Each season has its own unique flavor, such as qingtuan for Qingming Festival, zongzi for Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes for Mid-Autumn Festival. With the normalization of epidemic prevention and control and the increase of people's emphasis on traditional festivals, the demand for visiting relatives and friends will continue to recover, and the market consumption will also take on new characteristics. According to relevant data, the demand for mooncake consumption in China will increase in 2021, while the demand for gifts will decrease. In the rapid development of the industry at the same time, to ensure the taste and quality of the moon cake will become the sustainable development of the moon cake brand based on this. From the perspective of mooncake making enterprises, there are mainly three kinds of enterprises: catering enterprises layout of food production business, baking enterprises launch seasonal products and cross-border brands with the main purpose of taking advantage of marketing. In general, driven by factors such as intensified market competition and changing consumer demand for mooncakes, China's mooncake market will develop towards standardization, continuous innovation of taste and localization of packaging style.
In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. It is a traditional custom to enjoy the full moon and eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Data show that the market preference for mooncake crust is mainly traditional syrup, ice and crisp. Nowadays, there are more and more styles of mooncakes, including heavy oil, small and exquisite, crisp and sweet fillings, etc., which satisfy the diverse tastes of the public, but also bring challenges to food manufacturers. The production line should not only meet the peak production rhythm of seasonal products, but also be compatible with the rhythm and specifications of other products in the current production line. Then there are high compatibility requirements for automation efficiency:
speed
The spider hands are required to move along the high-speed conveyor belt to quickly grab the moon cakes and accurately sort them into the specified blister box with repeatability.
compatible
When changing production, there is no need to replace the gripper, the same set of gripper needs to be able to grab other cakes of different sizes, grams of weight and crispness;
Safety
The end claw hand can not cause pollution to food, to ensure the quality and safety of food, to ensure the health and safety of consumers;
lossless
Without damaging the crispy crust, the cake needs to be presented to consumers in its most perfect form.
safe sorting
The flexible gripper is very suitable for food sorting and can reach 110 times/minute high speed grasping and releasing frequency, which can match the speed of all industrial robots. Whether it is soft steamed bread or crispy skin egg yolk crisp, or heavy oil moon cake, as well as easy to touch the residue of matcha crisp, can be one paw compatible grasp, and will not cause any damage to the food skin!
The SRT flexible gripper meets the most stringent food safety requirements and can come into direct contact with food. And the gripper is in a closed pneumatic system operation, any food residue, debris will not enter the interior, cause blockage. Without additional sensors, it can adapt to different shapes, sizes and weights of products at any time.
results beyond expectations
The customer is a bakery enterprise integrating upstream supply chain and downstream distribution, mainly producing moon cakes, biscuits, cakes and other foods. With dozens of automated production lines, it can produce more than 3 million mooncakes a day. The production of moon cakes should be completed 2 months before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and pastries of other specifications should be produced after the Festival.
The weight span of the existing products is large, the shape is not uniform, the softness is not consistent, the width and height are not consistent, the moon cake is rather greasy, and there are certain requirements for the holding force and compatibility of the fixture. It is necessary to accurately locate and grab, sort and box while maintaining a high frequency beat, and ensure that the shape of the product will not be damaged.
After installed the SRT flexible fixture at the end, the moon cake production line can carry box of 85 per minute per shift production 250000 moon cakes, while improve the production efficiency, effectively solve the problem of the health and safety, the service life of more than 3 million times, ensure the equipment can run for 7 * 24 hours, toward a seasonal product profit to bombard.
Data show that from 2015 to 2020, mooncake sales rose from 13.18 billion yuan to 20.52 billion yuan, and last year the sales scale reached about 21.81 billion yuan, with the overall scale of the industry maintaining a rising trend. In order to standardize the mooncake industry standards and ensure food safety, the state issued the National Food Safety Standards for cakes and bread, severely cracking down on illegal issues of food safety, and food hygiene has become a top priority. SRT flexible jaws are not only easy to build, fast to deploy, but also meet the most stringent food safety requirements, such as EU AP certification, EU RoHS safety certification, EU CE certification, German LFGB test, US FDA test, Japan JSL370 test, etc. All clips are traceable, reducing the risk of the process.