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2023-09-14

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In recent years, with the development of the meat processing industry and the transformation and upgrading of the traditional meat processing industry, more and more meat processing plants from the traditional manual processing and cutting into intelligent equipment meat cutting mode, the demand for intelligent cutting machine is also higher and higher.

一、What scenarios call for meat slitting



China's meat industry chain is divided into upstream, midstream and downstream, with upstream mainly breeding plants, midstream mainly slaughtering and processing plants, and downstream mainly wholesale plants, retail and food processing plants. Among them, those who need to cut and slice meat are mainly slaughtering and processing plants, retail and food processing plants.


1. Slaughterhouses

In the slaughtering and processing plant, the meat is generally processed differently according to the needs of different customers. Some of them only need to divide the meat by parts, which is usually carried out by professional decomposers; some of them also need to cut certain parts of raw meat into meat pieces according to a certain weight, at this time, the intelligent cutting machine can be used to carry out efficient and precise cutting.


2. Retail

In the retail industry, meat is generally sold by parts. In some boutique supermarkets, the same part of meat will also be required to be cut into pieces of the same thickness or weight and then packaged for sale, such as fatty beef rolls, lamb chops, selected ribs, and so on.


3. Food processing plants

In food processing plants, depending on the processing requirements of different products, meat is usually subdivided into meat pieces of a certain weight or thickness for subsequent processing, such as beef jerky, chicken breast and other snacks.




二、Methods of slitting meat


At present, the methods of meat slitting and processing are mainly divided into two categories - manual splitting and machine cutting.


1. Manual segmentation：Professional splitters are hired for manual splitting and cutting, and experienced splitters can break down a whole pig weighing up to one hundred pounds in six minutes.

2. Machine Dicing：There are quite a few types of meat cutters on the market today, such as frozen meat cutter, meat slicer, bone cutter, skinning machine and so on.



三、Advantages of unmanned intelligent slitting


1. Better quality meat：Intelligent slitting machine compared to manual, accurate knife, a knife separation, without repeated sawing, to effectively ensure that the meat quality and molding degree, thereby reducing customer complaints.

2. Portioning accuracy：According to different slitting requirements, it ensures that the shape/thickness/weight of each piece of slit product is consistent, which reduces the waste of raw materials and improves the utilization rate of raw materials, thus saving the cost of raw materials.

3. Reduce labor costs and increase output efficiency：Unmanned operation can eliminate the human resources of multiple personnel, only a few intelligent block cutter operators need to be hired, and compared to manual slitting, the machine slits faster and more accurately, thus improving output efficiency.
4. Clean and hygienic：Adopting unmanned operation can isolate the source of pollution from the source and make the production environment clean and hygienic without germs.



四、3D line laser measuring instrument detects the shape of the meat, which is used in conjunction with the dicing machine to realize accurate slitting.


In response to the project "Intelligent Meat Processing", a university's College of Agriculture, in order to study the intelligent meat processing technology, wants to develop an intelligent cutting machine, which needs to analyze the morphology of the meat to be cut, and the morphology information is transmitted to the cutting machine with the cutting tool to carry out accurate cutting, so as to realize the intelligent processing of the meat. Upon receipt of the request, UCOMET used the 3D line laser measuring instrument AR-7250 to perform topographic inspection on the sample pork:



After receiving the test results and proposal, the college teachers praised the accuracy and precision of the Line Laser Measuring Instrument AR-7250, and also thanked UCOMETRIC for contributing to the development of intelligent meat processing. Atometrics has always been committed to helping the iterative upgrading of advanced technology in various industries, therefore, we are honored to participate in the scientific research project of modern meat processing technology in colleges and universities, and Atometrics believes that: Intelligent technology leads the way to the future.


Atometrics 3D Line Laser Measuring Instrument AR-7000 series is a non-contact measuring device based on laser technology, which utilizes a high-brightness, long-life light source to emit a laser line beam of a certain wavelength. When this laser beam irradiates the sample to be measured, reflected light is formed and only the light of the corresponding wavelength can pass through the ultra-high-definition light-transparent optical glass and be received by the instrument. The instrument receives its reflected light path signal, and after data processing to get the point cloud data of the sample, so as to realize the detection of the sample's contour detection, defect detection, flatness, flatness, height difference and so on. Atometrics 3D Line Laser Measuring Instrument AR-7000 series utilizes 3840 dots, which can finely render the product shape and greatly improve the image quality and fineness.




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