Automation elevates your production capacity, saves cost and improves assurance. Read more about how RONDO can help you in scaling up your business here.
Production automation is an integral next step in business scaling. It creates more product, faster, with more consistency, all with less work needed overall. Due to these reasons, it will lower your expenses and increase output.
There are two types of production automation, full and partial. Full automation means from start to finish there is limited human interaction needed, basically, to start and stop the machine. An entire line can be run by a few trained employees and run for long periods of time.
Take a look at our ASTec Donut Line, it is fully automated, producing up to 30,000 donuts per hour with no workers having to move product from line-to-line. Additionally, it can connect with a downstream proofer and fryer, which means fast production and reduced labor.
“The advantage on the industrial level is mass production,” said John Latshaw, parts and services manager with RONDO in an interview with Baking Business. “Industrial production is a continuous dough band process with full automation of lamination, sheeting, cutting and forming.”
Semi-automated means the process is partially automatic, it requires some level of workers assisting or product to be moved from one machine to another. For example, most products have multiple steps, such as dough band forming, lamination, sheeting, folding and cutting.
“The artisan baker can use machinery to automate the lamination process, the sheeting process, and cut and form by hand,” Mr. Latshaw went on to say.
For example, our Polyline does the hard part of cutting, creating uniform shapes, and filling, depending on the product, which means all that is needed is feeding the line. Even though this is only semi-automated, the overall improvement in efficiency is substantial.
“With more automation, manual labor is cut drastically,” said Johnson Yu, demonstrator for RONDO. “It is a powerful tool for any business and will increase efficiency.”
All-in-all, automation will help your business. The biggest factor in deciding which machine matches you best is scale, basically how big is your business and how much do you need to produce. If you are an industrial size business, full automation is ideal, if you are a smaller scale business like a bakery, then semi-automated is for you.
Not sure? Visit us at our booth in October (#211) or contact us by e-mail, and we will happily answer any questions you may have!
