A FoodJet depositor with vision puts your design on each biscuit or cookie: two eyes and a smile, a motif, a line pattern, a word or a seasonal design, in chocolate or compound. Vision measures every biscuit, so the design is fitted to that one biscuit, even when it lies off-centre or rotated, on a belt or on baking trays. A new design is a recipe, not new tooling.
A design only works when it lands on the biscuit, in the right place. On many lines decoration is still done by hand, which depends on people who are hard to find. A stringer runs continuously, so it can only draw lines, and it draws them between the biscuits too. A one-shot depositor puts the same deposit in the same place, so the biscuits have to be aligned and every new design asks for new tooling.
A vision system reads the position, rotation and outline of every biscuit. The FoodJet Control Platform fits the stored design to that biscuit as a droplet pattern, and a heated depositing head with a row of individually controlled nozzles places it on the moving belt or tray. The design turns with the biscuit and follows its size.
Two eyes and a smile, dots, lines, a word, a heart or a pumpkin for Halloween: each design is a file in the recipe. You can run a different design per lane, or mix designs in one run, and load another design during production without stopping the line.
Each nozzle opens only where the design needs it, so the chocolate you pay for ends up on your biscuits. You buy less chocolate, and your line needs less cleaning.
Vision checks every biscuit against the limits the operator has set. A biscuit that is broken or misshapen gets no decoration, and its status is passed on to your line, so your reject system knows which one to take out.
By hand or fixed tool | FoodJet with vision | |
|---|---|---|
Placement | By hand, or fixed for aligned biscuits | Vision reads the position and rotation of each biscuit |
Design | One pattern per tool, or by hand | Your own design, fitted to each biscuit in the recipe |
Design change | New tooling, nozzle plate or retraining | Load another recipe; designs can differ per lane |
Chocolate | Also on the belt or tray | On the biscuit, where the design puts it |
Cookie decorating on trays · Jellies on biscuits · Graphical decoration
Send us your biscuit or cookie, your tray or belt layout, the design you have in mind, your chocolate or compound and your line speed. We test it on your own product. After the trial, we advise on the setup for your line and send you a proposal.