A (3D) vision for the bakery industry
T
his is the fourth edition of our JLS
have met yesterday’s ROI requirements
our systems. In addition, the new camera
“VISION” magazine and will focus
are now on the priority list for funding as
solutions available offer Machine Learning
on a key segment of our business–
in many cases, labor shortages are chok-
Algorithms that allow us to optimize line
bakery. Depending on the year, the bakery
ing output. Additionally, the competitive
efficiencies without human intervention.
segment is our largest revenue segment
pressures on the labor pool have driven
In a similar manner, our newly released
as well as the highest volume of robots
wages to unthinkable levels, pre-pandem-
ABA - Adaptive Balancing Algorithm -
that we deploy. As a result, we felt that it
ic. Bakeries need to run 24/5 or 24/6 and
gives JLS an adaptive solution to handling
was important to dedicate an issue to the
staffing those lines on second and third
imbalances of product flow created by
bakery industry.
shift really causes issues in finding labor.
irregularities in product or flow upstream.
JLS has been involved with bakery ap-
JLS has provided a number of intriguing
disturbances to flow and maintains high
plications for over a dozen years and has
solutions for handling bakery products
throughput, but with filled containers or
provided some of the largest installations
from cupcakes to tortillas to fresh dough.
flights leaving the system and with mini-
of delta robots in North America. Those
We have several tooling patents and re-
mal or no product going by.
have mostly been on the primary side of
cently received a patent on our Peregrine
operations, but now with the Peregrine®
cartoner for our use of the independent
As more and more of our customers are
carton loading and closing system, we
mover technology.
looking to JLS to provide complete inte-
ABA automatically compensates for these
are able to address full line automation
grated line solutions, we have partnered We are excited about where technol-
with a number of flow wrapper companies
case packers are growing in importance
ogy is going in a number of areas. We
and carton forming firms to be able to do
as the flexibility of vision guided robotic
just shipped a new camera system for
just that. JLS is the bakery industry’s trust-
equipment is more important than ever.
JLS using a low cost, but powerful 3D
ed partner when it comes to solving even
camera. We believe that it won’t be long
the toughest production line problems.
Just like in the meat industry, our focus on
before 3D is our standard as it offers a
hygienic robotic solutions for the bakery
number of advantages including simpler
Craig A. Souser,
industry is more relevant than ever with
commissioning on some straightforward
President and CEO
the enormous challenges that our custom-
applications as well as excellent mea-
ers face in finding and retaining a viable
surement and inspection tools that were
labor force. Applications that may not
previously deemed too slow or costly for
2 VISION
for baked goods producers. Our Osprey®
