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motion plastics for automation in the catering industry
Automate services in restaurants and cafés with robotics, bearing technology, and e-chains
Automation in the catering industry, also known as kitchen automation or food service automation, can cover all activities from the selection of ingredients to the preparation and serving of food and drinks to customers. room linear robots take ingredients from the shelf, while cooking robots process them. Barista robots remove and serve the freshly prepared coffee. And delta robots assemble a burger using pick & place.
The rotary, swivelling and linear movements in all these processes are ensured by bearings, gears and robotic components. These so-called motion plastics are simple to implement, maintenance-free to operate and cost-effective to realise.
What would you like to automate?
Removal and dispensing
How are ingredients presented safely and precisely for further processing? How does the baked item get from a shelf to the sales counter? One possible solution is gantry robots, which move to the correct position on a shelf like a storage and retrieval unit in logistics, pick up the product and transport it to the dispensing position. In addition to being lubricant-free and resistant to contamination, the precision and maintenance-free nature of the gantry also make the difference in this process.
Buy or build your own robot gantry systems
- Dirt-resistant, as no lubrication is required
- Quick and easy assembly
- Up to 30 kg load capacity, 0.5 mm precision and 1.5 m/s speed
Success stories: Withdrawal and issue
Preparation
Preparation is at the centre of kitchen automation. In addition to cooking robots, there are also so-called delta robots, which assemble the prepared ingredients piece by piece using pick & place. For example, a burger is created from a bun, mustard and ketchup, burger patty, cheese and salad completely automatically.
The top priority here is compliance with hygiene guidelines. Food must not be contaminated by machine components such as robot arms, bearings and gears. Completely lubrication- and maintenance-free motion plastic is the solution here. Designed as modular building block systems, fast and uncomplicated automation can be achieved.
delta robot for food applications
- 660 mm working chamber diameter with 180 mm working chamber height
- Self-lubricating and maintenance-free drylin® ZLW toothed belt axes
- Ready for connection with stepper motor and D1 dryve motor controller
Success stories: Preparation
Transport and serving
How the prepared meal is delivered to the customer is primarily determined by the distance the product has travelled. A so-called barista robot, for example, can be sufficient to transport a coffee cup from the machine to a nearby counter. Flexibility plays just as important a role here as suitability for handling food. If longer distances need to be covered in a restaurant, linear systems on which the food trays are systematically transported to a specific table are suitable.
Barista robots: buy complete systems or build them yourself
- High flexibility: freely selectable end effectors with 2-5 degrees of freedom (DOF)
- Design and simulate online, including parts list
- With or without motors, with or without control system
Success stories: Transport and serving
RBTX: For providers and customers of robotics components.
RBTX® - The online platform for robotic components
The RBTX® platform brings users and suppliers of low-cost robotic components together quickly and easily. Users can find gantries, robot arms, end effectors, camera modules, control systems and much more centrally in one place - and can find individual components or assemble entire robots.
At the same time, suppliers of robotic components can use the RBTX® marketplace to market their products to a larger audience in a targeted and convenient way.
Tested for real use in the test laboratory
All products are tested for wear and load-bearing capacity under real conditions in the igus® test laboratory, the largest in the industry. The results are fed into our tools for calculating service life and enable precise predictions to be made about durability.
Upon request, igus® also carries out customer tests to test the use of the products under very individual conditions.
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