When a food or baking industry company goes to scale a recipe or batch up or down, the company typically ends up making far more product than they need because their ingredient mixing and calculations are done manually.
This over-scaling costs a food processing company or baking industry producer ingredient costs and operating expenses including machinery and labor. Through the use of bulk scaling systems, these unnecessary costs can be avoided.
Bulk Scaling Systems Get the Recipe Right the First Time
Bulk scaling systems are automated, and therefore create the exact same ingredient mix time and again. For this reason, bulk scaling systems can accurately scale a recipe up or down for the exact amount a facility needs to produce.
The cost savings involved in implementing bulk scaling systems in food processing facilities are remarkable: bulk scaling systems can reduce ingredient loss by 5.5% and increase production yield by another 5% given the lack of manual errors.
PRIMS, or Production Recipe Ingredient Management Software, is an automated food production system that utilizes the ideas behind bulk scaling systems to make production facilities more efficient. Through reductions in ingredient loss, increases in production yields, and reductions in batch cycle times of up to 20%, PRIMS incorporates the goals behind bulk scaling systems, but does not stop there.
A full solution to food processing automation, PRIMS also offers inventory control, preventative maintenance monitoring, recipe controls, production monitoring, production simulations, and integration capabilities to existing accounting and other business processes.
For more information on bulk scaling systems or PRIMS, visit www.matrixcontrols.net. To speak with expert-level quality control professionals regarding your plant or facility’s current issues or needs, call Matrix Controls at 800-722-6839 today. You can also email sales@matrixcontrols.net.