Servos serve up speed and flexibility

摘要

Baker of ladyfingers relies on servos, vertical accumulation buffer, and multipacker redundancy to run 180 12-count primary packs/min into a variety of secondary packs. Tucked away in the hills above Verona, Italy, is a family-owned commercial bakery called Forno Bonomi that dates back to 1850. Ladyfingers, the egg-based sweet biscuits that are the foundation of that ever-so-popular desert known as Tiramisu, are one of Bonomi's specialties. And while the ingredients used to produce these delicacies today haven't changed a whole lot since the 1850s, the highspeed packaging systems recently installed by Renato Bonomi and his two brothers could hardly have been imagined by their 19th century ancestors.