Marel Hf

Stefan Axelsson

Brynjolfur Thorsson

A method of processing items such as pieces of meat, by providing a stream of items by means of a primary conveyor means, allocating at least partly by means of a computer system one or more of said items to one of at least two workstations where said items are processed, e.g. cut and/or trimmed, resulting in one or more processed items, registering in said computer system information about a return of at least one of said one or more processed items to said primary conveyor means, and returning said at least one of said one or more processed items to said primary conveyor means in accordance with said information about a return, wherein the method further comprises keeping track of said items including when they are taken out and put back on the primary conveyor. The invention further relates to a processing system for carrying out the method.

Method for processing items such as pieces of meat

The invention relates to a workstation of a food item processing system, said workstation comprising a food item reception area for receiving food items at the workstation from a primary conveyor of the food item processing system, a food item dispatch area for returning processed food items to the primary conveyor, a computer registration device arranged for obtaining information about a return of a processed food item from said food item dispatch area to said primary conveyor and sending said information to a computer system.

Workstation of a food item processing system

The invention relates to a method for processing items such as pieces of meat, comprising the steps of providing a stream of itemsby means of a primary conveyor means, allocating at least partly by means of a computer systemone or more of said itemsto one of at least two workstationswhere said itemsare processed, e.g. cut and/or trimmed, resulting in one or more processed items, registering in said computer systeminformation about a return of at least one of said one or more processed itemsto said primary conveyor means, and returning said at least one of said one or more processed itemsto said primary conveyor meansin accordance with said information about a return. The invention further relates to a system for processing items such as pieces of meat, said system comprising the means essential to carry out the above-mentioned method.

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Kopavogur, Iceland

Stefan Axelsson