Marcelo Tise, engineer, inventor, and owner of Advanced Automation, Riverdale, N.J., had experience working with bakery equipment and knew what needed improving at Giannella. The result is a minor-ingredient batching system geared toward the baking industry and named the Batch Process Analysis (BPA) system, all designed, fabricated and installed by Advanced Automation in Riverdale. With BPA’s modular design, Marcelo and his team can design and build systems with as many ingredient hoppers as needed, and write all the software needed as well.
The BPA also allows bakeries to tweak recipes for maximum cost savings. For instance, if a recipe calls for five pounds of sugar, a bakery could leave out one ounce of sugar from each batch. The end product will be consistent from batch to batch, and the BPA allows a bakery’s recipes to remain secret under password protection
The BPA also allows bakeries to tweak recipes for maximum cost savings. For instance, if a recipe calls for five pounds of sugar, a bakery could leave out one ounce of sugar from each batch. The end product will be consistent from batch to batch, and the BPA allows a bakery’s recipes to remain secret under password protection.
The BPA has a very small footprint, taking no more room than the work benches used today. The system also allows bakeries to track all minor ingredients without having to put pen to paper. Giannella uses eight IQ plus® 355 weight indicators and one 820i® weight indicator. The IQ plus 355 indicators have analog outputs that the PC reads. It is used to monitor the weight in any one of eight feed hoppers that are filled with micro ingredients for commercial baking. The PC stores the many family secret formulas. The operator can select the formula he or she wants. The 820i indexes a moving bench scale under the feed hoppers. As the hoppers get low on product, a signal is sent to the batch master who manually re-loads. Software automatically tracks and records daily production runs, allowing bakeries to adhere to strict standards demanded by quality regulation associations.
Through the BPA’s touchscreen system, workers can select the recipe and the total batch count and hit “run.” The BPA will measure the ingredients into a tray, with accuracy down to the ounce, eliminating waste of expensive minor ingredients.
