Technology/IT | IDM
ANN UAL
SHOW CA SE
First time ever
in De lhi
International trade fair for the
beverage and liquid food industry
9 2017 | international-dairy.com · 27
Robin de Groot, Groba CEO, and Sales Manager Bart van der Vleuten
demonstrate the new laser scanner that regulates potato
starch dosing (photo: IDM)
cheese shredding line that was in assembly during the time of IDM’s
visit. As the customer has almost no space left in his cheese plant,
the line has an extremely small footprint, although the capacity is 4
tons per hour. Groba and the customer decided for a square design
with two 90° redirections of product flow.
The cheese, in this case leftover of trimming cuts of cheese bars,
is done manually. First, the cuts are fed into a cube cutter made by
Groba. The machine works according to the Guillotine principle, guar-
anteeing for exact cube dimensions. Then, the cubes enter a Urschel
cheese shredding machine model CC-DL before being transported
off on a completely new designed conveyor formed as a through in
which potato starch as separating agent is dosed on the shredded
cheese from a Big Bag. A laser scanner measures the thickness of
the cheese layer on the conveying belt across the entire width of
the belt. An automation system calculates the necessary revolution
speed of the spiral conveyor that transports the starch. Compared
to standard ultrasound measuring, Groba’s solution works with a
guaranteed accuracy of +/– 0.3 %. All measurement data are documented
for later evaluation.
The shredded cheese with added starch enters a mixing drum and
from there via a conveyor the multi-head weighers in a height of 6.5
m. All conveyors are executed in a steep angle to save as much space
as possible. Groba was also able to fulfil special customer requirements
in wiring and execution of adapters.
Digitalisation
Groba has cooperated in the cheese shredding line project with
a number of established manufacturers of cutting, weighing and
packaging equipment. The company, however, likes to resort to own
machines whenever possible. The portfolio covers automated defoiling,
trimming/block/portion cutters, feeding of slicers and production
lines for cheese snacks. The supplier benefits in all projects
from the common language with its customers. One may be intent
of what the Dutch tinkerers will present in future to ease customers’
jobs in handling of cheese. Surely, much of it will be digitalisation.
processing + filling + packaging + logistics
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