Evolution of standalone lamb chine machine to develop dual purpose lamb/mutton chine/flap machine

This project aimed to expand the capabilities of the chine system into mutton whilst extracting and implementing the flap cutting station by developing standalone vision and sensing and increasing the flap station capability to process mutton and lamb simultaneously.

As a result of this project a flap and chine machine has been developed and trialled. Good results have been achieved across a wide range of lamb and mutton product however it has been found that the capability to process the full range of mutton shapes and sizes still requires some further development work.