After having successfully implemented SortiPack® Beef Tomatoes, the company is now expanding its portfolio towards cucumbers. With increasing scarcity and cost of labour, automation and robotisation are crucial to make the fresh produce and horticulture sector more scalable, sustainable and future proof. The SortiPack® robot line for automated grading, sorting and packing generates more value for growers and packers than only (labour) cost reduction. The computer vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided robot line fosters more consistency and predictability in the process and makes it more flexible and scalable. Its open system architecture and advanced data functionality makes the system integrable with surrounding systems and data portals. All data is available real-time and offline for process and yield optimisation purposes.
The SortiPack® Cucumber robot line is a modular system that allows growers to vary the number of robots in function of the desired capacity and to adapt this afterwards. SortiPack® handles each cucumber individually determining the weight accurately in an unprecedented manner while combining this with all geometrical data from the 3D vision systems. The robots pack cucumbers individually, making it more flexible than any other systems out there in the market. It enables multiple stacking patterns to be applied while also taking into account the actual cucumber and package characteristics, such as length, thickness and curvature. The cucumber-centric approach reduces the chances of waste and damage.