Pan & Lid Handling
Enhance your bakery’s efficiency and safety with AMF’s state-of-the-art Pan & Lid Handling solutions. Custom-configured to fit your bakery’s layout, our automated systems ensure seamless operations, providing a continuous cycle of pans, lids, and peel boards throughout your bakery. Trust AMF to elevate your production process, delivering unmatched reliability and safety standards throughout your bakery.
Pan & Lid Stacking Systems
AMF Workhorse pan and lid stacking systems ensure precise and gentle handling that extends the life of your pans and lids and reduces operating costs. With a deep understanding of the commercial bakery landscape, we offer automated pan & lid handling solutions that allow bakeries to overcome today’s challenges and stay ahead in the future.
Robotic Stacker & Unstacker
AMF Workhorse’s Robotic Stacker & Unstacker is designed to provide gentle and accurate stacking and unstacking for all bakery pan and lid needs, offering the highest level of automation and versatility.
Workhorse Gantry Stacker & Unstacker
An alternative robotic solution that moves along a predefined linear axis, offering a reliable solution suited for tasks that don’t require a wide range of motion.
Den Boer Gantry Stacker & Unstacker
Heavy-duty stacking and unstacking of pans, trays, tin, and boards with excellent accuracy and productivity. It fits existing lines and can be tailored and engineered to your bakery floor plan. This mechanical pan stacker and unstacker is productive, reliable, and fully integrated with your pan handling system or newly designed by AMF Den Boer.
Magnetic Stacker & Unstacker
For bakeries that don’t require the high-speed versatility of a robotic system, this compact design makes an ideal solution for bakeries with limited space, maximizing automation efficiency without compromising on performance.
APEX Robotic Stacker & Unstacker
Precise, robotic pan handling to ensure the most gentle stacking and unstacking motions to extend the life of your pans.
Pan & Lid Storage & Retrieval
Whether your bakery is ready to embrace full automation or prefers a more hands-on approach, AMF Workhorse has storage and retrieval solutions that fit your needs and can easily integrate with any range of pan handling systems.
Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) for Pans & Lids
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) offer precision transportation of heavy loads, with omni-directional wireless technology, optimizing transport routes and boosting safety and efficiency.
Automated Storage & Retrieval System (ASRS) for Pans & Lids
For bakeries requiring high-density storage, our Automated Storage & Retrieval System (ASRS) provides efficient and reliable storage, minimizing wear and reducing downtime.
Fixed Storage Location
Workhorse’s Fixed Storage Solutions offer a less automated solution for optimizing space and streamlining access to materials, ensuring quick retrieval and uninterrupted production.
Pan Trucks
AMF Workhorse Pan Trucks are a versatile, manual solution for seamlessly transferring pans between stacking and unstacking systems.
Step Pan Storage
The step system, built on a small footprint, streamlines your baking process by resting dough, cooling pans and products, or serving as a buffer zone in your bakery. It will buffer all kinds of pans, trays, and peel boards for the period you need and save a lot of floor space in any bakery.
Peel Board Stacking Systems
AMF Workhorse’s Peel Board Stacking System extends the same unique value of its pan and lid stacking systems for products beyond soft bread and buns that may require peel boards.
Robotic Peel Board Stacker & Unstacker
Designed to deliver a gentle, accurate, high-speed peel board stacking system. Able to incorporate an intuitive articulated robot or gantry-style robot for speed and accuracy.
Pan Inverters & Cleaners
The gentle pan-handling motion simplifies operation for efficient and easy use.
Convay Bread Pan Cleaner
Uses gravity and a high-efficiency air knife to streamline crumb removal, with automatic pan guides and brush height adjustments ensuring optimal setup and performance.
Convay Drum Bread Pan Inverter
With its flexible concept configuration, this gentle indexing motion ensures all upcoming pans get inverted and appropriately delivered.
BakeTech Pan Inverter
Designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing operations, BakeTech’s Pan Inverter solution automatically inverts pans with minimal intervention and optimizes your bakery process.
Pan Lidders
Automatic Pan Relidder
Toast bread and loaves bake best when using a lid. We take care of perfect lidding and de-lidding during the baking and pan handling process. Baking tray lids are taken off, put on, cooled, and stacked during this process without any human operation needed to accomplish these cumbersome tasks. Unique design for effective lid alignment onto bread pans, delivering the highest rate in the industry.
Pan & Lid Conveying Systems
With high-quality components and materials, AMF’s Pan & Lid Conveying Systems improve downstream processes while minimizing downtime for cleaning and maintenance.
A-Series Pan Conveyor
Designed by application, built with anodized aluminum side frames and rust-free materials for high operating efficiency and low maintenance.
S-Series Pan Conveyor
Designed by application and built with stainless steel side frames and rust-free materials for high operating efficiency and low maintenance.
D-Series Pan Conveyor
Stainless steel hygienic design conveying system for handling of pans, trays, peel boards, and more. Modular in hardware and software, designed for plug-and-play readiness in a complete AMF Den Boer system. Leverages a run, stop, and restart philosophy in accordance to the machine directive.
Pan Coolers
With high-quality components and materials, AMF’s Pan & Lid Conveying Systems improve downstream processes while minimizing downtime for cleaning and maintenance.
Continuous Pan Cooling Loop
Delivers 7-8 minutes of pan cooling time and utilizes interchangeable parts with BakeTech Continuous Proofer and Oven Systems to minimize spare parts.
Edge Bun Pan Cooler
AMF BakeTech’s compact, efficient pan-cooling solution eliminates debris from previously baked products, handling up to 38 pans per minute.
Continuous Pan Cooling Tunnel
AMF BakeTech’s Pan Cooling Tunnel offers high operating efficiency for pan cooling prior to pan stacking and recycling.
AMF’s Pan & Lid Handling Brands
Workhorse
Workhorse’s Pan and Lid Handling equipment is engineered to optimize the efficiency and precision of bakery operations, ensuring seamless integration into existing production lines. From automated stacking and inverting to delidding and relidding, each solution is designed to reduce manual labor, protect valuable equipment, and maintain consistent product quality. By automating these critical processes, Workhorse not only enhances productivity but also minimizes downtime and operational costs, making it an essential partner in modern bakery automation.
Den Boer
Streamlining pan handling is a big automation step for bakeries, saving human labor costs and increasing efficiency. Pan stacking, unstacking, cooling, lidding, and de-lidding, plus cleaning, can be aligned and automated to improve your baking process. Integrating hardware, software, and all steps in the process, we engineer solutions to your bakery and unique situation. Designed with high food safety standards, easy to clean, and very flexible for changeovers with built-in buffers and use of existing equipment. Consult us for a site audit to improve your pan handling system.
Convay
Convay provides solutions that offer precise alignment and seamless integration for both pans and lids handling equipment, optimizing the transfer from upstream to downstream operations. Custom-designed to meet the specific needs of your bakery, delivering optimal efficiency and performance.
BakeTech
BakeTech’s Pan & Lid Handling solutions are crafted to elevate the efficiency and reliability of your bakery’s production processes. With automated systems for inverting, stacking, and handling pans and lids, BakeTech ensures that each step is executed with precision, reducing the need for manual intervention and protecting your equipment from damage. These solutions seamlessly integrate into your existing setup, enhancing productivity while maintaining the high standards of product quality you expect.
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