Linyi smart equipment maker automates food production from pot to pallet

At the workshop of Shandong Youyue Intelligent Equipment Technology Co in Zaoyuan town, Lanshan district, Linyi, East China's Shandong province, a worker on Nov 3 keyed pallet and carton data into a newly assembled collaborative palletizing robot and pressed start: the robotic arm began sorting and stacking at eight to 10 boxes a minute.

The company designs and builds complete automated lines for machine-hand loading, palletizing and sorting, and its catalog runs from intelligent packaging lines, conveyors and sterilization-steaming equipment to washing-drying machines and custom non-standard units, serving food producers at home and exporting to Thailand, Russia, Malaysia, Ethiopia and other countries.

Certified as a national high-tech enterprise and a provincial "specialized and sophisticated" firm, the company holds more than 20 authorized patents and ISO9001 certification, fields a team of more than 100 automation specialists, and cooperates with Qingdao University of Technology and the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on research.

Its double-channel sausage packaging line arranges pure-meat sausages automatically, a robotic sorting system identifies and grabs items by their features, and automated palletizing moves products accurately in complex spaces — closing the loop from cooking, sterilizing, sorting and packing to washing and drying raw materials. A "one code per item" traceability system, backed by a cloud platform, monitors and records the whole process from production through sales, giving brands, producers and consumers a transparent record of each machine's products.

Chen Fei, the company's general affairs manager, said the firm will keep developing smarter and more reliable automation solutions for factories while upgrading its own intelligent production.

Editor：韩蒙蒙