To keep pace with their growing business, one major UK bakery was looking to improve their end of line packing facility in South Yorkshire. The challenge was to automate the picking & packing process and increase production speed to 750 pies/min. Another objective was to reduce product damage and offer a high level of flexibility to handle a variety of future products and packing configurations.

The Industrial Automation Solution:

We took on this challenge and used our expertise to design a ATS packing system that reduces labour costs by 90% and is capable of running at a 20% higher speed than specified (900 pies/min) to cater for future production increases.

A reduction in product damage and waste was achieved by the ATS walking beam transfer, which gently handles the pies in one smooth continuous motion on a flighted conveyor.

The system