When producing millions of products every day, process control is imperative. See how a German chocolate bar manufacturer is realizing raw materials savings of about 3 tons every day by leveraging technology to optimize its filling process.
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With over 3 million chocolate bars produced every day, Ritter Sport is one of the biggest chocolate brands in Germany. The family-owned company is known for their square chocolate bars that are exported to more than 100 countries.
Sweet efficiency
The goal for Ritter Sport is to optimize filling so under-filling is eliminated and overfilling minimized. With a daily production of more than 3 million bars, reducing overfilling by just 1 gram per bar can save the company about 3 tons of raw material every day. Ritter Sport achieves this savings by performing net content control at different points along their production lines
Two ways to reduce overfilling
The company uses two methods to check net content. Square bars are manually checked whereas specialty bagged products are inspected with automatic checkweighers. Data from all checkweighers are collected and reviewed with FreeWeigh.Net® statistical quality and process control software.
Efficient manual control
Square chocolate bars are checked immediately after the bars have been pressed out of the molding form. An operator takes samples from the belt at a predefined time interval. These samples are checked on a METTLER TOLEDO ICS bench scale and the data is stored and managed with FreeWeigh.Net.
An adaptable system, easily integrated
A wide range of standard devices and specialized instruments can be run with FreeWeigh.Net. Checkweighers, metal detectors and other instruments can be linked and integrated into a single quality-reporting system.
Ritter Sport has been pleased with the easy integration FreeWeigh.Net provides. Company management is confident that METTLER TOLEDO products will continue to be an integral part of Ritter Sport's continued growth well into the future.