MAF AGROBOTIC products

MAF RODA AGROBOTIC has developed its own electronic sensors for sorting fruits and vegetables, and designed cutting-edge technology equipment to meet requirements for measuring weight and external/internal quality: colour, volume, diameter, density, shape, and even the sugar content (BRIX index), or checking for internal defects, such as internal browning, for example.

MAF RODA AGROBOTIC crate palletisers can be easily integrated within our turnkey grading and packing line solutions. The graphical user interfaces developed for the palletiser operations enable clear and rapid intervention. Palletiser management can be integrated and operated using mechanisms and technical resources put in place for traceability management.

Backed by its extensive experience, MAF RODA AGROBOTIC proposes an extremely broad range of palletizing systems for wooden or plastic bins. Just as for crate palletizing, interventions are accessible via a graphical user interface, enabling clear and rapid interventions to be made with regard to these bin handling operations. The mechanisms and resources implemented for traceability can also be used for managing the various MAF RODA AGROBOTIC bin palletizing solutions.

At first sight straightforward, the packing of graded produce in crates remains a complicated operation. It is necessary, for this phase, to treat on the same line both an overpacking item and a direct packing item for the fruits and vegetables that are to be packaged. The many different crate formats (dimensions, colours, materials, slots, customer specifics) and constraints (advantageous presentation of the fruits and vegetables, showing the side with the best colour, dealing with the shapes) make this a delicate phase. MAF RODA AGROBOTIC has therefore developed a range of equipment to address these constraints simply while ensuring absolute respect for the fruits and vegetables.

Bin packing is required in many of the processes of a fruit or vegetable packing station, in particular in the fruit and vegetable pre-grading stage. MAF RODA AGROBOTIC proposes a panel of solutions for handling, filling, storing, stacking and unstacking bins. Bin tracking is necessary in the framework of pre-grading in order to be able to manage the process and guarantee product traceability. The keyword in the design and operation of all equipment linked to bin packing is respect for the fruits and vegetables.

The boom in growth of consumer units generates a constant upgrading of the packaging solutions available. Being able to anticipate the packaging needs of our customers is a fundamental asset of MAF RODA AGROBOTIC. The packaging workshops provide our customers with new solutions, replacing unpleasant tasks with flexible workshops, accompanied by fast return on investment.

The Pomone is the flagship reference at MAF RODA AGROBOTIC. Out of our entire range of graders, it is the system with the greatest versatility in terms of capacity to process fruits and vegetables according to diameter and shape. Its design makes it capable of multi-product grading with constant careful handling of delicate fruits and vegetables throughout the entire sorting and packaging cycle, without transfer, notably through the use of reception brushes or bicones coated with a flexible material, for example. Capable of receiving the entire range of MAF RODA AGROBOTIC sensors, the Pomone also demonstrates its efficiency in fruit analysis: 100% of the surface is analysed, with a good sort-quality ratio, good results optimisation, good 3D reconstitution, and a high-performance system of dual-sensor cameras (colour and infrared).

The Uniway P-76/100 is an electronic, single-lane and multi-lane (odd and even) grader that can be fed from both sides. It can be used for working on cylindrical fruits of diameters between 25 and 90 mm (pitch 76) or between 35 and 120 mm (pitch 100). The rotation of the fruit enables the sensors to be deployed (colour, quality, sugar content, etc.). This grader is efficient, quiet, robust and low on power consumption.

The Berryway is an electronic grader for the sorting and selection of blueberries. It can be used for working on cylindrical fruits of diameters between 9 and 25 mm. The integrated electronic sensor can analyse the entire surface of the blueberries thanks to the complete rotation of each fruit when passing beneath the camera.

The Axone grader has been designed for the sorting and packaging of elongated vegetables such as aubergines, cucumbers, carrots, conference pears, etc. Axone is an asynchronous conveyor that offers fast product processing and simplified sorting operations. It is composed of a V-shaped pre-aligner for separating and isolating the items of produce before they pass beneath the cameras. The AXONESCAN optical system recognises the colour and dimensions of the product, as well as any defects of form or aspect. Depending on the image analysis results obtained by AXONESCAN, the ORPHEA program assigns to each product a preselected outlet.