Unlocking Efficiency: How Industrial Equipment Drives Performance
The core of any retail and wholesale food business is to find effective ways of increasing profit margins, reducing losses and improving production processes to minimise overall costs. To do this, investing in industrial equipment from Teraoka will enhance your business’ performance and product quality with accurate weighing machines, scales, labellers and inspection systems.
Importance of Industrial Equipment for Food Retailers and Wholesalers
Industrial equipment serves as the backbone of the food retail and wholesale industry. Providing machinery that weighs and measures perishable and non-perishable goods accurately so that they can be properly prepared, processed, packaged and presented to consumers for safe consumption. As important as streamlining processes are in production, product quality and transparency must never be compromised.
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Product Safety:
Damaged packaging and incorrect labelling can lead to major health risks. To prevent that from happening inspection systems play a critical role in performing checks to ensure that packaging hasn’t been damaged and that labels are traceable, especially if a product needs to be recalled. Rejectors form a crucial component of product safety and quality by rejecting inspected packaged food items that have been deemed as “Not Good”. Having a rejector system after an inspection system prevents production downtime by having to stop the line and prevents careless mistakes by operators.
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Accurate product measurements, weight and consistency:
Digital weighing scales from Teraoka not only increase productivity but they improve consistency throughout product batches, being able to accurately weigh raw and finished food items. Highly accurate weighing operations are specifically required when small food items need to have the same taste and quality throughout a batch, which Digi industrial platform scales
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Avoiding any food contamination:
Weighing and measuring raw and finished food items for food safety is important, however, detection of possible contamination is vital. To ensure the safety and integrity of packaged and unpackaged food products, wholesale food manufacturers and retail food suppliers use specialised metal detectors to identify any metal contamination. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals can enter the food during processing and packaging which affects poultry, fresh fruit and vegetables as well as dairy and baked goods that are consumed. The presence of other contaminants such as calcified bones or plastics can be picked up by X-ray inspection systems.
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Convenience:
Teraoka’s DPS-5600ll pre-pack scale brings convenience by weighing and labelling food items accurately. A big part of food health and safety is traceability through food labelling, the precise weight, measurements, product characteristics and freshness are printed on the labels, leaving little room for misinterpretation. Industrial equipment is constantly evolving giving food retailers and wholesalers the tools to improve product processing through increased production to meet consumer demands and improve overall efficiency and productivity.
Leaders in Digital Weighing Automation
For almost 40 years, we at Teraoka have been sharing our innovative and dynamic approach to retail and industrial weighing automation with various market sectors in South Africa. Whether you require carcass scales for your butchery or digital weight indicators for accurate pricing on fresh produce, we will be by your side through the installation, implementation and completion of your industrial equipment selection. Contact us to find out more about how our digital automated systems can streamline your production.