Case Study
Pizza production made easy with Optidrive
Problem
The manufacturer was updating its pizza production facility and needed to ensure a specified amount of cheese was sprinkled on to its pizzas for consistency and cost. The Optidrive E3's performance, reliability and ease of use, including the option of an Optistick Smart to allow fast and accurate repeat programming, means that the Frima NV factory is now almost completely standardised with the Invertek Drives.
Solution
The Optidrive E3 drive has provided an ideal solution, allowing precise amounts of cheese to be consistently applied to each pizza whilst removing the need for expensive and less reliable manual labour for the task.
FRIMA NV
Frima NV are an Ostende-based provider of ready meals supplying a wide range of pizza and ready meal products for the French market. The company is also increasingly specialising in BIO food.
The food manufacturing plant has historically specialised in making pizzas with fresh fish taken straight from the ships in the Ostende harbour.
In this application, Frima NV needed to upgrade pizza production lines to automate the process of sprinkling cheese on to pizza bases. The Optidrive E3 drive has provided an ideal solution, allowing precise amounts of cheese to be consistently applied to each pizza whilst removing the need for expensive and less reliable manual labour for this task.
The Optidrive E3 drives were supplied by Motronic, Invertek Drives sales partner based in Brugge. Kenneth Demeulemeester , Technical Representative at Motronic, said: "Optidrive E2 is the most commercially competitive Optidrive, being dedicated to low power applications where total costs are ultra-competitive. Optidrive E3 has only 14 standard parameters to adjust in its basic form, thus Optidrive's legendary ease of use could not be easier or quicker to get started with. These two factors alone have meant that Optidrive E3 has been a resounding success in this application.
The Optidrive E3's performance, reliability and ease of use, including the option of an Optistick Smart to allow fast and accurate repeat programming, means that the Frima NV factory is now almost completely standardised with the Invertek Drives.
