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Published On 24/06/2025

Premiere at Automatica 2025: Robot-Assisted Sandwich station Revolutionises Fresh Food Counters

Balingen, 24/06/2025

| The future of snack preparation starts now. Together with FANUC, the global innovation leader in industrial robotics, and the partners KILIVATIONS, J. Schmalz, and ViscoTec, Bizerba presents a fully automated solution for the hygienic and smart preparation of sandwiches and snacks. Bizerba’s precise slicing technology, FANUC’s state-of-the-art robotics, Schmalz’s vacuum technology, and ViscoTec’s high-precision dosing systems work hand in hand. Everything is orchestrated via the user-friendly platform from KILIVATIONS.

Great interest at automatica 2025: Numerous visitors gather to experience live how the smart sandwich station redefines freshness at the point of sale.

At automatica 2025 in Munich, we demonstrate how industrial precision and modern robotics are now shaping the daily operations of large-scale kitchens, hospitals, petrol stations, and food retail. Visitors will experience how each snack is freshly prepared, contact-free, and tailored to individual needs. Every action of the FANUC cobot follows the strictest hygiene standards – ensuring maximum transparency and consistent quality.
 

A Forward-Looking Partnership: A Joint Solution for the Fresh Food Counter of Tomorrow

In close collaboration with our partners, we are addressing current challenges in food retail. Fresh counters are under increasing pressure: staffing shortages make reliable operation difficult, while customers expect more personalisation and the highest hygiene standards. At the same time, automation has often been considered complex and cost-intensive.

This new robot-assisted sandwich station intelligently relieves a staff-intensive fresh food segment – giving sales teams more capacity to enhance the shopping experience and better meet customer expectations. The system is modular, easy to scale, and adaptable to various retail formats. It reduces staffing requirements, guarantees freshness around the clock, and unlocks new efficiency potentials – without compromising on quality or customer experience.

In addition to bridging staffing gaps, the automated sandwich station sets new standards in sustainability: Precise portioning and demand-driven production help minimise overproduction and waste.

Fresh Inspiration for the Point of Sale

“Our collaboration with FANUC brings industrial precision and smart automation right to the point of sale,” says Ante Todoric, Managing Director Business Unit Retail at Bizerba. “This makes fresh food processes not only more efficient but also delivers important future-oriented impulses for the food retail sector. The new sandwich station stands for three key values: fresh, automated and sustainable.”

Further innovations are already in development – including flexible concepts for hotel lobbies. Bizerba is rethinking fresh food processes: modular, needs-based and customer-focused.

Robot-assisted precision at its best: The automated sandwich station combines slicing, dosing, and handling into one seamless process.
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About Bizerba

Bizerba is one of the world's leading suppliers of precision products and integrated solutions for slicing, processing, weighing, testing, order picking, labeling and payment. As an innovative company, the Bizerba Group is continuously driving forward the digitalization, automation and networking of its products and services.

In this way, Bizerba offers its customers from trade, commerce, industry and logistics greater added value with complete state-of-the-art solutions. From hardware to software, apps, and cloud solutions, all complemented by the appropriate labels or consumables, Bizerba adheres to the motto 'unique solutions for unique people'.

Bizerba was founded in 1866 in Balingen / Baden-Württemberg and is today one of the top players in 120 countries with its solutions portfolio. The family-run company, now in its fifth generation, employs around 4,500 people worldwide and has production facilities in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Serbia, UK, China, Canada and the USA. In addition, the group of companies maintains a worldwide network of sales and service locations. Further information about Bizerba can be found at www.bizerba.com.

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