BISCUIT PRODUCTION Get smart and stay


Suzanne Callander reports on the trends and technology advances that are driving biscuit production today.


of biscuit production. “Today’s systems can be almost completely recipe controlled – dial in a pre-set recipe and machines along a line can adjust themselves to default settings, with the operator needing only to fine tune those settings,” says Keith


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Manager at Baker Perkins. A more recent disruption comes from the application of Industry 4.0 technologies and this is something all biscuit manufacturers should be exploring. “Industry 4.0 harnesses data from all the machines, devices and sensors in a production line, or right across a plant and enables them to communicate with each other via the Internet to help make informed and timely decisions,” explains Keith. His advice is that biscuit producers look more closely at Industry 4.0 technologies as it can have a big impact on productivity. Explaining further, he says: “Preventive maintenance based on condition monitoring is enhanced, while intelligent analysis of process performance and machine condition variables in an Industry 4.0 system enables predictive maintenance – predicting when key components will need replacing based on a combination of factors – avoiding not


“A more recent disruption comes from the application of Industry 4.0 technologies and this is something all biscuit manufacturers should be exploring”


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hen it comes to biscuit production lines, automation has featured largely within many organisations for some time and the development of modern control systems has further extended the boundaries


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