Foodmate Optix Switch
Intelligent Thigh & optional Drumstick Deboning
Foodmate brings you another intelligent deboning solution!
The most successful Thigh Deboner with X-Ray technology now offers the ability to debone drumsticks as well!
The Intelligent Thigh Deboner with option to debone drumsticks
The new OPTiX Switch Thigh & Drum Deboner is designed to process whole anatomic legs into two separate products: deboned thighs and optionally deboned drumsticks (the user can “Switch” between the options). Skin removal is also optional. The machine offers integration with the Flex Cut-up System and accommodates a wide variation of bird sizes.
The machine adjusts in real time for each leg on the line.
Hanging Area
The OPTiX Switch, with a capacity of 7200 legs per hour, can be loaded by two operators. The special design of the shackle ensures easy loading. The system is capable for processing both left and right legs.
X-Ray
X-Ray technology for detecting the kneecap and measuring the thigh and drum length, ensures the highest possible yield.
Drum Lengthwise-Cut
To ensure optimal deboning, the leg must be cut along the drum bone. A special designed unit makes a precise cut along the bone without damaging the meat or the bone.
Thigh Pre-Cut
The Thigh Pre-Cut Station cuts with surgical precision to separated the thigh and drum meat ensuring an optimal yield.
Thigh Skinner
The Thigh Skinning Unit removes the skin from the thigh. The unit can be bypassed for skin on thigh meat.
Thigh Meat Scraping
The thigh meat is efficiently and carefully scraped from the bone to ensure maximum yield.
Thigh Meat Harvesting
With a precise cut beneath the thigh bone, the thigh meat harvesting station maximizes yield by leaving only minimal meat on the bone.
Thigh Bone / Drumstick Separator
After the thigh meat is scraped from the bone, the thigh is separated from the drumstick.
Drum Pre-Cut
A horizontal moving device will cut the drum skin and tendons, leaving the pin bone attached to the drum bone.
Drum Skinner
The Drum Skinning Unit removes the skin from the drumstick. The unit can be bypassed for skin on drum meat.
Drum Meat Scraper
The drum meat is efficiently and carefully scraped from the bone, leaving the pin bone on the drum bone.
Drum Meat Harvester
With a precise cut beneath the drum bone, the drum meat cutting station maximizes yield by leaving only minimal meat on the bone.
Drum Bone Unloader
The drum bone is unloaded from the shackle and returns to the hanging area, ready to be reloaded.
Foodmate OPTiX Thigh Deboner
How OPTiX SWITCH gets it done!
X-Ray Technology + Cut-up Line Integration
The OPTiX Switch brings a combination of durable mechanics and cutting-edge technology in automation, ensuring the highest possible yields and meat quality. Click on the play button below to see OPTiX Switch in action!
Foodmate OPTiX Switch Thigh and optional Drum Deboner
Are you ready for OPTiX Switch
Foodmate informs that during the last 12 months, during the implementation of activities related to the commissioning of machines generating ionizing radiation, dose limits for employees and members of the general population were not exceeded.
Due to the abovementioned, it is concluded that the exposure activities carried out by the organizational unit had no negative impact on human health and the environment.
Foodmate also informs that the conducted activity related to exposure does not release radioactive substances into the environment.