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Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara and the State Council of Science and Technology of Jalisco (COECYTJAL) made alliance for production of a functional prototype that peels, bones and cuts the fruit of handle .
The device can use processing industry fruit , was designed by researchers Biomechatronics Research Chair and by students of the race in Mechatronics Engineering.
The project worked in five students in the career of Mechatronics Engineering (IMT), three assistants and three teachers assigned to the Biomechatronics Research Chair of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, directed by Dr. Joel Huegel West.
After three semesters, the students presented the “Automated Processing of mango fruit” to officials of the State Council of Science and Technology of Jalisco (COECYTJAL), which sponsored the project with an amount of 100 thousand pesos, to be developed in the Laboratory of Biomechatronics Campus Guadalajara.
The machine is intended to perform the complete processing of mango, peeled, cut and bone, actions carried out in the fruit processing industry. This machine can be used in high production plants as well as low production at an affordable cost, which is a benefit for mango producers intend to industrialize.
Currently there are similar machines that perform stripping and / or cutting the handle but they are of foreign origin and require the interaction of people to place the fruit and to remove the final product, activities that pose a risk for people who run them.
Added to this is that the mango industry in Mexico, the producer receives only 12% of what the final consumer pays because the product lacks the added value provided by the processing of the fruit.
By contrast, the “Automated Processing of mango fruit” works on the principle of numerical control lathe or (CNC), because the handle is rotated by an arrow for processing with clamping tools, peeled and cut. The end result of mango pulp halves without skin or bone.
OPPORTUNITIES
This project arose out of the business opportunity that was presented for the implementation of a machine that would automate the processing of mango.
The initiative is led by students Justin Paulin Alan Quezada, Manuel Alejandro Garcia Gutierrez, Sergio Antonio Pedraza De Loera, Daniel Carrillo Rod and Antonio Vega Rodriguez, who set a goal of starting a business in the field, at the end of the manufacturing of the machine.
Importantly, the flexibility that the machine has an opportunity to break into the industry to small producers, because the investment required is accessible through cooperatives or government support.
As of today we have a working prototype. The next step is the implementation of the power stage and the system handle to separate the end product of waste material. Once that stage, it will start to climb the prototype with the necessary materials for possible markets and implements in the industry.
When this machine has completed the necessary changes be made to process other fruits. It is estimated that the cost will be approximately 500 thousand pesos.
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