Bakery

Effective product protection is essential in the bakery industry, ensuring quality and customer safety - the hallmarks of today's bakers.

There as been considerable innovation in the bakery sector in recent times, with the traditional staple of sliced bread making way for an array of exciting breads and baked products that appeal to consumers' increasingly sophisticated tastes. This development has created the need for total product inspection solutions.

Lock Inspection Systems has responded to this challenge with a range of customised metal detectors, checkweighers and doughweighers that guarantee the very highest level of product quality and brand integrity.

For further information e-mail: sales@lockinspection.co.uk (UK), sales@lockinspection.com (North/South America), systemes@lock-qualimatic.fr (France), sales@lockbv.nl (Netherlands) or asiapacific@lockinspection.co.uk (Asia Pacific Regional Office)

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Ingredient and Raw Material Screening

Bakery manufacturers, like other sectors are increasingly turning their attention to cost control and improvements in production efficiency. Early detection of contamination can yield significant economic benefits since lower value ingredients are rejected before any manufacturing cost has been incurred. Screening of ingredients and raw materials provides the additional benefit of protecting expensive machinery from the risk of damage.

The quality of finished products can only be guaranteed if 100% of ingredients - including raw and processed materials - are screened to remove metal contaminants.

Lock's MET 30+ UNIVERSAL Vertical Fall metal detectors are ideal for inspecting high throughput gravity fed powders or granules, delivering class leading sensitivity to magnectic and non-magnetic metals, including high-resistivity stainless steel.

Lock in Manufacturing Efficiency - MET 30+ UNIVERSAL V/Fall System for ingredients screening

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In Process and End of Line Inspection

Metal fragments can enter the production cycle at several stages during manufacture, coming from many sources including cutting blades, sieves, bearings, milling and grinding devices, or simply debris left following routine maintenance.

HACCP analysis will identify where protection is
needed.

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Metallised Film Packaging

Metallised film is increasingly used as the packaging material of choice as it enhances product branding and point of sale advertising. Unfortunately, products that are packaged in metallised film have traditionally presented a significant challenge when it comes to metal detection.

Lock's unique ADC software has revolutionized metal detection of products in metallised film. Standard on all MET 30+ UNIVERSAL metal detectors, ADC senses the use of metallised film packaging and creates a new product setup to filter out its effect, whilst still delivering class leading sensitivity to magnetic and non-magnetic metals including high-resistivity stainless steel (304 and 316) contaminants.

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Finished Pack Integrity

Closed pack inspection by a checkweigher is required to verify compliance with declared label weight and /or component count, the ultimate check a MET 30+ UNIVERSAL detector can be integrated with a WeighChek checkweigher

WeighCheks conform to all packaging hall requirements and the open, robust design provides exceptional accuracy combined with ease of use across all industry lines.

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Dough Weighing

Effective weighing of dough pieces has traditionally been regarded as one of the most difficult checkweighing applications.

One of the first machinery suppliers to address this challenge, Lock has been delivering its bespoke WeighChek dough checkweighers to the bakery industry for decades.

Bakeries are able to guarantee weight compliance and optimise material costs by monitoring the weight of each dough ball and removing and recycling pieces, which fall outside the preset tolerances.

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Lock in Customer Satisfaction......

All Lock's conveyor belt metal detectors and checkweighers are offered with automated reject management devices ranging from sstandard belt stop/alarm to comprehensive fail-safe systems.

Lock's DataChek data management tool is a software package and network protocol that enables control and monitoring of up to 40 Lock metal detectors and checkweighers. DataChek offers real-time performance measurement, record keeping and data analysis - it is a a multifunctional tool for production and quality assurance staff to aid problem solving, complaint resolution and compliance with HACCP, BRC/IFS and weights and measures leglisation.

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MET 30+ Universal DataChek Reject Options