Smart Applicator
AMF recognizes the challenges of modern bakeries. While the traditional focus on consistent product quality, efficient production processes, and bottom-line costs remains, new topics become more important each day: sustainability, food waste, and a changing workforce.
At AMF, we strongly believe we can support modern bakeries by merging the virtual and physical worlds to continuously drive optimization. By working towards a lights-out bakery with our expert baking experience, we are making equipment smarter, integrating processes, and improving your operation. AMF oven feature that helps bakers and operators improve efficiency and quality and reduce the energy usage of their ovens.
Sustainability
One of the core pillars of AMF’s Smart Process Solutions is sustainability. We’re determined to help pizza bakeries improve energy consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. By optimizing processes and leveraging intelligent technology, we’re making significant strides in minimizing the environmental impact of the pizza production industry.
Food waste
Food waste is an ever-present and concern in the food industry that continues to gain visibility. With our Smart Process Solutions, we’re committed to reducing waste and give-away while increasing yield. Through data-driven insights and precise control, we empower pizza bakeries to make the most of their ingredients, ensuring nothing goes to waste.
Quality
Maintaining consistent product quality while scaling production is paramount. Our solutions simplify operations while enhancing quality consistency. With intelligent equipment and integrated processes, we’re helping pizza bakeries produce top-notch pizzas with ease.
A Fully Data-Drive Process
In our pizza production line systems, intelligence operates on two levels. Vertically, smart machines like ovens and applicators offer closed-loop unit control. Horizontally, we connect the entire baking process, implementing closed-loop control for the entire bakery, from tracking and tracing to maintaining line quality and predictive maintenance.
Adding Intelligence to Pizza Production
New technology makes it possible to take our advanced equipment to the next level. We are in a unique position to add intelligence to our equipment and integrated production lines. With the use of advancements in artificial intelligence, connectivity, and data processing, we are making pizza production more autonomous.
An important part of our approach for enhancing pizza production is to keep the operator in the loop to make sure quality and efficiency are improved and not impacted.
Expert knowledge
AMF’s expert knowledge ensures that we address bakery challenges effectively. We leverage artificial intelligence to simplify operators’ tasks and improve overall operations.
Artificial Intelligence
Making the life of an operator easier and improving operations
Connectivity
Effectively aggregating information is crucial for the implementation of quick and correct decisions. Our solutions facilitate seamless connectivity, ensuring data-driven insights are readily available to support bakery operations.
How AMF Optimizes Your Pizza Topping Process
Smart Applicator
Up to 3% give-away reduction
The AMF Smart Applicator automates manual operator weighing checks to keep ingredient application within specifications:
– reducing labor
– improving accuracy
– reducing give-away
The Smart Applicator visually inspects each product and makes sure the right amount of topping is applied without operator handling. It works for:
– cheeses
– proteins (tuna, chicken, ham, salami)
– vegetables (mushrooms, olives)
IN-SHIFT QUALITY INSPECTION
Real-time quality inspection for pizza line operators
In-Shift Quality Inspection (ISQI) alerts operators directly on quality issues during pizza production, enabling you to:
– quickly identify quality problems
– solve problems when they happen
– prevent further problems
Each pizza is analyzed and anomalies are reported to the operator in detail:
– type of anomaly
– number of anomalies per type
ACROSS-SHIFT QUALITY INSPECTION
Analyze quality trends across shifts
and steer improvements
An additional feature of ISQI brings quality inspection to the line or plant manager, in order to:
– improve root-cause analysis
– increase quality across lines and shifts
– perform actual visual inspection of products
With continuous quality inspection and analysis, it becomes easy to spot structural quality problems over various products, recipes, shifts, and lines.
QUANTITATIVE INGREDIENT COMPENSATION
Hands-off quantitative ingredient
compensation
Quantitative Ingredient Compensation (QIC) automatically manages the obligation to produce against the standard declared weight of the product.
QIC exactly weighs the un-topped pizza bases early in the production processes. At the start of the topping line, inaccuracies in the weight of the base are compensated by the AMF Powershot Depositor.
ACTIVE QUALITY REJECTION
Fully unattended quality rejection
Active Quality Rejection (AQR) uses the anomaly detection capabilities of the ISQI and QIC to actively and accurately reject products of low quality or incorrect weight.
AQR can be configured to automatically reject products based on different quality criteria to keep waste to a minimum.
Innovative digital baking solutions
AMF is uniquely positioned to revolutionize professional bakeries with digital innovation. With our global footprint, we provide local support from implementation to production, ensuring your bakery’s enduring success.
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