Achieving efficient and consistent dough production requires a well-coordinated manufacturing system that precisely handles ingredients, automates mixing, and easily integrates with downstream processes. Exact Mixing’s production line mixing equipment
optimizes every stage of dough preparation, from materials handling to final product formation, ensuring uniform quality, reduced waste, and maximum efficiency.
Explore the key components that make Exact Mixing’s continuous mixing systems the preferred choice for industrial bakeries:
Materials Handling
Materials handling systems efficiently transport raw materials into the mixing area and supply the ingredient metering system.
- Dry ingredients are typically transferred pneumatically from silos, bulk bags, or dumping stations, with options for automated or manual additions.
- Minor dry ingredients are often pre-blended to enhance consistency, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness.
- Liquid ingredients are supplied to the metering system from small tanks near the mixer and automatically refilled to optimize the process.
This integrated approach ensures precise ingredient delivery and consistent mixing results.
Ingredients Metering
Ingredient metering systems deliver precise and consistent ingredient flow into continuous mixers, producing high-quality and uniform dough.
- Utilizing gravimetric Loss-in-Weight technology, these systems provide uninterrupted dry ingredient metering by continuously comparing set points with actual values and alerting operators to discrepancies.
- Liquid ingredients are managed through metering pumps, flow meters, and closed-loop controls, with options for heating or cooling as needed.
For ingredients requiring special handling, such as solid fats, pastes, or delicate particulates, Exact Mixing offers custom-engineered metering solutions to meet specific production challenges.
Operator Interface Controls
Exact Mixing’s operator interface controls simplify and automate the mixing process with an intuitive, menu-driven system.
- Touchscreen interfaces display motor status, recipe setpoints, process values, and alarms, with interactive icons for quick navigation.
- Feeder calibration, trend analysis, historical data graphing, and password-protected formula management allow for precise control and efficient production.
These features allow operators to easily select recipes, monitor metering and mixing, and adjust parameters in real time.
Downstream Equipment
Exact Mixing collaborates with Reading Bakery Systems and other Markel Food Group companies to provide turnkey production solutions.
- Continuous mixing systems integrate with downstream equipment such as sheeters, extruders, depositors, rotary molders, wire-cutters, ovens, fryers, and dough formers.
- A variety of dough handling equipment and fully automated dough rework systems are available to further optimize bakery operations.
This seamless integration optimizes the entire production process, from mixing to final product formation, improving efficiency and quality.
Choosing the Right Mixer for Your Bakery
Exact Mixing offers a range of continuous mixers to meet different dough and production needs. With production capacities ranging from 50 kg/hour to over 10,000 kg/hour, these systems provide efficient, automated solutions that minimize labor while maintaining product consistency.
- EX Continuous Mixer: Gentle mixing for wheat-based doughs.
- HDX Continuous Mixer: Intensive mixing for highly absorbent doughs.
- MX Continuous Mixer: Powerful mixing for high-energy dough processing.
- FX Continuous Mixer: Rapid aeration for low-moisture, absorbent powders and dough.
- LDX Continuous Mixer: Dual-phase mixing for products requiring a creme-up stage followed by final blending.
By selecting the right mixer model, bakeries can enhance efficiency, maintain consistent dough quality, and easily expand production.
Invest in the Best with Exact Mixing
Investing in advanced manufacturing production line mixing equipment is essential for bakeries looking to improve efficiency and product quality. Exact Mixing’s continuous mixing systems integrate precise ingredient handling, automated mixing, and seamless downstream processing for uniform production, reduced waste, and optimized performance. With mixer models designed for different dough types and production demands, Exact Mixing provides the equipment and expertise to help you transform your production line.
