DR2 Roll-Up Delta Robot in Production

Steck Depositors Limited, with a long-standing record of innovation in the food production industry, is pleased to lead the field and announce the first roll-up delta robot to be installed in full-time production in the sandwich industry. We have listened to our customers and responded to their needs. Fully proven and globally compliant, the DR2 Delta Robot takes sandwich production to the next level.

"The next best thing for sliced bread!"

In mid-2019, the first two Steck DR2 robots went online at a large sandwich manufacturer in the north of England. The robots' task sounds simple: place a stripe of starch onto a wrap as they pass by at 60 per minute in two lanes on a conveyor. In practice, however, things are a bit more complicated; the wraps are not uniform in size and they aren't placed regularly on the belt, so the Steck 'RuggedEye' vision system picks out the wraps in real time and tells the robot over the CANBUS Network where best to place the starch stripe. So far 11 million wraps have been starched, with only routine machine maintenance being provided by the customer's existing engineering team.

The DR2 is a game changer for our customers and marks a turning point in the food production industry. But at Steck we will not stop there. We have already started to explore building on the machine's capabilities, such as lidding solutions, and beyond that we are already looking at development of the DR3 delta robots. Our commitment to leading and innovating and delivering for our customers is as strong as it has ever been.