The Ishida RobotGrader combines weighing and pick and place technologies to grade products of varying weight and pack them to a fixed weight straight into the tray.

The system reduces giveaway to less than 1% per pack and can correctly place and orientate the pieces, at speeds of up to 320 pieces per minute.

By comparison, manual operation can be extremely labour intensive, with a single operator packing 30 pieces / min, and where overfill can be anywhere from 5% to 20%.

The RobotGrader takes product from upstream processing and cutting areas and delivers accurately filled and styled fixed weight trays.

Product is individually weighed and scanned by shape, position and orientation to determine the robot’s selection of pieces for each tray.

Key benefits:

• Can reduce giveaway per pack from typically 10% to under 1%
• Reduces labour from typically 10 to just 3 operators
• Saves floor space by up to 30% compared with manual operation
• Unique gripper design enables fast orientation and firm but gentle placement
• Speeds of up to 320 pieces or 160 two-piece packs per minute
• Typically 10 times faster than manual operation
• Optional bulk packing for out-of-spec pieces