Increasing requirements for production technology


With the demand for food growing exponentially worldwide, a much higher level of automation is required in the industry – and this includes the production of bakery goods. High- precision, reliable technology is needed to inspect the baked goods in virtually every single one of the work steps described above in order to guarantee the large quantities required at a consistently high level of quality. Silo weighing solutions and floor scales record the exact material quantities during the various production phases and truck scales perform the same task at goods receipt and goods issue. Checkweighers record the product weight for quality assurance purposes. Metal and X-ray inspection systems ensure during various process stages that the end products do not contain anything other than the desired ingredients. Every component that comes into direct contact with the food must fulfil strict hygienic design requirements to minimise any safety risks for the consumer. The bakery goods industry is an important customer segment for Minebea Intec. “With our unique portfolio of products and services, we offer a wide range of solutions worldwide for this special market, covering everything from receipt of the raw materials to the finished end product,” explains Willy-Sebastian Metzger,


Director Marketing, Strategy and Business Development at Minebea Intec.


Reliable X-ray inspections with Dymond and Dylight


Metzger describes two examples of the high-performance X-ray inspection systems currently available from his company: the Dymond and Dylight systems. “The X-ray inspection systems in our Dymond series are extremely versatile and are ideal for inspecting packaged bakery goods at the end of the production process, for instance. The systems reliably detect foreign objects in the product and enables hollow spaces to be detected in products and check whether the product contents fill the entire packaging.” Whether the food products are dry or liquid, in cartons, bags or portion packs makes no difference to these systems. To meet the individual requirements of each production line, Minebea Intec offers three different Dymond models with belt widths of 200 mm to 800 mm. Multi-track applications with up to eight tracks are also possible with Dymond. With Dymond Bulk, Minebea Intec has developed an X-ray inspection system for bulk materials that enables raw materials such as vegetables, nuts, dried fruit and grains to be reliably checked for foreign objects of any kind at goods receipt. “The X-ray inspection also helps to protect downstream machines, like grinders, by monitoring goods that enter the production process straight from the field, as it were,” Metzger explains.


X-ray inspection systems from the Dymond series ensure the reliable detection of foreign objects in all types of packaging


As a genuine plug and play solution, the X-ray inspection system Dylight offers all the functions required to inspect packaged food in a compact unit and is often used as an entry-level model for X-ray inspections. “Our Dylight system carries out similar tasks to the Dymond models and offers an intuitive solution thanks to its extremely compact design and intuitive, time-saving operation,” says Metzger. Dylight models take up just one metre of space in production lines, which makes it easy to incorporate them into existing lines. Packaged bakery goods are checkweighed after the actual production process is complete for quality management purposes, to make sure that the product weight is correct and that the product is complete. Many bakery goods producers check their products using random samples, which are checkweighed using static scales. One solution that Minebea Intec offers for this task is Combics – a series of verifiable industrial bench scales that can be tailored to the required maximum capacities and resolutions. The Combics series also offers a special single-workstation solution for the pre- packaging checking of bakery goods, which is particularly useful in smaller-scale production processes. Automatic statistics and printouts as well as graphical evaluations on the scale display help users with their day-to-day tasks. This solution can also be adapted if production is being expanded or integrated into a network solution, such as SPC@ Enterprise. Checkweighers are used to ensure 100-percent sample reliability on the packaging line. Their integrated separation systems make sure that any defective products


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