At Baas , the growers visualize a place upright - alone packing robot . " It looked futuristic but was in commission phase so we did not get to see it unravel , alas " , Vas say . It should be capable to produce 600 box an 60 minutes and cost approximately € 36,000 .
Robot box maker at baa
One land site also had a conveyor belt feeding the trays in for the transplanter , in essence giving a fender which could leave in a labour economy .
The ISO baffle Robots at Beekenkamp were very impressive , allot to Vas . " These were achieving approx . 2,300 per minute , there were still some gap post planting though . "
ISO Robot arm sticking auto can average 2,300 cuttings per hour .
A TTA Gapping Machine was pushing out exist plugs on trays and positioning established works / plugs from another tray , " good if you have lots of gaps after sprouting . "
A TECMEC Cyclamen Grading Machine screen into Class A and Class B , can grade up to 9,000 per hour " but was achieving 7,440 when I contain . "
Codema software at P van der Haak
At P v.d . Haak , SDF Software / System was used to move benches in and out of the glasshouse . " This is a great system that we cognize KG / Technicon could also deliver " , Vas says . " you could query where certain character of plants are etc . and can see at a glance " .
in high spirits Level Automation was in property for clean Bench . " Works well , not unlike to what we now have at Clay Lake " , Vas annotate .
At Deliflor , the raiser catch the 30 Sticking Robots producing up to 1 million Mums a day . point pick up 1 at a sentence and deliver 4 at a time to the planting head which implant 8 at once . " An excellent system of rules which makes the best use of the automaton head reducing travel time " , Vas said .
The next plosive was Zuidbaak , which boast compost feeding over conveyors unmediated to various potting machines etc . " A good idea as large amounts of compost can be fed into a exclusive principal provender and this also avoids the mix of pedestrian and vehicle crusade . "
Vas also refer to the manually operated Crane in the glasshouse that can pick up entire beds of tray , " bang-up if you are place down on the priming coat but probably not for us . "
There was also a simple tray watering station that a individual trolley feed in through , " pushed through by wheels like our trolley pusher system . Simple but effective . "
At Wouters Kwekerij , a Visser Transplanter was visit in activeness – 5 working heads each with 8 heads , could achieve around 32,000 per minute .
The raiser also run across a gamey level hanging field goal transportation system . " Very utilitarian if you are doing a mellow number of baskets , make the best use of space and gets them off the floor . "
There were also simple but effective metal pair in use to link up trolley to trolley during shipping , " a safer option than plastic crosstie . "
Vas was n’t whole sold on the conducting wire guided mobile trolley pullers though , although " they look good and trip at a dependable f number etc . "
" Woodchip storage was ill managed , too much empty space in computer storage and woodchip outside getting wet . They have 1 x 5Mw and 2 x 6Mw Biomass Boilers ( Kava ) . "
The trolley construction machine seem good , according to Vas , although he was n’t sure how dependable it was . Can be looked after by 1 person but it sound like they preferred take a leak trollies by hand using a trolley pusher system .
Vas sums up these " best scrap " of the tour :
His conclusion : " As we have see from other study tours , it can be most telling watch over the ‘ magic ’ of modern engineering science in action as with the plant spacing automaton in the eastern US . What is more interesting is when systems of production are introduced that harness the worthful innovations into a coherent system and aid raiser to engineer out labour peaks , operator error etc and increase mathematical product tone and reliability . This can only be done when the production building block and cognitive operation system has been conceived as a whole and appropriate mechanisation employed to discharge the photograph . We remember , amongst others , Dr Gideon Avigad who spoke on these themes to our conference group meeting in 2016 and is shape to desegregate robotics and automate equipment into growers ’ nurseries . In future , it will be possible to move from the automation of specific chore to a scenario where the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning tolerate robotic weapon system to watch a number of functions that substitute human remark , not just in terms of physical try but also automatise body of work areas requiring judgement and decision making such as in place and packing trading operations . "
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