of an automated bagging system.

A concept design for a fully automated primal cut bagging system was developed with recommendations for future development.
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