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139 North Ocean Ave. • Patchogue, NY 11772 • 631-758-3629
At Damascus, the PRIMS system controls all hand scaling operations (100+ ingredients),
and the bulk automated batching system for 2 mixers - one a totally automated Sancassiano
mixing system, and the other a standard horizontal mixer. There are over 200 recipes
and over 300 ingredients in the system. This plant produces flat bread and pita bread.
The system operates 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. The system uses wired and wireless
bar-code scanners and performs inventory control for the entire plant. One of the
objectives of the installation was to replace the existing HB batching system because
of its unreliability.
Recently management looked at a 3½-week report on scaling and
found that on the Sancassiano line the largest total scaling deviation for any ingredients
was + or – 1 lb, not for each batch but for the entire total usage of any ingredient
for the entire 3 ½ weeks! The PRIMS system had almost completely eliminated over-
and under-scaling.
