German frozen cakes and flans manufacturer Pfalzgraf Konditorei is employing a new software from CSB-System to boost cake production.
The CSB-System's software is used as part of production scheduling with raw material requirements calculated from the recipe and the number of products to be manufactured, and then sent directly to suppliers, the company claims.
This information is available on the goods received, besides other critical details for individual products such as shelf life or temperature storage requirements.
A mobile data recording unit scans goods carrying an EAN 128 bar code, a move that eliminates the need for the time-consuming manual inputs.
The raw materials without an EAN 128 bar code will be given a self-printed bar code label by warehouse staff, which includes all the relevant information for the subsequent stages.
For each production, goods are booked out as required and weighed and prepared in preparation rooms upstream of the four production lines.
Designed for automated data capture, CSB-Racks is an industrial workstation that is linked directly to the scales and ensure that all required work steps are carried out in line with specifications.
Pfalzgraf Konditorei IT manager Andreas Ziegler said: "We also always have the option of approaching the CSB developers with our own ideas and suggestions in order to programme specific solutions that are tailored to our company,"
"Along the way we have also learned a great deal about our production processes and can optimise these further while implementing the software."
