SensoBack - Development of a sensor, control and control centre system with cloud connection for small bakery production
This project is funded by the European Union and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
Description:
Today, highly automated production systems are used for efficient and high-quality production of small baked goods. However, even the latest high-performance systems cannot completely avoid resource losses. In addition to the sometimes unavoidable start-up and run-out losses in individual production batches, fluctuating flour properties and changing environmental conditions repeatedly result in products that do not meet the baker's quality specifications and are destroyed.
In addition, there is often the problem of overproduction. This is because a quantity safety factor is added to the net quantities required in order to compensate for losses caused by poor quality. Last but not least, due to increasing hygiene regulations, the energy-intensive cleaning of fermentation tanks is carried out at fixed, often too frequent intervals, as the actual hygiene status of the machine cannot currently be taken into account.
For the same reason, contamination can occur at other points, which is only noticed by the operator at a late stage. The overall aim is therefore to significantly reduce this loss of resources.
The sub-goals are:
1. to develop a sensor system that detects at several points in the production process whether the dough blanks meet the quality specifications in terms of weight, shape and dough properties. This sensor system should also monitor the hygiene status of the system at the relevant points.
2. development of an inline process control system that fulfils two tasks: Process parameters of the machine are continuously controlled in such a way that optimum product quality is guaranteed. Dough pieces that still do not meet the quality requirements are automatically ejected and returned to the dough material for reuse.
3. development of a cloud-based control centre system for the production of small baked goods. This control centre system automatically calculates the gross requirement quantity to be produced from the information from the bakery POS systems and the process parameters of the production plant in order to avoid overproduction. Intelligent networking with other systems via the cloud enables an automated exchange of knowledge with a view to optimising process control.
Duration:July 2019 -June 2022
Total funding amount: € 1.46 million
Participants:
- WP Kemper GmbH
- Universität Paderborn / Heinz Nixdorf Institut
- Fraunhofer-IEM
- myview systems GmbH
- CLK GmbH
Development goal:
With over 18 years of experience in the field of database-supported product communication, myview systems is one of the most established providers of products and solutions for catalogue and product information management.
With xom, myview offers an API first platform and an innovative ‘Backend as a Service’ infrastructure (BaaS) with a flexible REST API. xom is designed for cloud operation and addresses the processing and distribution of large amounts of data in Industry 4.0 application environments.
The research project draws on expert knowledge built up over the last 18 years in the development of data-intensive information models. The products and solutions of myview systems have been consistently focussed on web technology since the beginning of its business activities. Therefore, myview has the necessary experience in the design and implementation of a software-as-a-service concept as well as in the provision and processing of large amounts of data via a cloud and network infrastructure.
Contact person: Dr.-Ing. Lars Seifert