Food and Beverage Solutions
Improve Your Product Quality, Your Productivity, and Reduce Production Costs
The food and beverage industry is being asked to produce more and spend less in production record times with improved quality.
A&D Weighing has the end-to-end weighing and inspection solutions you need for each stage of production:
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Product conception in research and development
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Product production and processing
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Quality control of raw materials during intake
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Packaging and filling of finished goods
Consistency: How Do You Measure a Pinch or a Dash?
Consistency is important to ensure a homogenous product look, feel, and taste.
You can ensure your product meets consumer expectations by testing your product with A&D equipment throughout manufacturing for:
- Moisture content to ensure shelf-life
- Quality control sampling with analytical or precision balances, and
- Viscosity tests of your liquids
Find out how to improve your moisture results with our moisture prep infographic
Scalability and Flexibility for Any Recipe
Whether you’re making a few dozen scones or a hundred thousand candies per day, A&D Weighing can help you formulate the right recipe.
A&D Weighing offers weighing equipment that spans a large range of capacities, plus the ability to weigh in units that meet your needs, like ounces, pounds, weighing by percent and more.
In addition to Bench Scales, A&D Weighing offers Counting Scales, Compact Scales, and even Indicators to connect with Weighing Pans for more custom solutions. Find what’s best for you here.
Sticky Syrups and Sugar
The viscosity of your ingredients influences consistency, appearance, and texture of a product, so it is an important variable to monitor in most production stages.
Whether your are producing sauces, dips, or liquid additives, knowing the flow properties can help improve your quality control processes.
And A&D Weighing’s Viscometers can get results in as little as 20 seconds.
Not Everything is Dishwasher Safe
Manufacturers deal with wet environments, requiring washdown-rated equipment. And the use of harsh cleaning chemicals can cause premature deterioration.
We offer a variety of IP-rated products for both production and the laboratory to meet your hazardous environment needs — and prolong the life of your equipment.
See our IP rated products.
Sometimes a Baker’s Dozen Won’t Cut It
Overfilling your product hurts your bottom line, and underfilling can have legal implications and damage your brand’s reputation.
Utilizing weighing equipment, such as A&D’s static or in-motion checkweighers, throughout your process can ensure that you are not giving away product, and that you are meeting specifications of your customers – avoiding chargebacks and other fees.
Check out our Static Checkweighers
See how In-motion Checkweighers can increase your ROI
Avoiding & Detecting Contamination
Every production zone is an opportunity for contaminants to reach your product.
A&D’s inspection equipment reduces contamination risk with stainless-steel designs, for easy cleaning between runs, and NSF approved sanitary design.
Additionally, A&D’s metal detectors and X-rays can find:
- Ferrous material, like stainless steel
- Non-ferrous material, like aluminum
- Glass, Bone, Plastics and Other Contaminants
Worflow Integration
Research and Development
All food and beverage products are conceived in an R&D lab in small batches or test recipes that are perfected and formulated before scaling up in production. At this stage, you may need to utilize products like:
Balances ranging from analytical to precision to high capacity benchtop during formulation
Moisture analyzers to help R&D determine the right moisture content at every step before production to ensure consistency
Food Lab Quality Control
Providing consistent product quality while assuring food safety throughout manufacturing is essential, which means adhering to GLP standards and food safety regulations.
Analytical and precision balances combine high resolution SHS weighing technology along with a robust feature-set to provide precise weighing results.
Viscometers are the ideal testing instrument, providing quick results suitable for random spot checks in quality control.
Material Receiving
You need to ensure full control over quantity and quality of incoming goods.
Bench scales provide efficient identification of raw materials, a basic requirement for controlling your incoming goods and monitoring in-take.
Moisture analyzers during in-take help you avoid paying for raw materials that have too much or too little moisture upon receipt.
Production
Improve production efficiency with less product giveaway.
Static checkweighers visually verify over/under/okay packages, allowing workers to quickly correct the package without guesswork.
Indicators and weigh cells provide data acquisition to the product line where metrics like tons per hour can be tracked.
In-motion checkweighers increase productivity and reduce labor, which leads to quick ROI; they also provide 100% inspection as all products from your line flow through them.
Packaging and Filling
Assure legal compliance and reduce under and overfill.
In-line checkweighers validate fill level and inspect for over/underweight packages, safeguarding against false rejects and allowing packers to differentiate themselves through promotion of higher quality standards.
In-line metal detectors guard against the smallest of contaminants while minimizing the risk of false rejects.
In-line X-rays detect metal and can find contaminants such as plastic, bone, stone, missing components, non-conforming shapes, and more.
FOOD & BEVERAGE TOOLBOX
Improve Your Moisture Results
Moisture analysis is an effective and efficient way to assure the quality of your products. Get started on the basics with this simple infographic.
How to Clean Your Balance in 8 Easy Steps
Keeping a balance cleaned and maintained can dramatically increase the life of your balance as well as the quality of your weighing results.
7 Things to Consider Before Buying a Checkweigher
There are several factors that play into successful checkweighing, including product types and sizes, environmental conditions and other variables that should be properly gauged that affect accuracy.
Washdown Scale Guide
Find out which washdown scale is the right one for your application.