Fruit Peeler And Slicer Machine

Philippines being an agricultural country is one of the major supplier of food and food products in other countries and there are different varieties of fruit- bearing plants planted not only in mountains, fields and farms but even in the backyard of a Filipino family. These plants are beneficial and offer profit to the people because the fruits that they produced can be used as food which provide vitamins, minerals and other nutrients essential for the proper functioning of our body. In addition, various studies prove how fruits are significant not only to the heath of the people but to the industry as well since our country can supply fruits and other fruit products abroad.

Our province is also rich in fruits ranging from very small to large. There are also fruits that require to be peeled and sliced before eating such as papaya, breadfruit, santol, jackfruit, banana, chico and many more and similar with other crops, fruits are also important source of      income for farmers in Marinduque.

However, most of the fruits are seasonal that is why it is necessary to preserve in order to keep for a long period. In fact, Villanueva (2016), an ECE graduate student at Marinduque State College develop an automated fruit peeler and slicer machine that can help and give convenient on processing of fruits. Nevertheless, their machine needs a further innovation in terms of peeling and slicing of fruit. Even though it is automated, it cannot peel both ends of the fruit and the fruit are still manually place to the gripping assembly.

Furthermore, to cope with the increasing demand of fruits and fruit products abroad we need to utilize our sources so that we can easily export these products to other countries. The problem that we are facing with regards to this is the production of products though there are increasing supplies of the raw materials there is difficulty on how to produce good qualities in terms of peeling and slicing since mostsmall scale farmers used the traditional way of doing these processes.

As such, we should develop different kinds of fruit peeling and slicing machine to help farmers to make their work easier and more convenient. Best quality of fruit process products undergo for peeling and slicing process.

With the above scenario, the researchers decided to conduct a study about construction and development of automated peeler and slicer machine using electro pneumatic that could be used by farmers to easily peel and slice fruits specifically breadfruit (rimas) and papaya. Otherwise, fruit peeling and slicing processes faces numerous problems because of the influencing parameters. That is why fruit peeling and slicing machine developed from time to time. The input of mechanical engineering aspect needs to obtain the high efficiency output.

The development of slicer and peeler will increase quality of fruits being slice or peel, conserve time and energy in the peeling and slicing of fruit. It will reduce the dependency on imported machines and as well serves as source of income for farmers and fruit processor.