Mitsubishi Electric
The Art Of Slicing
ROBOT KEEPS
NEWTECH AT THE
CUTTING EDGE OF
CAKE SLICING
When automation OEM Newtech
looked to design a new ultrasonic
cutting machine for the bakery
industry, it turned to Mitsubishi
Electric for a fast, efficient, flexible and
clean robotic solution. The result is an
innovative machine design that can cut
cakes to the highest levels of precision,
working flexibly for different portion
sizes and quantities, and eliminating
problems of damaged product.
Based in Bedford, Newtech is a
specialist supplier of standard
machines which provides today’s food
manufacturers with cost-effective,
high quality automation systems,
with the highest levels of flexibility to
meet ever-changing market demands.
One of the company’s innovations
is the adoption of ultrasonic cutting
technology, giving best-available
cut quality for products which are
difficult to process using conventional
methods.
With a new machine design,
Newtech set out to overcome
these limitations by combining
ultrasonic cutting with robotic
actuation of the cutting blade. For
an out-of-the-box solution which
would be easy to integrate into
the machine, Newtech turned to
Mitsubishi Electric.
The solution offered by Mitsubishi
Electric was built around an RF13
13kg payload, six axis robot,
mounted within a stainless steel
cell. One of the fastest robots in
its class, the RF13 is also highly
dextrous, being capable of reaching
all the way behind itself and also
very close to its base, giving a highly
flexible and compact working area.
The robot is controlled via the
Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ
Platform. The iQ Platform is a
multi-functional
automation
environment which incorporates Q
series PLC control and uniquely, an
integrated robot controller within
the same rack.
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