Robotic Automation in Dairy and Meat Processing Sector for Hygienic Processing and Enhanced Production

Abstract

Most of the tasks in dairy and meat processing industries are full of physical challenges, prone to labour scarcity, and repetitive. Sometimes the labour cost is 50 per cent of the total product cost. To meet the demands of the rapidly growing population, robotic automation has tremendous scope, but the technology is still lagging in food industries than other industrial sectors. Currently, value-added production in dairy and meat industries is limited and inefficient in terms of capacity and hygienic output. The need for robotics is increasing to get work with the consideration of hygiene and high productivity rate along with eradicating human interference. Diseases like the coronavirus (COVID-19) are spreading with an uncontrolled chain because of human touch, but these touch-free smart technologies can save the generations.