Smarter Use of Labor
Workers can focus on jobs that need more skill or decision-making when repetitive tasks are automated. This helps reduce physical strain while also improving overall efficiency.
Robots For Food & Beverage Production
FANUC’s robots for the food and beverage industry provide efficiency, reliability and food safe automated solutions. Contact us today to find the right robots for your food & beverage production application.
Robotic Food Applications Overview
This overview highlights FANUC robotic solutions for food handling, packaging, and palletizing across a range of processing environments.
Food & Beverage Production Robots
Innovation defines the food and beverage industry and FANUC robots are perfect for bringing your operations to the next level. Whether you’re facing labor challenges or changing customer demands, robots offer a scalable automation solution that can be implemented quickly to maximize productivity, increase food safety as well as boost your bottom line keeping your business competitive.
Food & Beverage Cobots and Robots
DR-3iB Delta Robot Overview
An overview of the FANUC DR‑3iB delta robot series performing high‑speed food handling and pick‑and‑place operations.
FANUC's First Stainless Steel Food-Grade Robot
The new DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS is FANUC’s first stainless steel food-grade delta robot for picking and packing primary food products. Rated IP69K, the robot meets US national food safety standards, and sets a new benchmark for robotic food handling in terms of payload, speed, reach and sanitation.
The DR-3iB/6 STAINLESS features a fully enclosed stainless steel body that is resistant to the chemicals and high pressure/temperatures required in strict washdown environments found in the bakery, cosmetics, dairy, pharmaceutical and protein industries.
Benefits of Robots for Food & Beverage Production
Less Downtime, More Production
To keep production lines moving without unexpected stops, FANUC robots and cobots are built for reliability. Strong technical support further helps reduce downtime.
Works Across the Whole Production Line
FANUC robots fit into different stages of food and beverage production without a hassle, covering everything from packing finished products for shipment to handling raw ingredients at the start.
Better Food Safety
To reduce contamination risks, FANUC's robots built for food handling use food-safe grease and special coatings. They also handle heavy-duty washdowns, keeping hygiene at a high standard in food processing.
Faster Production
High output is possible with these robots, which manage high-speed palletizing, packing, and picking. That helps deal with labor shortages while also meeting customer demand.
Scales with Your Needs
Expanding automation becomes easier with FANUC robots, keeping operations running efficiently whether businesses need to fill labor gaps or respond to new customer demands.
Reliable Quality Every Time
FANUC robots ensure products are handled correctly with precise packing and picking, keeping consistency in food production while reducing waste from errors.
End of Line Food Processing Solutions
Automating the end of your production line increases your flexibility, enabling you to react quickly to the trends and challenges involved in providing high-quality packing, storage and logistics. Wrapping, labelling, packing and palletizing all involve strenuous and repetitive manual work – something that can easily be automated with optimized, cost-effective results.
Food Pouch Packing
A FANUC M‑2iA/3SL delta robot picks food pouches from a conveyor and loads them into boxes.
Video courtesy of Strongpoint Automation
Cheese Block Handling
A FANUC M‑710iC robot handles blocks of cheese, transferring products along conveyors during an automated food processing operation.
Video courtesy of Quest Industrial LLC
Shredded Cheese Case Packing
Delkor’s MSP Series case packer picks and places pouches at high speed, loading them flat, shingled, or nested into cases.
Video courtesy of Delkor Systems Inc.
Juice Case Palletizer
A robotic palletizing system uses a FANUC M‑410 robot to pick and stack juice gallon containers at high speed.
Video courtesy of Transautomation Technologies
Case Packing Chocolate Bars
FANUC LR Mate and delta robots work together to pick chocolate bars and pack them into cases within a vision‑guided robotic case packing system.
Video courtesy of Premier Tech
Raw Hamburger Meat Packaging
FANUC delta robots pick raw hamburger patties from a conveyor and place them into trays during an automated primary food packaging process.
Video courtesy of Tomahawk Automation Solutions LLC
Burrito Handling
Two FANUC LR Mate 200iD/7LC robots pick and transfer burritos as they move along a conveyor in an automated food handling application.
Video courtesy of Convergix Automation Solutions
Cow Carcass Splitting Robots - Jarvis
A robotic meat processing system uses a Jarvis band saw to automatically split pig carcasses during primary processing.
Video courtesy of Jarvis Products Corporation
Tortilla Handling
FANUC LR Mate robots transfer tortillas from one conveyor to another as part of an automated food handling process.
Video courtesy of Convergix Automation Solutions
Robotic Food Applications Overview
This overview highlights FANUC robotic solutions for food handling, packaging, and palletizing across a range of processing environments.
Chicken Sandwich Assembly
An automated bun handling and sandwich assembly system singulates buns, places proteins and toppings with FANUC robots, and completes assembly before packaging.
Video courtesy of Convergix Automation Solutions
Muffin De-panning System
Archive
Food Handling Solutions Compilation
A compilation showcasing FANUC robotic food handling solutions across a variety of applications.
Video courtesy of Convergix Automation Solutions
Muffin Depanning System
A FANUC M‑410iB robot picks 72 muffins at a time and transfers them into packaging containers in an automated depanning system.
Video courtesy of Colborne Foodbotics LLC
Complex Beverage and Bucket Depalletizing
FANUC robots depalletize mixed beverage cases and pails using advanced tooling within an automated material handling system.
Video courtesy of Pasco Systems Corp
Picking and Stacking Candy Bars
A vision‑guided FANUC M‑1iA delta robot picks randomly placed candy bars from a conveyor and stacks them at high speed.
Video courtesy of Primetest Automation, Inc.
Vegetable Bin Picking
This system uses FANUC robots with 3D vision to bin pick, track produce on conveyors, and case pack fruits and vegetables of varying shapes.
Video courtesy of Genik Inc.
Raw Poultry Packaging
The Quik Pick QP100 uses a stainless FANUC DR‑3iB/6 delta robot and soft gripping to pick and place raw poultry into trays for packaging.
Video courtesy of Quest Industrial LLC
Automated Variety Pack Infeed: Efficient Can Sorting System
A robotic variety infeed system uses FANUC M‑20iD robots to unload single‑flavor can trays and feed lanes for mixed‑pack carton loading.
Video courtesy of Mpac Group
Case Studies
Case Study
Automating Agriculture: Greenhouse Turns to Robots for Tomato Harvesting
By deploying intelligent robotic harvesters, Westburg Greenhouse reduced reliance on manual labor, improved efficiency, and created a scalable path for greenhouse automation.
Case Study
Candy Maker Increases Productivity with First-Time Automation
By partnering with Delkor Systems, Kenny’s Candy automated packaging lines to hit up to 70 packages per minute — driving major productivity gains while creating more higher‑value roles for workers.
Case Study
Nature Fresh Farms Revolutionizes Tomato Harvesting with Robots & AI
See how Nature Fresh Farms uses AI‑powered FANUC robots to harvest tomatoes — reducing labor strain, overcoming workforce shortages, and enabling rapid greenhouse expansion with existing staff.
Case Study
Tasteful Selections’ Bite-Sized Success Automating Baby Potato Packing
Tasteful Selections boosted efficiency, improved worker safety, and removed packing bottlenecks by deploying FANUC palletizing and delta robots to gently handle potatoes at high speeds.
Articles
Whipping Up New Opportunities in Baking Through Robotic Automation
Bakeries are using flexible, easy-to-use robotics to ease labor shortages, improve safety, and boost productivity while empowering workers.
4 min read
FANUC America Debuts New Food-Grade Cobot
The new CRX-30iA food-grade cobot offers top reach and payload in its class, improving efficiency and consistency in food and beverage applications.
3 min read
Products
Products Related to Food & Beverage
Videos
Videos Related to Food & Beverage
Big Beverage Palletizing System
Three FANUC robots sort and form layers of slim‑can cases, then palletize up to 100 cases/min with automated pallet dispensing for nonstop operation.
Video courtesy of Schneider Package Equipment Co Inc.
Tray Loading - Protein Pick and Place System
This protein pick‑and‑place system shows robots loading steaks into thermoform trays, enabled by a fully hygienic robot design.
Video courtesy of Convergix Automation Solutions
DR-3iB Delta Robot Promo
This promo showcases the FANUC DR‑3iB delta robots performing fast, precise picking tasks.
Muffin De-panning System
A robotic muffin packaging system uses FANUC robots to pick muffins from baking trays, place them into erected trays, and close trays for packaging.
Video courtesy of Elm Electrical
SCARA Robots for Layer Forming Beverage Products
SCARA robots form stable product layers by grouping and positioning beverage containers prior to packing and palletizing.
SCARA Robots for Food Applications
An overview of FANUC SCARA robots for food applications, highlighting SR‑12iA and SR‑20iA models with food‑grade and washdown environmental options.
Articles
Articles Related to Food & Beverage
Whipping Up New Opportunities in Baking Through Robotic Automation
Bakeries are using flexible, easy-to-use robotics to ease labor shortages, improve safety, and boost productivity while empowering workers.
4 min read
FANUC America Debuts New Food-Grade Cobot
The new CRX-30iA food-grade cobot offers top reach and payload in its class, improving efficiency and consistency in food and beverage applications.
3 min read
