Product category:
Weighing systems, Strain gauges
News Release from: Stevens Group | Subject: Recipe formulation systems
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 July 2005
Recipe systems 'deliver' for Domino
Pizzas
Recipe formulation systems installed by the Stevens Weighing are ensuring Domino Pizzas, the leading UK pizza delivery company, exceed their customer expectations for taste, consistency and delivery
Recipe formulation systems installed by the Stevens Weighing Group, are ensuring Domino Pizzas, the leading UK pizza delivery company, exceed their customer expectations in terms of product taste, consistency and delivery The three systems, which also include the full Stevens stock control function, are helping to control production at the Domino manufacturing sites in Milton Keynes, Penrith and Dublin
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 9 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Dont let ATEX weighing drive you up the wall
The Stevens Weighing Group has produced their own Hazardous Area wall poster to help customers understand the fundamentals of hazardous area weighing and the implications of the ATEX directive
Securitas count on Stevens cash weighing service
A comprehensive service and support programme is bringing additional benefits to Securitas Cash Management at their cash and coin centres, totalling 28 sites across the UK
Ingredients are brought through the facilities and logged at each step of the way through to the actual production point using the stock control system.
Only ingredients released by the stock control function can be used in any actual production run.
As with most specialist food manufacturers, the variety and diversity of Domino pizzas dictate that the recipes are made up by manually adding the ingredients.
Further reading
Testing times for food traceability legislation
According to Stevens Weighing Group, the implications of the new food safety and traceability regulations are being severely tested as the latest Sudan1 food scare unfolds.
Recipe quality and traceability for Tesco contract
Stevens Weighing Group has supplied and installed a multi-station Vantage Recipe Formulation and Traceability System for Inter Link Foods at their newly acquired facility in Poland
Recipe consistency relies on operator diligence and dexterity to achieve accurate target weights for the ingredients.
Therefore keeping track of the individual amounts of each ingredient used, whilst also ensuring all the correct ingredients are added, can be a daunting task.
Stevens Weighing have extensive experience in this area and their recipe formulation modules have been specifically developed to provide a complete recipe management, stock control and traceability system.
This virtually eliminates onerous paper based systems and allows customers to operate in control mode, not panic mode.
Using the ingredient management function on the Recipe Formulation System terminal, the ingredients are all correctly portioned out in the weights as specified and are then mixed together to create the dough balls from which the pizza bases are created.
Making up the batches is very straightforward and the terminal screen prompts the operator throughout the formulation process.
As the correct amount of each ingredient is added, the operator is prompted to the next stage.
The operator is not allowed to continue if the incorrect ingredient is selected or the wrong amount added.
If too much of a particular ingredient is added, the batch size can be recalculated to accommodate the error.
Detailed instructions relating to product characteristics are also flagged up to ensure adequate health and safety requirements are met.
Mr Gareth Franks, head of food service for Domino Pizza, is very positive about the installations and as he concludes: "By ensuring that each individual ingredient weight is correct ensures excellent product consistency in all the batches and significantly reduces giveaway - thereby increasing bottom line profitability.
The Stevens systems enable us to exercise total control over our manufacturing process and this is critical if we are to promise consistent, safe and high quality products to our customers.
The system provides full traceability in line with European legislation and we can access important data at the touch of a button.".
• Stevens Group: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Processingtalk email newsletter
• Processingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
