Food industry automation assembly line accelerates innovation

2022/09/19 08:51

The food industry, which has experienced rapid growth, has gradually shifted from focusing on "quantity" to focusing on "quality" under the background of consumption upgrades in recent years. In order to meet the multi-faceted needs of product quality and safety improvement and the overall goal of high-quality development, it has become a fixed situation to promote the automation, digitalization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the production end by introducing a series of food production machinery to carry out technical transformation of the existing factory. Today, the production workshops of many food brands are even more refreshing.

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Nutrition powder and baby food production line:https://www.dayimachinery.com/baby-cereals-making/nutrition-powder-and-0.html

As the saying goes, "people take food as their heaven". From the development of the food processing industry to meet people's basic needs for food and clothing, to the sale of food on the streets and alleys, and then to the emergence of small food workshops and the subsequent food industry blooming, edible oil, cakes, candy, meat processing, and leisure food have been derived. The food industry has become an indispensable part of people's daily life and social and economic development.

But for a long time, the food industry has inevitably faced some problems in the rapid development. For example, there is often a lot of manual participation in the process of food production. The repetitive and tedious processes are relatively simple and labor-intensive. Moreover, the irregular operation process and inattentive personal hygiene may have an impact on the quality of food. This is also the reason why people Special attention points in food consumption, although production is gradually becoming mechanized in the continuous optimization of food production technology, there are still many difficulties in food safety issues. In addition, product innovation under the phenomenon of product homogeneity and capacity improvement under mass production are also a major challenge for the food industry to continue to grow.

With the continuous improvement of people's income level and material living standards, in the transformation of food consumption from "eating well" to "eating well", food production and processing are also developing from pure handmade to semi-mechanized and mechanized. transition. Entering a new era of modernization and development, with the support of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, the development trend of intelligent manufacturing has become increasingly clear. The food processing industry is further moving towards automation, intelligence and digitization. The production workshops of many large-scale food enterprises are more The situation of openness, transparency, neatness and order, and smooth operation of the production line provides a "new model" for the development of the entire industry and points out a new direction.

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Triangle and Doritos Chip Production Line:https://www.dayimachinery.com/crispy-chip/triangle-and-doritos.html

Taking dairy production as an example, as the development model of the whole industry chain integrating forage planting, dairy farming, dairy processing, dairy R&D, cold chain logistics and sales tends to be stable, the upstream supply of high-quality milk sources will be controlled. The storage and transportation of raw milk and quick access to the processing end are bringing new changes to the production of milk powder, fresh milk and other dairy products. Facing the difficult problems of secondary packaging in the processing of diversified dairy products, such as the development and implementation of intelligent packaging production lines for liquid food, and robots that integrate high-speed subcontracting and sorting technology, trapezoidal floating structure suction cup grasping technology, etc. The efficiency, stability and accuracy of tracking, grasping and packaging of dairy products bring about flexible production that can be flexibly changed.

Taking the production of casual snacks as an example, candy, puffed food, etc. were very representative categories processed by small workshops earlier, and they are also foods with development resilience in the growing snack snack industry. In the food industry, they are turning to intelligent production processes. Among them, these seemingly inconspicuous categories that have actually accelerated their transformation and become bigger and stronger are also worthy of attention. For example, a comprehensive food company has now deployed 31 production bases across the country. Surrounded by thousands of production lines and automated management systems covering the processing of toffee, snow cakes, and small steamed buns, the automation and intelligence of the production workshop have reached A higher level, and is dubbed the "playground" of the snack world.

The food industry has basically gone through four development stages in its long development. Whether it is the current market demand change or the urgent need for breakthroughs in the development of the industry, production automation and intelligent transformation have become an important path for current development. For the food industry, which is still dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, in the process of promoting industrial integration, transformation and upgrading, not only enterprises in the industry are required to actively seek changes, but corresponding policy support may also keep up.