The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is pleased to announce Dr. Lars Hinrichsen, Dr. Konrad Ahlin, and Chafik Barbar will be the featured speakers in the symposium entitled “Automation in the Global Meat Industry” on Monday, June 13, 2022, during the 75th AMSA Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC). This session will be sponsored by Nestle Purina.
Dr. Lars Hinrichsen, executive vice president for the Danish Technological Institute, will start this session speaking about how robotic production cells will conquer the arena propelled by low cost, advanced sensor systems, and artificial intelligence in the near future in his talk entitled, “We Need to Rethink Production Technology for Meat Packers - The Old Cutting Table is Being Revived.” A leap is taken toward a production system operating 24 hours a seven days a week, with the first robotic production cell fabrication underway at a meatpacking facility. A set of self-learning collaborating robots will undertake complex operations. Knowledge and self-learning algorithms will become an essential asset on the meatpackers balance sheet. Existing technology will be disrupted, and first movers will get ahead of their competition: The moment for decision is coming close.