| Book Name: | Robotics and automation in the food industry |
| Category: | Mechatronic Book |
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Robotics and automation in the food industry
Book Description:
Implementing robotics and automation in the food sector offers great potential for improved safety, quality, and profitability by optimizing process monitoring and control. Robotics and automation in the food industry provide a comprehensive overview of current and emerging technologies and their applications in different industry sectors.
Part one introduces key technologies and significant areas of development, including automatic process control and robotics in the food industry, sensors for automated quality and safety control, and the development of machine vision systems. Optical sensors and online spectroscopy, gripper technologies, wireless sensor networks (WSN) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are discussed, considering intelligent quality control systems based on fuzzy logic. Part two investigates robotics and automation in particular unit operations and industry sectors. The automation of bulk sorting and control of food chilling and freezing is considered, followed by chapters on the use of robotics and automation in the processing and packaging meat, seafood, fresh produce, and confectionery. Automatic control of thermal batch processing of canned foods is explored before a final discussion on automation for the sustainable food industry.
Robotics and automation in the food industry: Current and future technologies PDF
Author(s): Darwin G. Caldwell
Series: Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, Year: 2013
ISBN: 1845698010,9781845698010
