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An essential task of beekeepers has been significantly automated by an award-winning Hungarian development that has recently been given a professional manufacturing background. The device stitches and drills a hive frame in eight seconds. Until now, the operation has been carried out exclusively by hand, and the work took about two minutes per piece, writes the press release of the manufacturer, Konkoly Electro Kft.
The release quotes István Petrovics, the machine’s mastermind and prototype maker, as saying that automated stitching and drilling of the hive frames takes fifteen times less time than manual work. Both the designer and the equipment have received numerous awards, including the Hungarian Industrial Target Machine Grand Prix 2023.
His collaboration with Konkoly Electro Kft., a company specializing in target machine manufacturing and automation, has now resulted in the first product of the BEEFRAME range suitable for series production. The device can be used to assemble frames of essentially any size and standard, that is important because a wide variety of hive frames are used in international practice.
The press release quotes Szabolcs Konkoly, head of Konkoly Electro Kft., as saying that
the BEEFRAME hive frame assembly machine, although it will not be commercialized until the first quarter of 2025, has already attracted considerable international interest
and that every effort is being made to expand it into a product line as soon as possible, and to achieve the international career that all stakeholders expect from its development.
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A hive requires on average about ten frames per season, depending on the circumstances, and there are approximately 1 million hives in Hungary. The hive frames needed to keep them have so far been assembled manually by farmers in about 2 minutes each.
This represents more than 330,000 working hours every year, that could in principle be reduced to around 22,000 working hours with the general use of the new range of machines.
Via MTI, Featured image: Pixabay