{"id":5118,"date":"2018-04-26T13:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apexdyna.nl\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:01:00","slug":"straight-gearbox-harvesting-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apexdyna.nl\/en\/gearboxes\/straight-gearbox-harvesting-robot","title":{"rendered":"Gearbox is crucial in asparagus harvesting robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whiteDid you ever harvest asparagus as a way to earn some money as a teenager? Nowadays this is done mainly by foreign workers, but even those are less and less happy doing this kind of work. But how to get the asparagus come on your plate? Cerescon<\/a> is a young, fast developing high-tech startup that has developed an automatic asparagus harvesting machine to solve this problem.<\/p>\n

“White asparagus are now only harvested by hand,” says Technical Director Ad Vermeer. “That is hard work for which growers can find more and more difficult workers to do this job. In addition, the current method has limitations on the quality of the harvested products (damage) and the yield (non-grown asparagus that can only be harvested the next harvest round). This harvest is therefore ready for automation. ”<\/p>\n

\"traditionaHistory of Cerescon<\/h2>\n

In 2014, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se van Vinken, Ad and Marc Vermeer founded Cerescon\u00a0 with the aim of developing a well-functioning asparagus harvesting robot. The experience of Marc as a grower and Ad as a high-tech machine builder was perfectly combined with the management experience of Th\u00e9r\u00e8se who acts as General Manager. When Marc died at the end of 2014 after a short illness, Ad and Th\u00e9r\u00e8se continued with the development. His input of the asparagus application knowledge was picked up by the User Group (strongly interested clientele of Cerescon) and by the Wageningen University of Research.<\/p>\n

World premiere: selective, automatic asparagus harvest<\/h2>\n

During the development of the machine, Cerescon was the first company in the world to successfully demonstrate the feasibility of automatically and selectively harvesting asparagus. Selective harvesting means that only those asparagus are harvested that are fully grown; the remaining asparagus must remain (undamaged) to be harvested a few days later. This is a breakthrough: it is clear to Cerescon and its customers that the asparagus harvesting will change forever.<\/p>\n

\"Sparter,<\/p>\n

This machine, called Sparter<\/a>, is still under development. A beta version of the machine was extensively tested in the 2017 season by Wageningen University of Research and by a number of large growers from Cerescon’s User Group. In 2018 the first Sparter is sold and demonstrations are organized at some asparagus growers. The Sparter offers the following benefits to the grower:<\/p>\n