ATHENS, Ga. — In the most competitive FABricate contest to date, Sean Snarey, a graduate student in agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, took home the $10,000 prize recently for his automated poultry rehanging system.
Through his company, TLS, Snarey is developing a system to automate a labor-intensive step in poultry processing that has one of the highest labor turnover rates in the poultry industry.
Poultry rehanging requires workers to lift partially processed chickens and hang them on shoulder-height hooks around 20 times. . .
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