Order picking solutions for industrial dairies

Cimcorp offers total automation solutions for industrial dairies. The dairy industry is a high throughput business subject to strict sell by dates; it is labor-intensive with a lot of heavy repetitive lifting in a harsh chill store environment. With prices being set by a competitive market, improved profitability comes from streamlining operations and lowering costs.

Cimcorp's gantry robot solutions are used for all kinds of dairy products; milk, cream, yoghurts, cheese etc. MultiPick robots handle crates, and MultiplePick robots can pick one or several rows of gable-top products from a crate. 

There are common characteristics for all dairy distribution which make together with the use of standard crates and trays dairy distribution an ideal gantry robot application.

characteristics of dairy distribution

  • Labor-intensive manual handling
  • Harsh environment; typically 0°C - +4°C in chill stores
  • Very repetitive work with heavy lifting – resulting in high staff turnover and difficulties to recruit in many areas
  • Picking accuracy is often a problem with cost penalties resulting from erroneous deliveries
  • Multi-shift operation
  • Number of SKUs are increasing as are supermarkets’ service level demands
  • Multi-shift processing operations to be combined with very tight delivery schedules to the retail side of the business.