Last summer, I followed the technical team to a chain bakery in East China for a field investigation. Before I entered the door, I heard the chef's complaint: "Three out of ten fried dough twist buns are not sealed, and the rework time is longer than baking bread!" Looking at the crooked finished products on the operating table, I finally understood why the customer was so anxious to find us to save the situation - their old equipment couldn't even wrap the most basic braided bread properly.
The battlefield at four in the morning, the dilemma of manual packaging
This chain brand that focuses on creative baking has the biggest headache of the daily early morning production peak. The six people in the manual packaging team were working around the assembly line. If they were not careful, they would press the dirty buns into "coal cakes" or let the mochi stick to the sealing strip. The chef smiled bitterly and calculated for us: "Scrapped products alone account for 5% of the daily output, and this does not include night shift subsidies and the risk of work-related injuries."
We decided on the spot to move in the bakery automatic packaging machine. On the day of debugging, the chefs in the back kitchen watched with their arms crossed until they saw the machine steadily catch the freshly baked soft European bread - the surface of the bread was still steaming, with sporadic walnut pieces, but the equipment seemed to have eyes and accurately avoided the raised parts to complete the film wrapping. A helper whispered: "This iron guy is better at choosing angles than our team leader!"
Special-shaped bread? Our equipment is specially designed to cure dissatisfaction
What really made the customer decide was the ability of the bakery automatic packaging machine to handle special products. Their signature starry sky flow heart buns are sprinkled with crispy chocolate meteorite particles on the surface. In the past, manual packaging always rubbed off the decoration. Our equipment uses a flexible adsorption system, which is like using an air cushion to move the bread during packaging, and the yield rate directly soared from 82% to 98%.
The most amazing thing was the time when we processed butterfly cakes. This kind of delicate pastry with 16 layers of pastry will break into pieces if it is slightly stressed. After the equipment is switched to light touch mode, the robotic arm spreads the film like covering a baby with a quilt, and the corners can also fold beautiful wavy patterns. Later, the customer said at the report meeting: "Since we have used your machine, we no longer have to consider whether it is easy to package when developing new products, just let our imagination run wild!"
Efficiency Revolution: From Fire Brigade to Commander
When we visited last week, it was their mid-autumn production. In previous years, at least five temporary workers would be added at this time, but now there are only two inspectors on the three automated lines. The packaging area that was originally in chaos is now being methodically packaged by the bakery automatic packaging machine.
The production supervisor showed us a set of comparative data:
- The loss rate of pastry products decreased by 70%
- The labor cost of night shift decreased by 60%
- The launch cycle of new products shortened by 1/3
"Now the young people in the R&D department can finally let go," he pointed to the mugwort green balls being packaged and smiled, "This kind of soft seasonal snack was not dared to be sold in large quantities in previous years. Now the machine can adaptively adjust the lifting force, and the daily production capacity has doubled directly."
Your pain point, our starting line
What impressed me most about this customer case was not the number of packaging efficiency improvement, but the change in the working status of the back kitchen. During the last surprise inspection, the operation room at four o'clock in the morning was no longer smoky, but the aroma of freshly ground coffee was floating in the air - the chef on duty finally had time to think about new products.
From the Yangtze River Delta to the Pearl River Delta, our factory's bakery automatic packaging machine is rewriting the stories of countless bakeries. Some customers initially came just to solve the pain points of baking production, but in the end they received unexpected surprises: for example, a brand used our equipment to standardize special-shaped bread and directly sold regional specialty snacks to supermarkets across the country; another customer obtained the qualification to supply airline meals because of the improved packaging qualification rate.
Looking at the new generation of equipment being tested in the workshop, I suddenly remembered the chef's sigh: "A good machine should not be a tool on the assembly line, but a reliable partner." If you are also worried about the packaging battlefield at four in the morning, why not come and talk. Perhaps the next bakery automatic packaging machine that will rewrite your production story is waiting on the assembly line of our factory!
