
Hygienically designed for use in packaging applications with open food, such as meat, dairy products and ready made meals, ABB’s FlexPicker IRB360 has a payload up to 3kg to handle heavier objects and accommodate the mass of the increasingly sophisticated grippers required in handling diverse products. Capable of 110 picks/min. at 3kg, it has a fourth axis with an extensive work range without limiting the robot’s performance.
ABB Robotics; www.abb.com


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The Food Defense Strategy Exchange (FDSE) is a forum for food defense professionals to interact and share their knowledge and experiences. At the most recent FDSE, a poll of attendees revealed that approximately two-thirds were either re-evaluating their existing food defense plan, or implementing new food defense plans. In this podcast, Don Hsieh, Director of Commercial and Industrial Marketing at Tyco Integrated Security, discusses this topic and other findings from the exchange, and offers some best practices to proactively protect a company’s brand from food adulteration.
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