Low Cost Strategies For Bakery Manufacturers

With cost spiralling upwards for most of the components  Options for bakery manufacturers are listed below  for reducing cost of production and  increase the profitability of bakery unit


Raw material availability

To start or move to area where  raw materials like Flour , Sugar and Fat  are available at low rates or areas where these material are processed in abundance.



Labour Cost

Putting or running plants  away from metros  or suburbans areas can reduce the overheads cost as living costs in  these  areas  are very low . Governments  have setup industrial zones in such areas  to help local populations with jobs and help in  industrialization of that areas sops like tax and duty exemptions are also given to the investors.



Fuel  Availability

Check  out  for areas where one can source fuel  at lower rates  for fuel such as Lpg , Ldo , Rfo  or CNG .With proper source of  electricity .


Logistics Infrastructure

Area  to be well connected with rail and road network as to  get raw material easily and transship finished good in shorter time .


Market proximity

Not to ignore the market proximity near by as it would reduce the  logistic cost of transportation and distribution channels .


Competition

Areas where  there are fewer competitors or no competitors can enhance the sales and in turn increase the profitability

Bread Dough Divider

Bread dough divider is one of the critical equipment in bread automated manufacturing . Its main function is to  divide dough into number of equal  dough pieces.
Mostly  Bread Dough dividers are mechanical  devices  with manual adjustment but we can opt  for more automated dividers  with HMI  integrated to its operation where operators can  change variables from pre programmed software.Basic design are either Crank driven  divider or Hydraulic systems which operates  the ejector , ram ,knife , collector  controlled   by hydraulic directional  valves .
Most used Divider with medium to small bakery are  Crank type mechanical dividers . Its a  device which uses common crank to cut , push and drop  dough piece into equal pieces on the conveyor.
Volume adjustment can be done to correct the weight of these dough piece . Screw along with L –link which change the volume of cylinders to fine tune weights of the dough piece .
Dividers  are rated  by
Capacity  = Strokes /Min  Or   Dough Pieces Per Minutes
We can get bread dough  dividers   which can cut and drop  2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9  dough pieces  and are called tandem dividers .
It has been observed that  initially  the dough is less extensible  but as the time lapses it becomes softer  which affects the weight of dough pieces at bread dough dividers . Hence operator to continuously  adjust  and monitor the  volume of the  cylinder.

Features to  check  for Hydraulic  Bread Dividers

• HMI  to be integrated with hydraulic system of bread divider
• Automatic lubrication system
• Cleaning arrangements for ram , ejector , knife and collector box
• Knife made up of Stainless Steel
• Remote weight control arrangement
• Water wash down to clean entire bread divider
• Cross and inclined conveyor
• Flour duster

Major bakery equipment manufacturers are

• Baker Perkins
• Werner and Pfliederer
• The Peerless group 

Other equipments
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Dough Tilter