Flexible filling table

Bakeries are looking for robust, powerful, fast and flexible machines to produce high quality baked goods despite high cost pressures and staff shortages. Furthermore, the machines should be quick and easy to clean. With these aspects in mind, VEMAG engineers have developed the FT722 filling table, a new solution for bakeries to produce a wide variety of baked goods with exact weights in premium quality. The products are portioned, deposited or loaded precisely and continuously onto trays or into baking tins.

By combining a VEMAG dough portioner with the new filling table, various baked goods can be produced from dough and batter with a high degree of weight accuracy and automation. This allows bakeries to manage their staff and raw materials more efficiently and optimize their production processes. For example, biscuits and cookies can be automatically placed on trays. In addition, the Filling Table can be used to fill baking tins or cake rings with sponge cake or muffin batter extremely accurately, quickly, gently and precisely.
Custom shapes such as lettering, logos or trimmings, e.g. on cakes, are also possible. The baking trays are positioned and removed manually. The production of cookies, sponge cakes, fruit masses, muffins, brownies, gluten-free products, pound cakes or biscuits, is thus semi-automated. Creams, desserts and other masses can also be filled into jars, cups and other containers. This makes the FT722 ideal for use in catering companies or commercial kitchens.

The work surface of the FT722 is mounted on a mobile stainless steel frame. This allows the attachment to be moved quickly and easily during production or to be transferred to the cleaning area. The work surface of the filling table serves as a support surface for a carrier (slide) that moves in two axes. This carrier is moved below the work surface via servo-driven kinematics. Power is transmitted by permanent magnets in the carrier and in the counterpart beneath the work surface. Customer-specific trays, forms, glass jars, etc. can be placed loosely on the carrier using an adapter. The tray is manually placed and removed at a predefined position, which can be freely selected and is automatically approached for tray/form change. By controlling the servo motors, the installed kinematics are moved in different angular lines. This allows different X-Y positions to be approached.
Using a touch panel, the baker can either enter the coordinates manually or use the pre-installed programs and storage patterns. It is also possible for the intelligent control system to calculate the depositing pattern itself by entering the tray dimensions and the desired number of portions per tray. The control system makes it easy to operate the equipment, even for unskilled employees. The FT722 impresses with its flexible, modular, compact, hygienic and mobile design. Full wet cleaning is possible.

Benefits at a glance

- Consistent and high product quality
- Reduced employee workload - especially repetitive tasks
- Simple and fast semi-automation of the bakery
- Quick product change
- Modular design
- More flexibility
- High weight accuracy
- Gentle processing of masses and doughs
- Easy cleaning
- Simple operation
- No security fencing required

The VEMAG modular system allows the machine to be flexibly adapted to the desired quality and end product of the baked good at any given time. This is accomplished through the use of interchangeable attachments, such as the recently introduced filling table. The combination of a VEMAG dough portioner with easily interchangeable attachments allows for the automated production of a wide variety of bakery products with high weight accuracy. Moreover, production can be expanded if necessary and processes in the bakery can be optimized, e.g. to cover production spikes. Overall, the modular system allows raw materials and personnel to be used even more efficiently.
VEMAG offers its customers a tailor-made approach to customer service as well as customized solutions. The company manufactures the machines with an exceptionally high vertical range of production exclusively at its facility in Verden/Aller, Germany. VEMAG guarantees a short response time, e.g. when it comes to spare and wear parts. Customers can test the filling table under realistic production conditions at the VEMAG Bakery Innovation Center in Verden.

About Vemag:

VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH, Verden/Aller, Germany, is one of the leading mechanical engineering companies in the development, manufacture and sale of filling and portioning systems for the weight-accurate processing of doughs and batters. The company also covers automation solutions for a wide range of products and production areas in the bakery. The Lower Saxony-based company also has extensive experience in special machine construction with its own “Customized Solutions” department. VEMAG employs around 900 people, manufactures exclusively at the Verden/Aller site, is active worldwide and has an export share of around 85 percent.

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VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH
Bastian Borchfeld
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