Oh crumbs, solved at last

摘要

Automated production for biscuit crumbs, breakfast cereals and snack foods outs the emphasis on safety. A process that defied automation has finally been brought into the 21st century by systems integrator Clint Johnson of the wonderfully named Control Freaks, who has developed an all-Mitsubishi Electric solution. He automated a machine for producing biscuit crumbs, breakfast cereal and snack foods, replacing a labour intensive manual process with one that guarantees consistent results. "The basic process is to mix ingredients into uniform pellets and dry them," explains Johnson. "Sounds easy enough, but the devil is in the detail." Getting a consistent mix was difficult, and the liquid content needed to form pellets tended to cause the entire mix to clag up into one stodgy amorphous lump.