Agriculture and Food Production
We collaborate closely with our clients to merge their experience with the skills of our electrical, mechanical, software, biomedical, and chemical engineers. Together, our agricultural product development team can help bring your design from a fuzzy initial concept all the way to stream-lined production. Our engineers don’t just work from the office or at a computer, we’re ready to literally “test it in the field”. Whether it is a ranch down the road or a dairy farm a continent away, we’ve been there, done that, and are ready for more. This extensive experience also enables us to help you design your product to comply with worldwide food safety regulations including FDA’s Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO), ISO standards, ICAR guidelines, and Dairy Farmers of Canada as well as 3-A Sanitary Standards for hygienic food equipment design.
Here are a few of the ways our agriculture product development firm can assist with your next project:
Harvesting
Our product development team can help realize innovations meant to increase the speed and efficiency of the agricultural harvesting process. Improved designs for mechanical harvesters, development of specialized equipment, and incorporation of automation and robotics makes farming safer, more cost-effective, and more sustainable. Establishment of optimized harvest techniques results in less waste and a better yield.
Food Packaging
From farm to table, innovative agriculture packaging technologies ensure safer, better quality, and more sustainable food products. Improved packaging materials are more durable, more environmentally friendly, and provide a better contaminant barrier to enhance food safety. Advancements in the software used for transportation and logistics planning results in food arriving at consumers in a fresher state.
Dairy
Our team has extensive experience with dairy farm operations and designing systems to meet the rigorous 3-A sanitation standards. We can assist with projects such as robotic milking systems for conventional and rotary parlors, wireless herd tracking systems, and large farm automation for milk tank cooling, cleaning, and flow controls. Tech-powered health monitoring systems make for a healthier herd and improve owner awareness. Automated milking systems improve efficiency by minimizing human intervention, reducing milking times, and creating a more comfortable hygienic environment for livestock. While these automated milking systems can be very complex, navigating this complexity is something that Sparx excels at.
Process Automation
Our engineers can develop automated machinery and robotics built to process food more quickly, as well as sort, grade, and package with speed and precision. Artificial intelligence systems can be incorporated to monitor processes to predict upcoming maintenance needs and adaptively improve decision-making. Automated sanitation systems mean a cleaner work environment and fewer opportunities for contamination.
FDA and Regulatory Compliance
Agricultural products must comply with Food and Drug Administration standards and other governing bodies such as 3-A Sanitation Standards for food safety and Sparx Engineering has the experience to help you through this process. These standards require specific processes to be applied to engineering design and development to ensure public health and safety from the end product. Sparx engineers will work with you to ensure that the appropriate standards are incorporated into your project to ensure your specific product to ensure that the final product meets all required regulations.
Sparx Engineering—An Agriculture Product Development Firm
Our engineering firm consists of a team of licensed engineers skilled in electronics, mechanical, software, biomedical, chemical, and automation systems. With over 500 years of combined engineering experience, our industry knowledge is far greater than any single competitor.
This breadth of expertise gives us the interdisciplinary capacity to take on complex agricultural product development problems. This is our edge and how we can bring our customers exactly what they need when they need it.
Where many competitors focus solely on design or prototyping, we provide a full suite of services, and a comprehensive approach that streamlines the development process and ensures continuity from problem definition to requirements, design, integration, and verification.