Preparation is everything – and now more efficient than ever with the Weber wePRESS
A uniform product significantly reduces waste during slicing and increases yield to a maximum – even with irregularly shaped natural products. Moreover, appealing, and uniform portions are not only important to retailers but crucial to customers when making the final buying decision. The innovative Weber form press wePRESS makes it possible.
Higher yield, more automation, more sustainability through better product utilization and continuous production.
With the wePRESS, products such as streaky bacon, back bacon, raw ham, and fresh meat can be perfectly formed. Thanks to the intelligent servo-driven press technology, the Weber DynaForm technology, the products are formed gently and efficiently, yet with powerful precision. The products are formed evenly and completely from all sides to the required length, width, and height. It’s all made possible by the different, dynamically movable axes of the wePRESS. These individual pressing steps produce perfectly formed products, which in turn yield excellent slicing results downstream.
The Weber forming press compels with astonishing performance: Depending on the application, the wePRESS can shape up to 15 products per minute. During the development of the wePRESS, Weber paid particular attention to energy efficiency and sustainability. Therefore, Weber eliminated hydraulics and pneumatics and instead relies on energy-efficient servo-drive technology. Heating or cooling of oil tanks or hydraulic pumps with an electric pre-heater or external cooling media is no longer necessary, which generates significant energy savings and consequently cost savings.
Whether manual or automatic loading, food processing companies have a choice and can customize the Weber form press entirely to their needs. Removal and installation of all extremely lightweight format parts for cleaning or format change-over are easy, reliable, and tool-free. The format parts of the wePRESS are automatically identified using an RFID code to prevent crashes caused by faulty installation of format parts, which could lead to significant repair costs. If the format parts are incompatible, the press does not start. The flexibility of the Weber format set makes it possible to process a wide selection of raw product of various sizes using the same format set – even with higher product fluctuations that require significant reshaping. With the innovative light screen safety technology, starting the forming process does not require switches, buttons or pedals, which makes for especially ergonomic operation.
For the perfect integration of the wePRESS into a Weber solution, Weber has developed an intelligent lift loading conveyor that unfolds its full potential in combination with Weber slicers that are equipped with Vario gripper technology. In addition to taking over the formed products and transferring them to the downstream scanner or slicer, the lift loading conveyor has smart distribution capability for the products to lane 1 or 2 for two-fold slicing of products of different weights or lengths, such as bacon. To backfill the lane with fewer portions, the lift loading conveyor automatically distributes the longer or heavier product to the respective lane to be completed. The information needed for this process is calculated from the perfect interaction between the components and by means of intelligent line networking: The wePRESS precisely detects the product dimensions and, using the servo-axis data, can accurately calculate the weight of the product. On the basis of this calculation as well as the portion required by the downstream infeeder, the slicer controls the distribution of the products. This smart and highly automated function not only reduces empty packs as well as manual rework and labor in the infeed area. Overall, the lift loading conveyor saves personnel costs and significantly increases the production continuity as well as the throughput.
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