Pasta

Pasta, rice & co. – improve product safety, increase throughput

For dry goods manufacturers it is essential to avoid defects in order to offer their customers the best quality. Thanks to automation with Bizerba technologies, they can produce more efficiently and ensure that every package is flawless. Solutions such as checkweighers and inspection systems help detect defects and prevent costly recalls. Cobots also provide support in the event of staff shortages.
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Risks in dry goods manufacturing

Manufacturers of dry goods such as pasta, rice, lentils, and quinoa face the constant risk of selling defective products. These defects range from faulty pasta packaging to foreign objects in rice. Products with a very low degree of processing, such as rice, legumes or grains, are particularly susceptible. The consequences of such product defects are serious: loss of customers, partners and consumers, lost sales, contractual penalties and claims for damages.

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Preventing product defects

Product defects such as foreign object contamination can be particularly costly. Traditional spot checks are often insufficient. Modern solutions such as checkweighers, inspection systems, and ejection systems make it possible to automatically inspect every package for defects, ensuring safe and efficient production.

Man & Machine: Cobots can also provide a flexible solution to staffing shortages in end-of-line processes.

Applications step by step

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Weighing
High-precision checkweighers detect even small weight variations at maximum line speeds. Underfilling is a common cause of complaints and can be easily eliminated. In productions where overfilling is used as a preventive measure, the giveaway can add up significantly over time. This can also be prevented with modern continuous weighers. Rejection systems ensure that any incorrect weights detected are automatically removed from the production line.
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Inspection
Automated metal detection and visual inspection - manual spot checks can't keep up. At high line speeds, pack after pack is inspected and rejected if necessary. Depending on the production environment and product, there are solutions for the most likely contaminants. Metal detectors can detect small contaminants, including non-magnetic metals such as aluminum. Visual inspection can also be used to identify defects such as leaking seals or incorrect labels.
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Repackaging
With labor shortages and no end in sight, the food industry needs to find new ways. One of them is robotics. It gives you more flexibility in end-of-line processes. Personnel bottlenecks can be compensated by so-called cobots - the artificial word stands for "collaborative robots". These are compact, mobile robots that work side by side with human colleagues and can fill in when employees are absent. In the end-of-line area, for example, cobots can realign packages on the conveyor belt before they pass through an inspection system. Or they can stack products into cartons.
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Connecting
With BRAIN2 industrial software and the appropriate software modules, you can centralize your data, streamline processes and create greater transparency. From incoming goods to outgoing goods, from recording, calculating and evaluating production key figures to master data maintenance: BRAIN2 and the various BRAIN2 modules bring more efficiency to the production of dry goods.
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