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BAKERY SYSTEMS INC.

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The Dough Saver High Speed Bread line divider weight control

The Dough Saver has been the workhorse for the comercial baking industry for over 25 years. Automaticaly keeping dough piece weights right on target without operator intervention. Several hundred divider operators can now focus on the make-up area production running smoothly. Eliminating the tedious task of grabbing dough pieces and putting them on a platform scale. Where hopefully an SPC system is connected to the platform scale showing the operator a plot graph trend away from target. The operator is responsible for manualy adjusting the divider scaling mechanisim. Normally the adjustment is to aggresive or not enough causing a wider standard deviation until the operator has other things to attend too and hope the weights are ok on the next suvey.

The baking industry faces challenges from rising ingredient and resource costs, impacting one of our essential food staples. A key strategy to minimize ingredient overuse is ensuring consistent portion weights.

Dough dividers typically portion based on volumetric measures, either by the size of a pocket or through mass flow with an extruder nozzle and rotary knife. However, variations in yeast and other ingredients can affect the density of mixed dough due to gassing and absorption. Relying on random weight samples taken at lengthy intervals often fails to provide sufficient data for operators to make necessary scaling adjustments to counteract weight discrepancies.

When dough pieces are too heavy, it leads to increased manufacturing costs and quality issues, such as difficulties in slicing, packaging, and inconsistent baking results. Conversely, if dough pieces are too light, it can result in package weights falling below label claims, prompting potential actions from the Department of Agriculture's weights and measures division.



 

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