Sliced cheese line is keyed by automation and accurac

摘要

Cheese slicing and packaging are taken to a whole new level of speed and automation with the recent installation of Line 5 at Bel Leerdammer Cheese. Even more impressive is the slicing accuracy that's provided by the new line's CFS (www.cfs.com) Giga Slicer. On the day PW visited the plant, located in Wageningen, the Netherlands, giveaway on an eight-slice package with a target weight of 200 g was impressively low. (The firm chooses not to quantify.) Such accuracy, made possible by a new use of X-Ray scanning, is all the more impressive considering that the holes in the cheese make product density something of a moving target and that four logs of cheese are being sliced at one time