German engineering company, Vemag Maschinenbau, has released its new FT722 filling table as a flexible and simple automation solution for bakeries. The unit can be used to fill mixtures precisely into baking tins or deposit them onto trays.
Bakeries are looking for robust and flexible machines to produce high quality baked goods despite high cost pressures and staff shortages. With these aspects in mind, Vemag engineers developed the FT722 filling table, a new solution to portion, deposit or load products precisely and continuously onto trays or into baking tins.
The work surface of the FT722 is mounted on a mobile stainless steel frame. This allows the attachment to be moved easily during production or to be transferred to the cleaning area. The work surface of the filling table serves as a support surface for a carrier (slide) that moves in two axes.
This carrier is moved below the work surface via servo-driven kinematics. Power is transmitted by permanent magnets in the carrier and in the counterpart beneath the work surface, and by controlling the servo motors, the installed kinematics are moved in different angular lines.
Using a touch panel, the baker can either enter the coordinates manually or use the pre-installed programs and storage patterns. It is also possible for the control system to calculate the depositing pattern itself by entering the tray dimensions and the desired number of portions per tray.
Vemag Maschinenbau managing director, Christoph Thelen, said: “With the new filling table FT722, we are offering companies a solution that enables them to master a number of current challenges, such as staff shortages and rising costs”.
The modular system allows the machine to be flexibly adapted to the desired quality and end product of the baked good at any given time. This is accomplished through the use of interchangeable attachments, such as the recently introduced filling table.
The combination of a Vemag dough portioner with easily interchangeable attachments allows for the automated production of a wide variety of bakery products with high weight accuracy.
