The convenience foods sector is rapidly growing, with more and more people eating on the go due to busier lifestyles. Facing immense pressure to innovate and expand product ranges, convenience foods manufacturers must keep up with these consumer demands to maintain competitiveness. Other challenges for this industry include stringent hygiene regulations, health/nutritional values and growing environmental concerns.
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How CWM can help your industry
CWM Automation provide highly flexible, reliable machinery that can be tailored to meet exact customer requirements. Built to EHEDG standards, using food quality, non-corrosive metals, our machines will guarantee high product quality that meet strict safety/hygiene guidelines. Whether you are producing soups, ready meals or frozen foods, CWM can create a solution for your business.
Rental options on our range of rotary machinery are also available, for customers wishing to test the market with new product developments before investing in equipment.
Convenience foods case study – Pigs in Blankets
The Brief
Automate the packing of a range of different pigs in blankets into plastic trays of different quantities, style, orientation and sizes. The machine needs to pack up to 240 PIB’s a minute. The PIB’s are delivered to the machine from 4 automated bacon wrapping machines and the packed trays need to be delivered evenly spaced in single file to a metal detector in the correct orientation ready for shrink wrapping.
The Solution
A pair of twin Delta robot pick and place systems (4 robots in total) with integrated tray dispense and end of line collation system. Each pick and place system consists of a servo driven, continuous motion, infeed conveyor belt with an over track camera system to map out the placement of the PIB’s. The Delta robots pick the PIB’s off this belt, orientate and place them in the trays which are travelling on a parallel, servo driven, continuous motion, flighted conveyor belt. This conveyor is automatically loaded with empty trays from a stack and continues out of the pick and place system to feed the end of line collation system. The collation system takes the full trays delivered from both machines and pitches them evenly in single file onto an outfeed conveyor belt. The PIB’s are picked using pneumatic soft grip fingers and placed into the pockets of the empty trays to a recipe set pattern. Change parts on the tray dispense allow for different trays to be fed onto the flighted conveyor belt which has a single point side guide adjustment to ensure the trays are perfectly positioned to accept the PIB’s. The whole system is designed to be stripped and clean with quick release mechanisms and tool free disassembly.
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Troy Foods Testimomial
“I have been working with CWM for many years already and will continue to do so, their work ethic is aligned to my own and I’ve never been let down. In this fast-paced high demand industry, I can count on CWM being there for when I need them the most.”
Kevin Sparrow | Engineering Manager | Troy Foods
Case study
200R soup filling case study
The Brief
The client approached CWM with a brief to provide them with a filling, sealing and lidding machine suitable for hot soups into ring-lock containers. They were seeking a solution that offered an accurate fill and met food safety/hygiene regulations. Additionally, they wanted a flexible machine that could integrate with other machinery and could handle a range of different packaging formats.
The Solution
CWM designed and manufactured a four-head filling, sealing and lidding rotary machine, built from food-grade non-corrosive materials on a stainless steel box section frame to ensure durability and hygiene standards. For filling purposes, a four-head servo controlled volumetric filling assembly was supplied to provide a clean, accurate fill of soup.
Our client has since bought two additional 200R filling machines, due to the increase in productivity they saw with the first line.
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