The hygienic Raptor Inline Checkweigher is a cutting-edge solution designed specifically for automated ingredient processing lines in the food manufacturing industry. This innovative weighing system seamlessly integrates with upstream portion control equipment, providing bakery, meat, seafood, and prepared food manufacturers with an efficient and accurate tool.
One of the key advantages of the Raptor Inline Checkweigher is its simplicity of integration into existing production lines. It effortlessly works alongside various equipment, such as sausage stuffers, meat and plant-based burger forming and portioning lines, cheese cutters, as well as bread, pizza, and cake dough dividers. With its impressive capacity to handle rates exceeding 9,000 units per hour, manufacturers can rely on the Raptor Inline Checkweigher to ensure uniform portion weights.
Originally engineered for high-speed bakeries, this new addition to the Fortress Raptor Checkweighing series empowers European food processors to optimize their weight checking processes. By transitioning from manual methods to automated inline checkweighing, manufacturers can maintain weight compliance and save considerable costs by eliminating daily product giveaway.
The Raptor Inline Checkweigher offers remarkable versatility in weighing a wide range of items, from small garlic dough balls to hefty 6kg cheese blocks. It automatically rejects product units that fall below or exceed the target weight by as little as 0.5 grams. Furthermore, the machine’s advanced fibre optic controlled software enables real-time communication with upstream portion control equipment, allowing adjustments to be made to the position of cutting blades.
In today’s focus on manufacturing waste reduction, it is more crucial than ever to identify and address under or over weight products before the resource-intensive process of baking or packaging takes place. Fortress Europe’s applications engineer, Daniel Shail, emphasizes that leaving weight checks until the end of the process can result in costly product recalls, wasted production hours, and unnecessary workforce expenses.
A significant number of food processors still rely on labor-intensive manual checks within batches, resulting in variations in product quality. By adopting automated inline checkweighing, individual pieces that deviate from the target weight can be detected and removed for reworking. Additionally, corrective feedback can be provided to the upstream portioning equipment to enhance efficiency.
The Raptor Inline Checkweigher boasts an ultra-hygienic washdown design with a clean-in-place (CIP) mode, ensuring easy and thorough sanitation to prevent cross contact contamination. Fortress Europe has ingeniously incorporated the reject unit beneath the conveyor within the machine’s body, keeping the checkweigher compact. Products that fail to meet the target weight specifications are seamlessly dropped into an equally hygienic and lockable BRC-approved reject bin. This allows line operatives to swiftly intervene, open, remove, and re-portion the products back upstream.
To address potential issues related to airflow interference and airborne contaminants, the Raptor Inline Checkweigher features an interlocked conveyor cover with specially engineered cutouts. This design ensures the accuracy of weighing while safeguarding the integrity of raw ingredients.
Moreover, the Raptor’s management control system gathers valuable data that can be employed to track uptime and address line inefficiencies, further optimizing the production process.
In conclusion, the hygienic Raptor Inline Checkweigher represents a game-changing solution for automated ingredient processing lines in the food manufacturing industry. With its seamless integration, high-speed weighing capabilities, automated rejection of under or over weight products, and exceptional hygiene standards, this advanced system empowers manufacturers to uphold weight compliance, reduce waste, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
