Kennedy's Bakery Production
ProSweets back with a bang!
Returning for another successful year, ProSweets 2018 took over the city of Cologne from January 28-31 and once again played host to some of the industry’s best and newest developments. The Kennedy’s team was out in force at the show, and in this review, we round-up many of the intriguing discoveries we made.
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aximum flexibility in flowpack packaging
German packaging specialist
Schubert presented its latest develop- ment in TLM technology – the Flowmodul. “Several current orders, combined with the many Flowmoduls already installed, proves that we correctly identi- fied and understood our customers’ needs with our flow-wrapping compo- nent,” says Ralf Schubert, managing director of Gerhard Schubert. “At the fair, the trade visitors' interest in this innova- tion was extremely high.”
The flow-wrapping component, which is fully integrated into the TLM picker line, has successfully established itself in the market since its launch in 2016. It packs many different types of products such as candy bars, biscuits, cakes, 3D chocolate figures, yoghurt cups, ice cream, puff pastry and confectionery waffles. The combination of F4 pick-and-place
robots, 3D image recognition and one or two flow-wrapping components within a TLM system are what make this system
so successful, the company believes. It saves space and, thanks to short changeover times, enables the efficient handling of small batch sizes and a large variety of products. 3D image recogni- tion ensures that the robots only pick up flawless products and place them in the flow-wrapping component’s feed chain. 3D means that not only the rota- tional position, shape and surface of the products to be packaged are detected, but also their height, which for many products, including sandwich biscuits – as demonstrated at ProSweets – is an important quality criterion. An infeed chain speed of 60 metres per minute, fully automatic flight carrier changing with exchangeable cassettes for further for- mats, and format changeovers within one to ten minutes ensure exceptional system performance and low downtimes. With the latest Flowmodul model, Schubert has further simplified acces- sibility for maintenance and cleaning work, and made the suspension of the film rolls more ergonomic. This makes the Flowmodul even more user-friendly
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and more efficient for technicians and machine operators. Schubert is currently working on a new sealing technology which will also enable the use of heat- sealing film in the future, even for sensi- tive products such as chocolate. Elsewhere in the business, Schubert is
also responding to increasing digitalisa- tion by expanding its comprehensive service offering and establishing its own digital platform –
GRIPS.world – which the company also presented at the trade fair.
GRIPS.world is Schubert’s web- based platform, which will (in the future) network the company with its customers and suppliers as well as with the TLM machines, while mapping all important internal business processes for the employees – combined under a single user interface. In the future, Schubert will use the
GS.Gate gateway for the retrieval, analysis and secure forwarding of machine data. This industrial gateway was developed by Schubert subsidiary Schubert System Elektronik together with genua, the German IT security spe- cialist. The
GS.Gate can be connected to machines independently of manufac- turer and meets the highest IT security requirements.
SnackFix technology for cereal bar production
Bühler showcased a new process solu- tion for small batch cereal bar production. Named the ‘SnackFix’, the new tech- nology comprises a continuous mixer, a small cooling tunnel, and a cutting system. With a flexible and modular de-
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