Automated meat recover off featherbones
22 April 2016
Focus area: Hands-off processing
Program stream: Advanced manufacturing
Project number: 2014-1005
If the featherbones can be cleanly separated or prised off the primal cut, leaving all the meat/gristle/fat behind, then the weight of the adjacent primal cut would be increased by this “recovered” meat.
This R&D Project was to take a close look at this task and to create concepts that might have potential for further development. The final concept would need to support a production method that would be economic based on the value of the recovered meat alone.