Bandsaws are used extensively within the meat processing industry, but unfortunately are a major contributor to serious injuries, including amputations. According to Meat & Livestock Australia there are approximately 1000 bandsaws in use in Australian meat works and butcher shops. Machinery Automation and Robotics’ innovative BladeStop™ system is designed to act fast enough to avoid major injury to the operator and reduce the frequency of amputations. Along with providing obvious social benefits BladeStop™ will also dramatically improve the overall sustainability of the meat processing industry. BladeStop™ provides simple and safe operation that mechanically stops the blade when the control unit determines a person has come in contact. BladeStop™ is an operator aid providing the following benefits: Increases processing uptime whilst greatly reducing the risk of serious band saw injury; Improves personnel morale.

Selleys, a world-class Australian manufacturer with a string of leading brands behind, was clear on three points when it came to the automation of its new production line at its manufacturing facility in Sydney: eliminate occupational health and safety issues; reduce labour costs; and increase production capacity. The system principle delivered by Machinery Automation & Robotics (MAR) was simple: automate carton handling; automate pallet handling; automate stretch wrapping; install a single robot system to perform the process; design a user-friendly touch screen; and the entire palletising system to be controlled by a single operator.

Mining industry. Conducting robotic extraction point profiling using Mobile Profile Scanner gives accurate measurements of shot-crete levels whilst removing staff from hazardous areas.This profiling device provides accurate and reputable measurements, improves mining safety and saves time. Using laser profiling technology the Mobile Profile Scanner can be customised to suit the environment of the particular mine site. Robotic Idler Predict is capable of inspecting idlers on loaded, operational conveyors, providing your mine site with the ability to conduct predictive maintenance on conveyors without downtime. This innovative and nonintrusive conveyor idler inspection method assists in increasing conveyor up-time and removes workplace health and safety risks of getting injured currently associated with conveyor servicing, maintenance and breakdowns.