MCA Process, a company specialising in the design and construction of automated processes for the agri-food industry, called on Psycle to meet a requirement for unscrewing bare products. Estelle Le Pape, the company’s CEO, and Camille Clemont, the automation engineer on the project, tell their stories:
What did you need to automate?
E. Le Pape: Our customer needed to pick different products from bins and then place them in trays according to a precise pattern. It’s a fairly complex Pick&Place operation, but one that’s relatively common in catering ranges.
The partnership with Psycle opens up exciting new possibilities for the automation of agri-food processes.
What role does the Psycle software play in this process?
C Clemont: Its role is to interpret the images taken by the cameras and transform them into positioning information that can be used to calculate the robot’s trajectory in real time.
And what are the advantages of the Psycle solution?
C Clemont: Psycle vision software can recognise any product. And it learns very quickly. This allows us to be very responsive to recipe changes.
Beyond the technical arguments, why does the partnership with Psycle make sense?
E. Le Pape: When it comes to a technology like vision, which is becoming essential in automation, I think it’s important that we have a partner who shares our mindset. Psycle, like MCA Process, listens closely to its customers and supports them in developing customised solutions. We also share the same desire to innovate, to do better and better for industrial processes.