Looking to enhance your bakery’s production efficiency? Exact Mixing’s continuous mixing technology revolutionizes the dough-making process by eliminating the stop-and-start limitations of traditional batch mixing. Instead of producing dough one batch at a time, ingredients are metered, blended, and developed in a steady, uninterrupted flow that keeps production moving.
Explore the key ways continuous mixing helps bakeries achieve faster, smarter, and more efficient production:
- Uninterrupted Production Flow: Batch mixing requires frequent pauses for loading, unloading, and cleaning, which limit output. Continuous mixing runs nonstop, feeding ingredients and discharging dough simultaneously. This steady-state operation maximizes uptime and enables bakeries to produce 20–40% more product per hour than batch systems.
- Shorter Mixing and Changeover Times: Continuous mixing meters and blends ingredients in real time, allowing dough to develop faster and with greater precision. Changeovers take less time because operators no longer need to clean or reset multiple batch bowls. This results in fewer interruptions, longer production runs, and greater flexibility to keep up with production demands.
- Automation Reduces Manual Labor: Continuous mixing automates ingredient delivery, blending, and dough consistency control. With fewer manual steps, a single operator can oversee multiple lines, lowering labor costs while improving productivity. This automation also minimizes human error, ensuring repeatable, consistent dough quality shift after shift.
- Energy and Resource Efficiency: Continuous mixers operate at a constant speed, eliminating repeated motor acceleration and idle time and cutting energy consumption by up to 40%. The process also reduces waste, cooling demands, and the need for additional handling equipment, improving the overall energy efficiency of the entire production line.
- Better Process Control and Product Uniformity: Precise automation maintains ideal mixing torque, hydration, and dough temperature. The result is consistent dough quality, smoother downstream forming and baking, and fewer rejected or off-spec batches, saving both time and raw materials.
For bakeries focused on scalability and profitability, continuous mixing delivers a faster, more reliable way to produce high-quality dough at an industrial scale.
The Exact Mixing Advantage
Exact Mixing is a global leader in continuous mixing technology, helping bakeries of every size produce consistent, high-quality dough with greater efficiency and profitability. Backed by Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), each solution combines precision engineering, proven performance, and reliable support.
- Proven Experience: With hundreds of installations operating worldwide, our equipment is trusted by leading bakeries producing breads, snacks, cookies, and pet treats. Each system is tailored to specific formulations, throughput goals, and production environments.
- Superior Dough Quality: Continuous, real-time ingredient metering ensures precise hydration, uniform texture, and consistent dough temperature. The result is reliable product quality and minimal variation from shift to shift.
- Sanitary, Durable Design: Built with heavy-duty stainless steel and enclosed mixing chambers, Exact Mixing systems simplify cleaning, enhance food safety, and withstand the rigors of continuous industrial production.
- Comprehensive Support: From pilot testing and process evaluation to installation, operator training, and preventive maintenance, we provide complete lifecycle support to maximize system uptime and performance.
Partnering with Exact Mixing means partnering with a team that understands the unique challenges of modern bakery production. With automation, consistency, and efficiency, we help bakeries produce better dough faster and more profitably.
Ready to see the difference continuous mixing can make? Contact Exact Mixing to schedule a pilot test or speak with our team about a system designed to enhance your production efficiency.
