SCUDO: The partner in innovation

SCUDO designs and manufactures customized dough mixing solutions with the most advanced technologies on process automation. Starting from the solid and liquid ingredients handling, including sour dough processes, up to different fully automated mixing solutions, to ensure maximum plant efficiency and flexibility.

High cleanability and high-level safety standards are also SCUDO’s main focus. SCUDO loves to manage the dough, and they are both specialists in the mechanical design and the automation of the dough production process. More than 15% of SCUDO’s turnover is dedicated to the R&D Center where it has the opportunity to test different products and techniques to improve its knowledge on the dough mixing and bowl handling process.

SCUDO uses its experience to help customers find the best compromise between the production target of the project, the available budgets and new ideas and technologies in automation, plant flexibility, hygienic design and safety. SCUDO tries to fully understand your process and your needs around it.

SCUDO’s goal on the market is to act as your partner to find the best solution for your dough mixing and bowl handling challenges, working closely together with your team. It can look into total solutions from ingredient handling all the way to mixing and bringing dough on the line.

To fully support customers in making the right choices for their products, SCUDO has developed its own R&D center, including a fully operational test bakery, where customers can test and evaluate SCUDO solutions and see how these might fit into their processes. Most bakeries are looking into more automated solutions. Reasons for that are:

• Lack of personnel

• Increasing production output

• Increasing production complexity

• Increasing the efficiency of available labour force (by letting them do more critical jobs)

• Increasing quality control

• Robustness and reliability of production plants

• Reducing human impact within the production process.

To meet these customers’ needs SCUDO has developed an AGV solution. AGV’s can be very valuable in these systems when resting times are needed and when there are special requirements on stress levels for the dough. Special bins can be used to reduce stress or to allow proofing or autolyse.

The advantage of using AGV’s with these types of mixers is the mechanical ease of the plant. This solution has a lot of advantages:

• Flexibility in layout

• In multiple mixer systems: guaranteed production, even when one mixer is being revised or repaired.

• Possibility of continuous cleaning of the production plant.

• More efficient allocation of the labour force.

• Open system: personnel or forklifts can pass through the production area without disrupting the production.

• Complete integration into a fully automated production process. A complete autonomous process can be offered from ingredient storage until bringing the dough on the line.

For more information you can contact SCUDO by e-mail at: info@scudosolutions.com