That’s where the Essentus efficiency, which offers the essential weighing functions, comes in. For customers who require more, the Essentus performance offers a checkweigher with advanced capabilities.” Metzger reveals that verifiable Essentus variants will be available in the near future. “We will then increase the number of potential applications even further and quite significantly,” he says. The Essentus performance allows the regulation of upstream filling systems and even in the standard version provides a range of statistics that is more than sufficient for most applications, meeting all requirements for production monitoring and data analysis. The detailed analyses are displayed on the LCD colour graphic display, which can be either fixed or separate from the scale, and allows the storage of up to 100 different products.
“Checkweighers are used to ensure 100-percent sample reliability on the packaging line”
are removed from the product flow without stopping the production process. They also help to improve production efficiency using the checkweighing data that they collect. Minebea Intec offers a variety of checkweighers for
these tasks. They can be configured in accordance with individual requirements and, if customers have very specific requirements, customised versions can even be produced. Metzger highlights the Flexus and Essentus product families from Minebea Intec as two series of products that are particularly good in this area: “With Flexus, we are offering users high-resolution load cell technology that enables maximum throughput with absolute precision even at high process speeds of up to 2.6 m/s.” The name itself reveals another key strength of these checkweighers from Minebea Intec: their flexibility. This quality is particularly useful when needing to adapt line configurations quickly and easily for transitions between products, like when producing new and upcoming products, such as vegan snacks. “Thanks to its intelligent design, the Flexus enables lines
to be converted with minimal effort,” Metzger explains. “The width of the conveyor belt is variable and the height of the system can also be adapted to new conditions very quickly thanks to its adjustable feet. The upper frame structure is even designed to allow additional modules or inspection solutions to be mounted, for instance. What’s more, the checkweigher is designed in accordance with the stringent hygienic design directives of the EHEDG.”
Essentus – cost-effective checkweigher solutions
The latest addition to the Minebea Intec inspection portfolio is Essentus. This new checkweigher comes with various options so it can be tailored to individual application profiles, and is therefore ideal for both simple and demanding applications in the production of bakery goods. “Essentus is an innovative solution and meets the needs of our customers who have clearly defined requirements for these systems,” Metzger explains. “We are often asked for a simple, inexpensive entry-level model that enables reliable, precise check weighing and classification on the packaging line.
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Both systems are available in versions for different weight classes: for up to 6 kg and for up to 60 kg. In addition to their high level of weighing precision and robust design, they are easy and intuitive to use and – thanks to the latest- generation strain-gauge technology, among other things – offer maximum reliability.
A highly diversified partner for the entire product life cycle
Minebea Intec is the perfect partner for producers of bakery goods and system integrators wanting to implement powerful systems thanks to its extensive range of hardware and software products for the baked goods industry and decades of experience in this field. The company offers much more than just standard solutions, as Metzger demonstrates: “In the production of bakery goods, like in the food industry as a whole, many products involve very specific requirements throughout large parts of the production process, such as for product handling. In situations where our standard systems no longer cover these requirements, our Global Solutions Department will advise users, and we will then come up with customer-specific solutions that meet all of that user’s specific requirements. It goes without saying that we always observe the stringent hygienic design requirements in all our systems for the bakery goods industry, which ensures simple cleaning processes, among other things.” Minebea Intec also supports customers during the commissioning process, helping to make sure that production starts on schedule. Minebea Intec promises to make daily life safer. This applies not only to the lives of consumers, but also those of producers.
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