Automation in the industrial bakery sector

The industrial baking sector is characterized by high production volumes and high consumer expectations for quality. This makes delivering consistent quality increasingly challenging, especially when combined with ongoing labor shortages and an aging workforce. To address these challenges, more and more manufacturers are adopting AI technology. With AI-driven food automation systems, we help bakeries move forward with minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.

Quality and High Production Speed: The Challenge

Minor variations in shape, color, dimensions, or toppings can lead to product rejection, waste, or customer complaints. That is why reliable quality control is of the utmost importance. Conventional vision systems and manual inspection often fall short in this regard. AI-driven automation systems offer the speed, accuracy, and reliability you, as a manufacturer, are looking for across a variety of processes.

With AI-driven automation systems, you can:

Ensuring consistent product quality at high line speeds
Detect deviations in shape, color, dimensions, and toppings in a timely manner
Sort products by quality and product specifications
Efficient Scaling Up When Product Variants Change
Reducing reliance on manual labor

Smart technology with high productivity

AI-driven systems make it possible to make lightning-fast decisions about product quality based on image recognition. Thanks to real-time data and intelligent control, deviations are immediately flagged, trends are identified, and processes are continuously optimized. While experienced expertise is gradually disappearing from companies, data-driven systems help preserve that knowledge and experience. This reduces risks and increases the return on your production.

Collaboration with AMF

AMF and QING are collaborating to raise quality standards to a higher level. We do this by combining AMF’s baking expertise with QING’s AI-driven vision technology. Together, we deliver smart inspection solutions that instantly detect anomalies on production lines. Initial results from customers already show improvements in terms of higher efficiency, more stable processes, and reduced waste.

"Our partnership with QING enables us and our customers to move closer to a defect-free production process thanks to smart, AI-driven quality control,"— Jeroen van Vree, Vice President of Sales for EMEA-AP at AMF Bakery Systems.

STAQ® as the digital heart

QING develops automation systems for inspection, sorting, and processing. STAQ® is the digital heart of these food automation systems.

STAQ® stands for See, Think, Act by QING and translates human perception, decision-making, and action into intelligent technology. It is more than just software. It is an integrated control platform that brings together multiple technologies into a single smart and efficient system.

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Applications in Industrial Baking

Our systems are widely used for the inspection, sorting, and processing of baked goods.

Q-See: AI-driven systems for consistent quality assurance.

Standalone solution or integrated into existing production lines
Detection of shape and color abnormalities, damaged products, and foreign objects
Objective quality control and real-time insight into product quality

Q-Sort: AI-driven sorting systems for optimal product quality and maximum efficiency.

Standalone, inline, or integrated solutions via the STAQ® Technology Package
Sort by quality, size, color, and product specifications
Grippers tailored to the product

Q-Process: AI-driven processing systems for precise product processing

Standalone, inline, or integrated solutions via the STAQ® Technology package
Processing applications such as product positioning, pizza topping, and bread slicing
High-Precision Manufacturing Processes