A bakery line that keeps up at peak.
ARYZTA, a high-volume bakery, is one of the production floors System Technology has built for. We engineer, fabricate, wire, and install integrated handling and pack-off systems, conveyors, equipment, and controls tied together under one control system, all from a one-stop shop.
A bakery line lives or dies by how its pieces hand off to each other. ARYZTA's problem was not any single machine. It was the gaps between them at full rate. We took the whole stretch, from empty-tray denesting to a loaded pallet, and built it as one system controlled by one PLC.
More product at peak, without the touches.
High volume, tight windows, and no room to add headcount on the floor.
During peak production the existing line ran close to its limit. Operators were stepping in to square up product, clear minor jams at transfers, and keep cases feeding the palletizer evenly. Each manual touch was a place the line could slow down or stop, and at volume those small losses added up across a shift.
On a high-volume bakery line, the hard part isn't any single machine. It's making the handoffs between denesting, settling, conveying, and palletizing behave as one system instead of separate machines bolted together. That's the kind of integration System Technology is built to deliver: one set of drawings, one control system, and one team accountable from first layout through startup.
One integrated handling and pack-off system.
Engineered, fabricated, wired, programmed, and installed by one team.
We designed the line as a single integrated system rather than a string of standalone equipment. Empty trays denest and feed in, product settles and squares up on the move, modular-belt and case-handling conveyors carry it through, and palletizing builds the finished load, all sequenced by one PLC and run from a single UL 508A panel. Because the controls were ours, the transfers were tuned to each other instead of fighting each other.
- Denesting to feed empty trays into the line without operator hand-loading.
- Settling conveyors that square and densify product on the move.
- Modular-belt and case-handling conveyors sized to the product and rate.
- Palletizing that builds finished loads at the end of the run.
- A UL 508A control panel wired and tested in our own panel shop.
- One PLC tying every stage together so the handoffs stay in step.
A one-stop shop owned the whole job: mechanical and electrical engineering, fabrication, panel build, PLC and HMI programming, installation, and startup. No middle integrator, no finger-pointing between vendors when the line came up.
What an integration like this targets.
Representative outcomes for this kind of integrated bakery line.
An integration like this is as much about how the line behaves as any single number. With the handoffs sequenced by one controller and one HMI driving the whole line, operators step out of the flow, changeovers get simpler, and the slow losses at transfers go away. That’s what a single-control-system line is built to deliver.
- Fewer manual touches: operators off the line where work was automated.
- One control system and one HMI for the whole line.
- Faster changeovers driven from a single operator interface.
- One point of accountability from drawing through startup and service.
We don’t do anything halfway. If you’re not 100% satisfied, we will make it right. Just ask our clients that keep coming back.System Technology, Inc.
The line, installed.
The integrated bakery handling and pack-off system in production.
Related capabilities.
The disciplines that made this line one system instead of four.
Integrated Systems
Concept, engineering, fabrication, programming, and installation managed end to end by one team.
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Control Panels
UL 508A, cUL, and CE-approved panels with custom PLC and HMI programming, wired in-house.
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Conveyors
Modular belt, case-handling, and transfer conveyors sized to your product and line speed.
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