Pulsar Industry at the Industrial AI Challenge 2022

Pulsar Industry has been selected by HIT – Hub Innovazione Trentino among the protagonists of the 2022 edition

The Hub Innovazione Trentino Foundation (HIT) is an instrumental body of the Autonomous Province of Trento and a research and knowledge dissemination organization in accordance with the discipline of the European Union. HIT promotes and enhances the scientific-technological research activities and results of its founders: University of Trento, Edmund Mach Foundation, Bruno Kessler Foundation and Trentino Sviluppo.

The Industrial AI Challenge is an initiative that allows the selected companies to discover and test the benefits of Artificial Intelligence for analysis and optimization of industrial production processes thanks to the involvement of seven groups of students that, in two months’ time, will be performing advanced statistical analyses and, applying Machine Learning techniques, creating predictive models based on the data provided by the selected companies.

Pulsar Industry, with offices in Spilamberto (Modena) and Rovereto (Trento) offers complete industrial automation and factory software solutions for the food industry through the design and manufacturing of automatic / robotic systems for the process, packaging, storage and shipping of final product.

Pulsar Industry presents a challenge aimed to produce an AI model that enables selecting the best semi-finished product for feeding the slicing lines to obtain minimum waste and increase productivity, thus improving the OEE index.

Pulsar Industry is a young and dynamic company. Born in the mid-1980s, has grown over time to reach the current 70 people. The main strength of the company is the multiplicity of skills that allows it to address all aspects related to the implementation of innovative solutions with high technological content for its customers.

All phases of design and realization of the mechanics, automation and logistics process management software take place completely within the company without the need for external suppliers. This results in integrated projects where simplicity of solution, cleanliness and efficiency benefit the customer, who has a single, competent, and highly motivated partner.

Pulsar Industry’s customers (Amadori, Beretta, Conserve Italia, Grandi Salumifici Italiani, and Rovagnati, to name some but few) operate in the food industry, where strict requirements for quality control and traceability are present, but where, at the same time, it is increasingly important to seek the best in terms of quality, efficiency and, ultimately, marginality.

Pulsar Industry’s consulting at IFFA 2022

Great success for Pulsar Industry present with its huge experience in the field of production process design, factory, department and line layouts.

Pulsar Industry also took part in the 2022 edition of IFFA, the most important international trade fair dedicated to the meat industry, held in Frankfurt from 14 to 19 May.

Pulsar Industry has been active in meat production and processing sector for more than thirty years, and as well as proposing a range of innovative solutions to production and packaging departments, its consultants are also at the customers’ disposal right from the early stages of definition or review of production processes.

Design requires in-depth analysis on customer’s goals; thanks to their expertise in mechanics, automation, robotics and IT, Pulsar Industry technicians are able to manage all phases of development, from the idea to the final design, continuously intertwining their path with the customer’s expectations.

They never give up until simple and innovative solutions with a short ROI are found.The support of the customer in the definition of the processes has the purpose of making them easily automated and improve efficiency.

Hence, Pulsar Industry experts work in the design of line, department and factory layout. Significant attention is paid
to logistics engineering, which is fundamental to get particularly efficient storage and handling systems.

All Pulsar Industry’s design proposals are, finally, integrated by Dynamic, the departmental software for production control and operational management of warehouse logistics entirely designed and developed by Pulsar’s IT experts.

Dynamic is equipped with all the functions necessary to govern the production process in the food industry, from planning to dispatch through the phases of reception, processing, seasoning, packaging and logistics.

Dynamic allows continuous and highly automated monitoring of all field variables that contribute to achieving high productivity while respecting the criteria of efficiency in the use of energy resources (electricity, heat, refrigeration systems). Using Dynamic, Pulsar Industry’s customers (Amadori, Beretta, Bordoni, Conserve Italia, Grandi Salumifici Italiani, PAC2000A, Parmareggio, and Rovagnati, to name some but few) are able to line out the improvements areas of their plants thanks to the Overall Equipment Effectiveness – OEE index. This is the first, crucial step to increase marginality.

Pulsar Industry advanced technological solutions at IFFA 2022

Pulsar Industry presents its extensive range of automation solutions for production processes, automatic packaging and production control.

Pulsar Industry will also participate in IFFA 2022, the most important international trade fair on the meat industry that will take place from 14 to 19 May in Frankfurt.

Pulsar Industry has been in the meat production and processing sector for more than thirty years and produces innovative solutions for production and packaging departments.

The robotized automatic cartooning system for bags and trays: an extremely compact monobloc housing, depending on the packaging process requirements, parallel kinematic robots and anthropomorphous robots that, supported by a cutting-edge vision system, pick the product up, orient it correctly and lay it inside the final container (normal or display).

A complete series of machines covers all ham steak production requirements, from mould making, to repressing after baking, up to the automatic opening of the moulds, emptying and bag packaging of end products.

Out of the bagging machine, either a fully automatic system or, as an alternative, a facilitator that enables the operator to handle very heavy units, operates to form every single bar.

An automatic device arranges layers consisting of various bars, according to their size. The layers are picked by an

anthropomorphous robot or – depending on the speed and payload – by an aisle crane that fills the racks.

A stainless steel shuttle collects the racks and weighs them by means of its weighing cell. In the end the shuttle transfers the racks into the seasoning cells.

The system includes the control parameter management of the cells and the final handling, assisted by the stainless steel shuttles and anthropomorphous robots or aisle cranes, toward packaging or slicing lines.

latest solutions, it is worth mentioning fully robotized plants to make moulds of bresaola and ham for slicing, and stainless steel automatic storage systems provided with stainless steel, auto-sanitizing travelling lifts able to handle crates of fresh meat and semi-processed products.

It is also possible to carry out integrated analysis on manpower, energy consumption, other industrial expenses, machine stops at any work cycle, and production efficiency basing on Overall Equipment Effectiveness – OEE index.

Using Dynamic Pulsar Industry’s customers can line out the improvements areas of their plants thanks to the OEE index.

This is the first, crucial step to increase marginality.

Pulsar Industry advanced technological solutions at ANUGA 2022

Pulsar Industry presents its extensive range of automation solutions for production processes, automatic packaging and production control

Pulsar Industry will participate in ANUGA 2022, the most important international trade fair on the food industry that will take place from 26 to 29 April in Cologne.

Pulsar Industry has been in the food production and processing sector for more than thirty years and produces innovative solutions for production and packaging departments.

For salami and ham seasoning, Pulsar Industry presents a modular solution to create a bagging, hanging and loading unit formation line. It features a level of automation tailored upon customer’s requirements. Out of the bagging machine, either a fully automatic system or, as an alternative, a facilitator that enables the operator to handle very heavy units, operates to form every single bar. An automatic device arranges layers consisting of various bars, according to their size. The layers are picked by an anthropomorphous robot or – depending on the speed and payload – by an aisle crane that fills the racks. A stainless steel shuttle collects the racks and weighs them by means of its weighing cell. In the end the shuttle transfers the racks into the seasoning cells.

This fully integrated system enables monitoring the daily weight loss in the cells thanks to the shuttles’ automatically weighing any loading unit, thus providing the most complete product seasoning and quality levels Among Pulsar Industry’s latest solutions, it is worth mentioning fully robotized plants to make moulds of bresaola and ham for slicing, and stainless steel automatic storage systems provided with stainless steel, auto-sanitizing travelling lifts able to handle crates of fresh meat and semi-processed products.

In addition to this, the company also produces robotized systems for turkey load and discharge, robotized sorters for production departments for the handling of portioned meat and semi-processed products, and robotized palletizing plants for pallet making for finished product storage. It is also possible to carry out integrated analysis on manpower, energy consumption, other industrial expenses, machine stops at any work cycle, and production efficiency basing on Overall Equipment Effectiveness – OEE index.

Pulsar Industry engineers and manufactures the mechanics, control boards, equipment and automation. All plants are provided with the departmental software Dynamic, which as well as including traceability and quality files management, it also reads and compare all function data in such a way as to provide efficiency and productivity graphics in real time. Using Dynamic Pulsar Industry’s customers can line out the improvements areas of their plants thanks to the OEE index. This is the first, crucial step to increase marginality.

Pulsar Industry Academy

Pulsar Industry is a company specialized in the development of complex systems based on innovative hybrid cloud architectures and data analysis methods with the use of artificial intelligence algorithms, and in the integration with industrial automation solutions based on a wide use of robots and cobots.

Active in several product sectors, it holds leadership positions in the Food & Beverage industry. in the design and implementation of integrated systems for automation, logistics and process control.

If you choose a career with us, you will enter in a stimulating environment that takes care of the knowledge capital with internal programs of Continuous Learning and constant research of innovation, also through the collaboration with Universities and Research Centers, with which AI applications have been realized.

We are expanding the technical office of mechanical design and the software development department in which we want to insert functional analysts, with knowledge of management/administrative areas and management control, and Senior Developer in .NET/C#/Ms-SQLServer environment, but we will also consider applications for junior positions.

Required Skills and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent training, in Mechanical Engineering for mechanical designer positions, in business/computer science for functional analyst positions, and in Computer Engineering for senior developer positions

Completing the candidate picture:

Predisposition to work in a team, ability to interact with business users
Availability to short trips on national and foreign territory
Excellent knowledge of Italian and English language

We offer you a position within the project development team where you will be involved in the different phases of planning and design of solutions, implementation, testing and start-up in the field, working directly under the Technical Director.

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