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Automating packaging and coding not only streamlines the process but also checks all of the boxes – efficiency and transparency, material traceability and sustainability.
Automating packaging and coding not only streamlines the process but also checks all of the boxes – efficiency and transparency, material traceability and sustainability.
In the world of industrial baking, maintaining line efficiency and ensuring the longevity of bakeware and their coatings are paramount to delivering high-quality products consistently. American Pan’s SMART Pan Tracking® System helps protect the product and the pan, with actionable information.
At iba, SENSURE is showcasing its vision inspection solutions (STARGATE series), which use high-speed, non-contact imaging cameras and/or profilometer lasers to quantify a wide range of product quality parameters (shape, size, color, height, topping coverage, volume, etc.) at high speed. All solutions provide continuous and quantitative data that can be used to identify process issues and create a library of information for analysis.
Syntegon won the German Packaging Prize in the ‘packaging machines’ category, from the German Packaging Institute (Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut e.V.). Its IDH handling system incorporates innovative picker technology, which enables manufacturers to considerably reduce the space required from the infeed belt to the packaging machine.
Wooden Bakery of Lebanon has maintained the product quality its customers are accustomed to, throughout several, sometimes overlapping challenges over the years. To cope with the latest struggles due to material availability, the use of flour and dough rheology technologies has helped the business manage flour quality.
The Rademaker Technology Center (RTC) features several pilot lines, full-scale, certified production lines that meet the latest standards, which are available for testing. The company believes knowledge is an investment worth making, and invest it did: over the past two years, the RTC has been developed to more than twice its starting size, to its current 2,400sqm.
As might have been expected, machine and plant controller automation and digitalization were one of the major topics at the iba trade fair.