LEAP4Beef - Module L4B01 Project 2 - Striploin chining pre-production cell accuracy improvements

it has been identified that there is a need to improve sustainability of the fabrication process, through; decreasing waste, increasing the bottom line, increasing staff safety, increase employment demographics and increase in quality and specifications. LEAP4Beef is focused on deboning and packing of chilled beef carcasses and in 2024 the first pre-production in plant concept prototype cell as part of this strategy was successfully developed and installed for demonstration at JBS Brooklyn assessing the required automation principles to achieve automated striploin chine processing. This “real-world” processing demonstration and ongoing production trials has proven invaluable at demonstrating the need for further information from the striploin to enable cut path variation along the length of the striploin to achieve acceptable yield outcomes to make a commercially viable offering. It is proposed in this project to enhance the sensing system of pre-production concept prototype currently installed at JBS to predict the curvature of the vertebrae and measure if this produces a sufficient improvement in yield. The success of this project will provide the steering group including Scott with the information required to develop a ‘final’ module design that will result in a pre-commercial machine build offer being made to an Australian processor.