Industry Top Issues: Technology, Automation & Productivity

Industry advancement being prevented by the increasing gap in current and future R&D and industry implementation
Lack of understanding about existing technology and its application in other markets.

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Robotic Removal of Button Bone and Flat Bone after Striploin Chine Bone Removal – Stage 1 Practical Feasibility

Apr 9, 2020

The current practice of removal of cutting out button and flat bones from a striploin beef primal piece requires manual effort and separation using a powered cutter as well as sharp knives. For the ...

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Blockchain for the Meat Industry: Where and How?

Apr 8, 2020

There are instances where red meat products have been falsely marked as products of Australia in order to take advantage of the perception of premium quality. This project was undertaken to help add...

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Automation of Primal Cut Bagging

Nov 18, 2019

Meat processing plants suffer significant labour costs and OH&S risks associate with the manual bagging of meat cuts after processing. This project aims to examine the most effective way of bagg...

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Contemporary chemical lean validation – National Standard for measurement

Apr 10, 2019

Chemical Lean (CL) is defined as the amount of lean red meat compared to the amount of fat in a meat sample. Its determination by an approved method is a mandatory AUS-MEAT requirement for any expor...

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An on-line system to assess beef quality characteristics

Apr 5, 2019

This project evaluated the TenderSpec TM beef classification system for tenderness and marbling. The objectives were to evaluate this U.S. system against Australian cattle to identify tender c...

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Condamine Feedlot Solar Project

Mar 5, 2019

The Teys Condamine Feedlot has reduced energy usage through adopting solar farm technologies. Check out their story here.

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Roadmap Development for a Meat Processing Intelligent Automation Centre

Feb 5, 2019

This project was undertaken to develop a roadmap for the use of intelligent automation (IA) by the Australian meat processing industry. It is intended to pave the way for building an enabler in the ...

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The suitability of standard meat conveyor belt materials for CO2 pellet cleaning

Dec 20, 2018

The project assessed the suitability of dry-ice blasting for polymer-based conveyor belts used in the meat processing industry. Investigations were undertaken to determine the effects of thermal var...

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Can on-site beef dark cutting evaluation (monitoring) be improved and value-added?

Nov 8, 2018

This project explored glycolytic and sensory quality parameter variation within carcasses graded as dark cutting and compared these to normal carcasses. Dark cutting is problematic and in an effo...

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Sensing for Offal Grading and Enablement of Automation

Oct 19, 2018

Since offal inspection requires both internal (excision and/or palpitation) and external (visual) activities, an automated offal inspection station must offer both internal and external inspection m...

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Intelligent Solutions for Boxed Beef Trim Export Enhancement

Jul 12, 2018

Mislabeling of 'beef in box' products, lack of packaging integrity checks and absence of archived and traceable visual data for exported beef products incur significant costs to Australian beef expo...

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3D Dynamic Skeletal Modelling

May 23, 2018

The purpose of this project was to explore the feasibility to extend the usefulness of the X-ray scanning of a carcass to further downstream carcass break-up operations by the use of the carcass&rsq...

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Demonstrating & Trialing of an Internet-Of-Things Solution for Real-Time Computation and Delivery of Plant KPIs

May 18, 2018

This project considered opportunities for introducing Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions to the Australian red meat processing industry, aiming to improve productivity for the worker and...

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An Integrated CO2 Production and CO2-NH3 Cascade Refrigeration System

Feb 12, 2018

Liquefied CO 2 is used on a daily basis in the red meat industry to produce dry ice snow for product cooling applications. Traditionally, it has been cost prohibitive for abattoirs to invest in the...

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Microplasma Disinfection of Meat

Jan 24, 2018

The prevention and control of bacterial contamination is vital to the reputation and commercial viability of meat processors. This work investigated the new opportunity presented by micro-plasma ...

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X-Ray OCM Bone, Fat and Muscle Trials

Jan 22, 2018

The purpose of this project was to investigate the ability of an automated beef rib cutting system to accurately perform objective carcase measurement (OCM) on beef sides for fat, lean and bone comp...

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Automated visual inspection and preparation of live animals for meat processing

Jan 12, 2018

The purpose of this research project was to design and develop an automated cattle inspection and washing station that improves the cleanliness of cattle prior to entering the knocking box. This ...

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Technology evaluation for fat removal for beef striploins

Jan 11, 2018

This project has researched the processes of fat trimming with the objective to determine automation feasibility to achieve trimming leaving a uniform layer of fat on beef striploin primal pieces. ...