Sandwich Automation
A Planet Sandwich Automation System is a custom-engineered system to meet your specific demands for throughput and reliability. Ready-to-eat products are labor intensive yet provide profitability over traditional commodity food product. Planet has provided unique and cutting edge solutions as the food industry has evolved into the convenience food market.
Aligning, slicing, grouping, depositing, conveying, counting, ejecting, cooking, sorting, assembling, freezing, packaging and other functions normally done by hand or in a semi-automatic manner can be achieved by a turnkey system with a payback where unit labor costs are dramatically reduced.
These systems are available to those food production firms serious about stepping up to the next level of production while reducing labor and increasing throughput within the same floor space. Consult with your Planet representative to determine the fit of automation to your products.
Hamburger Cooking & Assembly Automation
Hamburger preparation and cooking is only the first step in Planet Product Corporation's solution to a Sandwich Cooking Challenge. View our video below and you will see:
--meat patties are sliced onto the griddle
--buns are sliced and separated
--onions diced in readiness for cooking
--spices are deposited
--cooking burgers are flipped just in time
--hamburgers are assembled onto griddle warmed buns
--hamburgers are assembled and conveyed into the spiral freezer
--final packaging of the sandwiches for retail sales distribution
This requires a series of many integrated and automated steps to achieve a throughput of 20,000 units per hour!
Planet automated and integrated the entire process, while maintaining the restaurant flavor and quality of the sandwiches, to meet our customer's Sandwich Cooking Challenge.
Video: sandwci_cook_and_assembly.wmv
Breakfast Sandwich Line
Planet Products developed the first automated breakfast sandwich assembly system in 2002 to take the labor cost out of this popular product. These sandwich automation systems typically take the fresh biscuits, cuts them, separates the tops from the bottoms, singulates the frozen cooked sausage patty and builds the sandwich from the bottom up including any extra items such as cheese slices or egg patties as each sandwich is placed in the packager cavity or other packaging system. Increased throughput, labor reduction, improved hygiene and process uniformity are paybacks for installing capital equipment designed by Planet Products.
Video: Breakfast Sandwich Video.swf
Robotics
Planet Products understands that reliable and sanitary equipment is critical to our customers. We work hard to provide solutions to your automation challenges. More and more robotic automation is the solution that will meet your bottom line objectives. Planet Products has a state-of-the-art cold room featuring a FANUC Robotics A-520i™Washdown robot. This unique set-up allows Planet Products to provide proof of principal testing to your products to ensure our solution meets your expectations. The A-520i™Washdown is engineered for precise, high-speed operation and is designed to meet USDA requirements for incidental food contact.
This robot is the perfect solution for meat packaging and dairy applications. We offer our customers years of food industry experience along with the inherent benefits of robotic automation to find solutions to your problem. FANUC Robotics A-520i™Washdown robot Planet Products custom engineers turnkey, performance guaranteed, robotic systems designed to reduce your costs. Because each aspect of our systems - from robot end-of-arm-tool to the smart conveyors - is custom designed to meet your needs, we're able to provide solutions for new or existing operations.
"Pick & Accumulate" end-of-arm-tool for frozen hamburger patties designed by Planet Products. Planet Products Corporation is an authorized integrator of FANUC Robotics North America, Inc.
Contact sales@planet-products.com for more information.
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