Bakery Packaging Automated solution for packing Danish pastries
Although most of its products continue to be made by hand, J. Skinner, a US-based producer of Danish-style pastries, was not shy about the use of automation technology in its packaging process. In a bid to simplify its packaging process and gain the ability
to use just a single packaging line across its range, the company invited Schubert to help create a customised packaging solution that could be integrated into the existing production line without restricting any of the existing processes. Schubert’s all-in-one packaging solution combines several
process steps – the first step is removal of the products from baking sheets. The pastries are then fed into the picker line where they are picked from the belt and placed into clamshell packaging. The filled clamshells then pass directly from the picker line, via feed belts, into one of two case packers, where they are placed into shipping cartons. The baked pastries are fed directly from the oven to the packaging line. Each baking sheet holds four cakes. The baking sheets are taken into the system by a robot and placed on a stepping chain which transports the trays to the transfer area. There, the cakes are lifted out of the sheets from below by an automated machine and placed onto the
outfeed conveyor by another robot. A third robot transports the empty sheets to a washing unit. After removal from the baking sheets, the cakes are
decorated and fed to the picker line via a spiral cooler. There, a spreading unit separates the cakes for individual quality control before robots place the cakes individually into the clamshells. The clamshells are then sealed, labelled and inspected by existing machine equipment before being packed by two case packers into cartons of various formats ready for dispatch. Since installation of the automated packaging solution,
J. Skinner has been able to pack up to 160 of its pastries cakes every minute and load them into cartons ready for dispatching – in an all-in-one automated solution. An interesting feature of the Schubert solution is the
integrated bypass function which removes cakes from the baking sheets in the event of an unexpected machine stop. To avoid the problem that a traffic jam of sheets would cause the system has been designed to allow the sheets to continue to be conveyed through the system at a higher level in the machine in the event of a fault. This offers a greater degree of flexibility while ensuring maximum production reliability.
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