Automated Spiral Potato Cutting Machine
The Challenge
TChips' spiral potato production was slow, labor-intensive, and inconsistent — and no commercial machine fully automated tornado potato production from pickup through skewering, cutting, and stretching.
Our Solution
LAUIH developed a custom automated machine covering pickup, piercing, skewering, cutting, stretching, ejection, and self-reset — using linear actuators, a stainless-steel stub, piercing pin, skewer drum, rotary conical blade, and belt-driven motion — backed by SolidWorks CAD, stress, motion, and flow analysis.
The Results
Cycle time dropped from 60 to under 15 seconds, a 4x speedup, and labor went from 7 workers to 1 operator while production efficiency rose 400% with improved spiral uniformity — positioning TChips as a first mover in automated tornado potato production.