What is often considered a prerequisite for meeting regulatory hygiene and food safety guidelines is an important topic to dive into. A thoughtful hygienic design saves you time in cleaning and maintaining facilities. Over time, even a small mistake can lead to unsanitary spaces that are a hassle to keep clean. With this in mind, we worked with our customers to develop our hygienic line.

The variety of applications had to be reflected in a gripper design. From cheese, sausage, meat fillets to fish, the objects themself have a high variance in size and weight between them. Often, a system must be designed to quickly adapt to other product dimensions of the same food product, like different type of bread and buns.

The special design minimizes gaps by reducing the number of elements used and using adapters with our new hygienic locks instead of our bayonet locks. Here, fingers can be unmounted and cleaned separately by opening the hygienic screws and simply pulling the fingers out of the array.

A second important aspect of the hygienic design covered by this product line are the beveled corners and sloped surfaces that facilitate decontamination preparation.

Incidentally, the bases and fingers are resistant to common solvent or oxidizing solutions and can even be pressure washed together in the assembled device or removed from the robot for cleaning in the dishwasher.