Solutions for industrial dairies

Cimcorp offers total automation solutions for industrial dairies. The dairy industry is a high throughput business subject to strict sell by dates; it is labor-intensive with a lot of heavy repetitive lifting in a harsh chill store environment. With prices being set by a competitive market, improved profitability comes from streamlining operations and lowering costs.

Cimcorp's gantry robot solutions are used for all kinds of dairy products; milk, cream, yoghurts, cheese etc. MultiPick robots handle crates, and MultiplePick robots can pick one or several rows of gable-top products from a crate.

There are common characteristics for all dairy distribution which make together with the use of standard crates and trays dairy distribution an ideal gantry robot application.

• Labor-intensive manual handling
• Harsh environment; typically 0°C - +4°C in chill stores
• Very repetitive work with heavy lifting – resulting in high staff turnover and difficulties to recruit in many areas
• Picking accuracy is often a problem with cost penalties resulting from erroneous deliveries
• Multi-shift operation
• Number of SKUs are increasing as are supermarkets’ service level demands
• Multi-shift processing operations to be combined with very tight delivery schedules to the retail side of the business.