The hygienic demands of food legislation put pressure on the meat-processing industry to make special efforts during the construction and operation of their machines and plants.Temperature, humidity and stipulated plant cleaning cycles with caustic solutions can drastically affect machine technology, particularly the electronics. Solutions from SICK have decades of proven performance and reliability under the harshest of conditions. Solutions include inductive sensors, photoelectric sensors and hand-held scanners.
Photoelectric proximity sensors on accumulating conveyor systems monitor and control the material flow – single feed or block feed is possible. ATM60 multiturn encoders transfer the absolute positions of the robot’s individual turning axes to the controller.