Food is the most important thing for people, so the development of food processing industry is very important for people. It is related to our basic quality of life. With the rapid rise of China's economy, more and more people begin to pursue the quality of life, and the requirements for food quality are constantly improving, which undoubtedly brings challenges to the food processing industry.

Some food processing industries were eventually eliminated by the progressive society because they did not accept the challenges well. So how on earth can we accept the challenge? Traditional food processing technology can no longer meet the needs of modern people, so only by realizing the automation of food factories can enterprises accept the challenge, reduce the cost of production by automation, improve the quality of products and increase the profits of enterprises, so as to make enterprises develop healthily and permanently. Go down.



1. Introduction to the concept of automation design in food factories


Food factory automation design is divided into two parts, one part is food factory design, the other part is automation design. Among them, the design of food factory refers to the complete design of all individual projects that should be allocated in the food factory, including general layout, production workshop, power workshop, transportation inside and outside the factory, automatic control instrument, heating and ventilation, environmental protection engineering, welfare facilities, office buildings and technical and economic estimates.



Automation design refers to the application of computer technology to achieve automatic control of certain operation steps without human operation. To sum up the above two aspects, automatic design of food engineering refers to the process of applying computer to manage food production intelligently, which enables food factories to realize intelligentized management.


2. Advantage Analysis of Food Factory Automation Design


1) Reducing production costs


The concept of automation has been explained above. Therefore, we will also know that the ultimate goal of automation is to achieve automatic process management without human resources, so there is no need to employ a large number of human resources for production, thus reducing the production costs of enterprises. This is only one aspect, in general. The automation of food factories can reduce labor intensity, reduce wastage and high-efficiency mass production, thus reducing product costs.


Generally speaking, the implementation of automation reduces the number of plant equipment, while reducing labor and maintenance costs. The automation system is more accurate and repeatable than others. It can quickly achieve the best operating state by fine-tuning. Therefore, automation has the characteristics of high efficiency and low cost, and greatly improves the production capacity.


2) Ensuring the quality and hygiene of food



Why say automated production can guarantee the quality of food, because the whole process of automated production system is intelligent operation, all the detected data are accurately matched by the computer, once there is an error in a link, the computer will give a prompt, and then the staff will modify accordingly, so as to ensure the quality of food. Accuracy of the whole production process.


On the other hand, the requirements of food hygiene regulations are becoming stricter and stricter. One way is to minimize human participation and interference in the production process. This can be achieved by mechanization and automation, and it is possible to realize unmanned chemical plants. Modern controllers are more compact and easy to clean, and automatic cleaning and sterilization equipment provide reliable health protection.



3) Replacing Manpower with Robot


In the automation system, one of the biggest characteristics is that many robots are used to replace manual operation. Food processing industry is known as labor-intensive processing enterprises, because it requires a lot of manpower to operate every step, and the realization of automated design of food factories allows robots to replace workers.


At the same time, with the development of science and technology, the combination of modern new robots and modern sensor technology promotes the flexible standardized processing technology in the food industry. With the development of grasping ability, sensors, vision technology and cutting-edge information processing technology, it has become an inevitable trend for robots to enter the food processing industry. Robot arms can be harvested, placed, transported and positioned like human arms, but they are more powerful, more precise, more repeatable and faster.



4) Superior Data Processing Ability of Computer

Another characteristic of food processing industry is that in the process of reproduction, a large amount of data need to be calculated, monitored and managed, so as to realize the safety of food in enterprises. For example, the processing temperature of a certain food should be between 100-110, which requires careful observation.

In the past, there were always various problems in manual operation. But the realization of intelligent system makes this work very simple. Mathematical modeling is carried out by computer, and then the correct judgment of automatic control system is realized, which makes the processing simplified and accurate, and continuously guides the processing operation when there are external disturbances and operation parameters changing with time.


3. Analysis of Several Main Steps of Food Factory Automation Design


Food factory automation design steps are very complex and the design content is very large. I divide these steps into three steps. Next, we will analyze these three steps.


1) Introduction of Automation-related Technologies


The first step of food processing automation design is to introduce related automation technology. The development of automation technology of food industry in China is relatively short, but the technology is very diverse. There are several kinds of automation technology for a certain processing process, more than a dozen. Therefore, at the beginning of automation design, we should aim at the facts of our own factory.