New Processing Equipment: February 2023
Dough handling can be a dangerous, demanding job. Risks to worker safety, coupled with the increasing pressure to provide conserve costs while delivering quality, are making automation appealing, and efficiency necessary, when selecting bakery equipment. The following dough handling solutions offer balance worker safety with other necessities.
Company: Apex Motion Control
Website: apexmotion.com
Manufacturing environments typically present a number of dangers to workers, and snack and bakery production operations are no exceptions. The Baker-Bot line of cobots can reduce that exposure to injury risk, repetitive motion, and other potential harm by using advanced technology to tackle various tasks in place of a worker, leaving the human beings free to focus on other tasks.
According to Jamie Bobyk, marketing consultant, Apex Motion Control, automated solutions like the company’s Baker-Bot line of equipment can coexist peacefully with humans.
“Cobots, like the Baker-Bot for example, can be operated safely alongside human workers without the need for big industrial guarding and fencing,” says Bobyk. “The user interface gives a familiar feel to any level of worker—if you used a smart phone or tablet chances are you will be able to manage the Baker-Bot.”
The newest addition to the line, the Baker-Bot MAX, offers double the payload of the previous model, handling more heavy-duty tasks while remaining user-friendly. It also offers a reach of 67 inches, and it can handle a range of demanding industrial tasks.
Company: Handtmann
Website: www.handtmann.us
Snack and bakery operations are increasingly under pressure to do more with less, in less time. Because of all these pressures, according to Ken Hagedorn (vice president, bakery sector, Handtmann), producers must be able to rely upon dough handling systems and other equipment.
“Besides labor utilization, product quality, general input efficiency, and the reduction of giveaway among other demands, the production pressures of the last few years have made reliability even more important,” Hagedorn points out. “Our customers have been addressing the added risks with more focus on the timeliness, quality, and their control over maintenance.”
The company’s WS 910 checkweigher works with other equipment to help provide accurate portioning, automatic ejection, and centralized line synchronization that users narrow min/max parameters dramatically and reduce waste. According to the supplier, the portioning, sorting, and control system offers a turnkey solution that reduces cost via continuous production and a high degree of accuracy.
Company: Reading Bakery Systems
Website: www.readingbakery.com
Manufacturing environments typically present a number of dangers to workers, and snack and bakery production operations are no exceptions. The Baker-Bot line of cobots can reduce that exposure to injury risk, repetitive motion, and other potential harm by using advanced technology to tackle various tasks in place of a worker, leaving the human beings free to focus on other tasks.
According to Jamie Bobyk, marketing consultant, Apex Motion Control, automated solutions like the company’s Baker-Bot line of equipment can coexist peacefully with humans.
“Cobots, like the Baker-Bot for example, can be operated safely alongside human workers without the need for big industrial guarding and fencing,” says Bobyk. “The user interface gives a familiar feel to any level of worker—if you used a smart phone or tablet chances are you will be able to manage the Baker-Bot.”
The newest addition to the line, the Baker-Bot MAX, offers double the payload of the previous model, handling more heavy-duty tasks while remaining user-friendly. It also offers a reach of 67 inches, and it can handle a range of demanding industrial tasks.