National Weighing & Instruments Takeaway Scale System

In food production, automated portioning reduces operator waste costs and ensures uniformity for the customer.

Using a takeaway scale can increase productivity and reduce ‘giveaways’. Suitable for multiple applications, including pizza topping assembly or packing small tubs of salad by hand, the takeaway scale can determine the amount of product removed from a larger ‘bulk tray’ to enable easy manual handling.

National Weighing’s Takeaway Scale System consists of a Diade DD1010i terminal and AND SC30BM full stainless steel base work. The scale is configured to 20 kg x 2 g and a target value is entered into the terminal to enable the operator to ‘take out’ the desired amount of product.

The indicator screen displays whether the weight is correct, low or high by changing to green, red or yellow, and the system stops the operator moving on until the weight of the current item is acceptable. The terminal monitors the accuracy of the amount being removed and can provide reports on throughput, the number of packs produced by the operator and totals weighed. The system can intelligently reduce tolerance windows once the operator achieves a high level of repeatable portioning accuracy.