ABB Robotics - Picking pancakes
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- ABB Robots installed by RG Luma are helping specialist food company Honeytop to speed up its pancake production and improve health, safety & hygiene. William Eid a director of Honeytop comments "This is our first investment in robotics technology and we have not experienced a single issue sincethe installation 6 months ago"
Extremely impressive integration. I'm glad someone is implementing technology that will help out companies like this.
Watching these videos of robots make me wish I went into electrical and mechanical engineering!
It's a great theory, and I'd love to live in that world. Unfortunately, we don't live there right now, so people need to work to make money to live. When we get there I will gladly let robots do all the boring work and only do things that are fun and interest me!
This guy speaks like a text-to-speech program, except its a real voice
When the video was taken the cooking process was still being developed so pre inspection of pancakes was highly manned and pancakes turned over to be inspected as well. Now the process is stable and results predictable so inspection is visual and by taking samples off the line only. Packed pancakes are not handled at all.
Could you count how many pcs per sec the picker can handle?
I appreciate that clarification. Watching the workers who are unmasked and without gloves (even with the best of intentions on their part) didn't give me a sense of good hygiene...
Buenas tardes...me pudiera mandar en Español...las ventajas de este Sistema
Thank goodness we're not employing those pesky, disease-laden humans anymore. They always complain about affording groceries and spending time with their families. Now we can get back to what's really important - pumping out soulless, pre-packaged pancakes 'round the clock.
Anything that can be automated eventually will be. Hopefully we find jobs that are less mindless to replace them!
This Robot dod not steal any jobs. It just replaced boring labour with interesting engineering while making food more affordable.
"hygenic" ... and there are people handling the pancakes by hand without gloves!???!!!
farvision Disgusting, and wearing rings too, making things worse!
I'm looking forward to working for ABB this year! Soon to be a former GE employee once ABB takes the wheel. I'll miss GE since I've been with them for nearly 30 years but, I look forward, not backwards.
how was your job experience now?
@@hongtaozhong1172 it's been good however, you won't believe this but, ABB sold our lone plant here in Maine to a small (1,200 employees) company out of Italy named M.S.AMBROGIO and we've been under their ownership for just a couple months. But, it seems as if we're heading in a better direction. They are laser focused on building up our plant for a better, stronger future and this is their first full manufacturing facility in the United States.
@@hongtaozhong1172 great so far. 👌
Nice commercial, dudes!
But you should see the Toyota car factory, it would blow your mind!
Mmmm, just like mom used to make!
Nice to hear the voicover guy from LWT.... Miss his announcements!
I am glad robots will be part of the final solution :)
It's good that robots do these kinds of jobs. I'd kill myself if I'd work stacking pancakes for 30 years. These machines free people to more useful things.
Ilyich Ulyanov like more time for heroin
Like waiting for their welfare checks...
Talking about how these robots benefit for hygiene standards but the video clearly show humans touching these pancakes, they are not even wearing gloves!
J'adore Dualscar Disgusting, and wearing rings too, making things worse!
i wish i had one of these to clean my room.
lol thats the only robotic machine they got at honeytop... most the stuff is done by hand!! , theres no hygiene or health and safety at the work place. iv even seeen big rats running around lmao
raja g Disgusting, and wearing rings too, making things worse!
This is an awesome video, can you make a ABB Robot to get me out of bed when I'm called in to work early?
Of course. Works with most food stuffs.
The standard of living increases as production increases. The internet for example has replaced many jobs, but has made our lives easier.
They're not robbing anyone from jobs. They're simply performing better at repetitive, monotonous tasks than humans could. These machines free people. If the same work can be done cheaper, better and with a fraction of the cost that makes products cheaper and more available. You aren't suggesting we'd get rid of tractors and start plowing field by hand or start weaving fabrics by hand? No one could afford food or clothes in that case.
The goal is to shift jobs from unskilled, menial labor (like stacking pancakes) to skilled, higher-paying jobs, like people who design and maintain the robots. What's so bad about that?
That's bad because those jobs will be out sourest to the cheapest bidder. That out souring started 25 years ago.
@@johnbrown6189 So you say that good jobs will be done poorly if people are paid very little for them?
@@samuels1123 yes. Why bust your ass for a company that does not recognize your worth? Move on to a company that does.
I couldn't work there... They'd lose too much money.
Never thought i would ever hear these words: "400 pancakes per minute"
Very smart technology, very fast and amazing.
So awesome. Stuff like this is long overdue. In fact, it's a pancake factory. Why does it have workers at all?
Nice music choice too, you get the robotic feeling in there
Superior mechanized pancake precision. Nothing will stop the pancake stackinator.
0:48 FAILS! They are touching the pancakes without proper gloves, WTF!!!
What is ABB and the food companies going to do when people no longer have jobs to buy their products? Is everybody just going to fix robots. Then what happens when that work is out sourced?
I'm an automation specialist and l don't see anybody addressing these issues and that's a real problem.
And it's even strong enough to pick up pancakes!
Awesome robot! Hopefully the workers will seize the factory. What would be better than a worker-owned pancake co-op? Not much!
wow thats an awesome robot. What puzzles me is why the operator at one part of the video still used his bare hands to handle the pancakes.
irony on the hygiene.
nice robotic machine but i less agree hygienic handling of food after seeing worker picking pancake with no gloves START at 0:47
also he wears a ring
What was with that final solution joke? Too soon man.
Paul McDonagh Well they did also have black people working on the line there, soon to be obsolete. You know like with tractors and farming equipment before. Got to love ABB 😂
No pancakes were harmed during the filming of this video.
But rumors suggest otherwise from some who claim there were some pancakes who escaped.
ABB is a German company.
Let's all take a moment to think about the fact that we live in a world with such a thing as pancake robots.
yes you are funny :)
no, because there would be no way for me to stack them all, but with this new technology anything could be possible!
this robot bring more economic value for society and other employees will work another one possible
As someone who doesn't have anything to do with this field, it always astonishes me that something that appears so technologically complicated is cheaper than hiring people to do the same job. Impressive stuff, robotics chaps.
one investment of $10000 is cheaper than infinity investments of $10 over 1001 months
@@samuels1123 that’s an 83 year payback period!
@@ldnelso2 and by that time the human worker likely would retire so you must spend money to find a new one, the machine may experience breakdowns but this is made up for by not requiring sleep or breaks or food or survivable work conditions
@@samuels1123 Yeah, thats the payoff. Safety and consistent operation. Sometimes (like this case) there isn't a direct financial ROI, but if you can operate more safely and consistently and save someone from monotonous, repetitive work that may cause injuries. The machine would probably need to be replaced 10 times during the payback period, but again, it can be worth it overall.
I think this is all about the time cost, hygiene and quality. When considered with those, the price of the machines seems quite fair.
The simple fact is that people are no longer prepared to do this kind of work because of the very high risk of developing Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). Machines are the only viable long term solution.
@MrSmartypants - Comprise - meaning to have members. The system is comprised of 4 FlexPickers.
Did I hear MANUAL inspection? Whats this? cant make a robot check them? eh? how about a camera making a computer check them for inconsistancies?
Gee, though this was all about automation, sheesh... :-) (pulling some legs)
They talk about Hygiene improvement but the workers are handling the pancakes without gloves WTF
@InfectedBeats No problem. Quick link to the phone signal & we get the robot to throw stuff at you until you HAVE to get up. Simple :-)
WTF at 0:51 the guy moves the cakes with his bare hands, what a joke,safety & hygiene???
@mtb416 Well yes, but think about it. They got robots flipping pan cakes! Some PEOPLE have trouble doing that! Now imagine that on a global scale of doing other things. Grunts will not exist one day... pretty soon the orc army will be screwed! (War Craft 3 joke)
What country is this Honeytop factory in? Very nice robot system btw.
@ABB Robotics, so it look like that robot was installed a little over 10 years ago... Is it still chugging along stacking pancakes?
What was used to view the pancakes? OpenCV?
4 Gigabit ethernet cameras
Probably the optimal balance of cost and speed? One picker only goes so fast, especially without damaging the product, but slowing the line down enough for one to do everything could cost too much in the long run vs buying more robots. Also, if one breaks, they'd still have some working units and could maybe slow the feed until it's fixed. Just my guesses though - I've never worked an assembly line.
You'd have thought this could be done a lot cheaper with some well-designed chutes
Fracking awesome! :D I'm about to make pancakes now. If only I had a ABB robitc arm to help me :(
This is why we lost some jobs. I'm all for automation, but that just means that the robot took 4 peoples jobs. The only solution to that while keeping robotics is that those who lost thier jobs move over to the robot building company to make the robots that replaced them at thier old job. Irony at it's best.
I have asked the ABB Robotics training team to what they can come up with.
Before the pAncakes reach the blabal the blabla puchses the pAncakes into the blabla and then check pAncakes for blabla. The pAncakes are then fed into the blabla. The robot put the pAncakes into pAncake position
In other words: pAncakes pAncakes pAncakes pAncakes pAncakes
@NinjaOnANinja I'm sure it's one of the reasons. There is certainly only a finite amount of jobs that can be available at any given time. I wonder if there is an equation that attempts to illustrate the number of jobs lost due to automation and advances in efficiency.
And machines are more productive and cheaper: they're faster, can work 24 hours without fatigue mistakes and save a ton of money on all the costs involved with human labor like salary, training, facilities, management, workers demanding higher pay, dealing with temp workers and theft.
@Scherbenkacks Yeah, but if we do this right, they can be our personal serfs. If we do this wrong the economy will eventually come to ruin.
Henry Ford said it best - cars don't buy cars, people buy cars. same goes here, you won't sell one pancake to a robot.
Yet the even John Connor could not predict the second rebellion. This came when the plant hired Hispanic workers who couldn't read english and ignored the sign! Forever we will be doomed to a life of radioactive pancakes from our captor ABB.
So how many people are going to be fired when these machines come into the workforce? Luddites unite!!!!!!!! This has been happening since the Industrial Revolution....workers losing their jobs and being replaced by machines.
Im all for inventing new technology but not at the cost of taking away a persons job. Obviously everyone who thinks this is good doesnt have a job. That robot probably just put 30 or 40 people out on the street.
it may replace jobs in this inderstry but somebody had to bild it..and install it... so there are new jobs opening up to make install and mantain this new tec..... tho one day humans will bee replaced by replicars U.U
Honeytop needs to invest in some gloves for the human "handlers" before they have an E. coli outbreak. One of them was wearing a ring (0:48)-- that's gotta be great for bring all sorts of contamination into the food supply.
"Speaking about the final solution..." WTF
thats a lot of effeort just for pancakes, i think we should be looking at how we can use technology to feed the poor/sick
Nom Nom! NOT!!..... Flipping Pancakes with his bare hands wearing jewellery and NOgloves!!... mmmmmmmm yummy Honey Top Pancakes.......lmfao well planned advertising campaign... Nuggets!!
Example of the trends to replace human labor for companies to increase profits. BTW this process didn't appear to be more hygienic when I saw humans touching the pancakes without gloves.
Glad you like it.
roffles waffles
Time out people. Who the hell buys pre-made pancakes? PANCAKES!! Unbelievable. I can't even begin to fathom the technology that goes into waffle production.
The bad part is people are too lazy to get an education in those fields so they just blab about how robots are taking their "menial labor" jobs.
Remove humans and replace them with robots... Sorry people are to stupid to do the simplest of tasks.
who buys pancakes? How hard is it too add water to mix and fry? I can't imagine a one day or 7 day pancake would taste very good.
I agree. That doesn't seem like super hygiene if they use their bare hands to touch the pancakes.
lol technology in essence will always be good for humanity. but Connor will save us all if skynet gets online one day . jejej
So kids, get your degree in engineering and you'll stay at the front of the curve when it comes to automation of labor.
this may be a redundant comment, but who eats ready made pancakes? even with a mix, they take like 10 minutes to make
Haha, ABB, also known as Wolf. It changed... Sheesh this is old.
I remember my first job at a McDonalds 30 years ago. We would mix up batter and cook the "hotcakes" when ordered. Now everything seems to by flash freeze and microwaved. Same with Dunkin Donuts, their donuts are frozen as well.
"their donuts are frozen as well"
WHAAAAAAT! You mean, no more 'time to make the donuts'?
I got my pancakes and they were missing a dowel and 5mm hex bolt.
Instructions didn't make any sense either.
those poor people at home hoping they had their jobs back dying of hunger wishing they had one last pancake.
This made pancakes interesting.
mmmm, robot made pancakes
It isn't sad, in this monetary system it might be, but the advancement of a civilization isn't sad -_-
why are the people handling the pancakes not wearing gloves?
Wonderful product. But, I could have done without seeing human hands touch the pancake.
nice robot, to get only 1 pancake towards the belt you could make the sides push the pancakes like \ conveyor belt / then put in the robot and stack the other 2
No thought has been made as to WHY the robots where needed in the first place or how the job could be easier for the humans that did it in the beginning (flawed logical process).
lol the FLEXPICKER!! XD 400 pancakes per minute! hot damn
As someone else said -- WHY NO GLOVES; WHAT KIND OF HYGIENE IS THAT !!! DISGRACEFUL.
im trying to finish a hello world script whilst the pancakes have advanced in technology.
Wait a second... people buy pre-made pancakes? They take like 30 seconds to make.
Pour ramasser les ordures dans le caniveau à saint michel c’est pratique
Ou sur les aires d’autoroute
now really... how hard is it to mix flour, water, egg, vanilla, and sugar.
Yes, and then we have to get more education to get better, more brainy jobs!
In the long run, they are better off losing this mundane, brainless job.
Congrats, the world is fucked when this becomes the new working class.
This is why people are having so much trouble finding jobs.
just to be sure, this is a joke... Right ?
There's an error at 1:28 or so, where the robot is picking/placing 2 pancakes on the conveyor belt... it places 3, where 2 pancakes are stacked upon each other.
It's probably a statistical error. The line passes through multiple robots, each pass picks more of what got missed before. In the end some small allowable fraction get fed to reject bin or a restart loop.
High-volume production is about balancing high score with low cost, not about achieve perfect score at any cost.
0:52 the operators arent using gloves , hrmmmm noty