AMF produces state-of-the-art mechanical bakery systems. Their advanced machines help customers to optimize operations (‘empowering your bakery to rise’). A next step in AMF’s bakery empowerment is to make the machines smart and data-driven.

AMF decided to partner up with Itility to develop a digital solution for a pizza production line that will:

• Reduce costs – by minimizing cheese give-away.
• Reduce manual operations – by automating visual inspections.
• Ensure product quality – by increasing consistency of the pizza production process.

About AMF

AMF supports bakeries around the world with best-in-class unit equipment and complete system solutions to optimize operations, improve product quality and empower bakery teams. AMF offers local service and support around the globe, with locations in the USA, the Netherlands, UK, China, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and UAE.

Challenge

AMF wanted to smartify its systems and operational processes around it. Starting with pizza production lines, which make thousands of pizzas every hour. In the existing way of working, operators manually check the quality and quantity of the ingredients on a pizza. With cheese being the most expensive ingredient on a pizza, AMF wanted to validate if using new data techniques could automate that process — resulting in a predefined, optimal, and consistent amount of cheese on a pizza.

" AMF wanted to validate if using new data techniques could automate that process — resulting in a predefined, optimal, and consistent amount of cheese on a pizza."

Requirements

AMF builds advanced mechanical machines, such as pizza production lines. To turn those into ‘smart’ lines, they needed to find a digital solution partner who could meet the following requirements:

• Enable and drive AMF’s digital roadmap and take AMF’s machines to a digital level.
• Create a high-available solution in a fast-feedback loop that is able to cope with high production volumes.
• Make the digital solution work operationally in a production environment.
• Team up with the AMF engineers and their customers to flawlessly integrate the solution in existing operations.