How to optimize a multi-line packaging for bakery products?

Situation

Our client, a leading industrial bakery manufacturer in North America, wanted to expand its Ontario facility by adding two new packaging lines: one for fresh bagels and another for frozen bagels.

Storcan Solutions

Our teams designed and integrated a custom solution extending from the tunnel oven discharge to the packaging stations, including:

• Multiple sections of food-grade MatTop conveyors
• Reject system to detect and remove bagel clusters
• 4-lane alignment conveyor feeding a four-lane slicer
• Metal detector for product inspection
• Two-way product routing system directing bagels to:
  A packaging line for fresh bagels; or
  A freezing line through a freezing spiral, with an additional option for bulk packaging of fresh bagels

Results

The solution enabled the customer to optimize its multi-line packaging operation for both fresh and frozen bagels, while maintaining product quality through a flexible and automated system.