The robots use high definition cameras and sensor technology to allow for equipment to be remotely assessed for maintenance and for preventative analysis.
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Robot screens bacteria in wine samples
A robotic liquid handling system at the AWRI is automating the screening of large numbers of malolactic bacteria strains.
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Uncaged robots: all the rage right now
There’s an apparent explosion of interest in smaller, safer, easy-to-program robots for manufacturers.
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Advances in aseptic packaging
Developments in aseptic packaging are bringing substantial efficiency benefits for the food and beverage processing industry.
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Four benefits of automation
Automation introduces value-building advantages along the supply chain – from the field, to the plant, and to the consumer.
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Haigh’s Chocolates to install an interactive production robot
Haigh’s Chocolates will be the first in Australia to install a Baxter robot, designed make automation accessible and affordable.
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Low-cost electronic tongue developed to ensure food safety
Researchers have developed a new low-cost electronic tongue designed to ensure quality in food and beverage products.
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Food delivery robots mark new era for hospital catering
WA’s Fiona Stanley Hospital will feature free-roaming food delivery robots when its opens next week.
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Robots: boosting efficiency and safety for small manufacturers
Industrial robots have long excelled at the kind of manually repetitive tasks that employees can find undesirable.
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Business has never been better: Mrs Mac’s Pies
Business is booming at Mrs Mac’s Pies which is currently trialling a new robotic production line, and is also hopeful of entering the Russian market, with a shipment of pies currently on its way to Moscow.
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$12m robot dairy for “Gen-Y cows”
Northcliffe-based dairy, Bannister Downs, is working on a $12 million automatic milking operation that is expected to be the most modern robot dairy in Australia.
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Schneider helps take the guesswork out of cheesemaking [video]
Schneider Electric is offering cheese manufacturers the ability to improve their process control and product quality with its PlantStruxure technology.
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How investing in logistics can lift your standards
Whether you're running a small food manufacturing business or a large scale distribution operation, logistics matters. By Aoife Boothroyd.
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The ultimate iron chef – when 3D printers invade the kitchen
Printing food seems more like an idea based in Star Trek rather than in the average home. But recent advances in 3D printing (known formally as additive manufacturing) are driving the concept closer to reality.
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Six reasons to adopt automated label applicators
Automated label applicators, though not new to the market place, have become increasingly important for businesses striving for speed, precision and efficiency.
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Robots could replace farm workers
If a research project from the University of Sydney has its way, robots will be replacing farm workers in the next five to 10 years.
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3D printing a new opportunity for food manufacturers? [video]
A US husband and wife team has capitalised on society's growing interest in 3D printing, establishing The Sugar Lab, which designs, digitally models and prints sugar sculptures.
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Inside Forst’s brand new brewery [images]
After 40 years and 25 million hectolitres of beer, European brewer Forst needed something new to get up-to-date with modern energy requirements and emissions considerations. It designed an entirely new brewery, and cut costs while doing it.
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Why the Australian manufacturing industry needs the next generation of robots
Amid the gloom about the prospects for manufacturing in Australia, and the difficulties facing an economy dominated by small businesses, there is some cause for optimism — a new generation of lightweight, assistive robots.
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