Portioning and Packing Solution - chicken fillet

With Scanvaegt’s advanced, integrated portioning and packaging solution, you receive a fully scalable and automated line for cutting, packing, and labeling chicken fillets—with minimal manual handling and maximum operational reliability

Customized packaging line to suit your needs
Scanvaegt combines expertise in weighing, cutting, and packing into an integrated production line tailored to your specific requirements. Our one-stop-shop concept makes it easy to implement a comprehensive solution that optimizes both operations and resource usage.

With the help of real-time data, production can be continuously monitored and adjusted, creating a streamlined and profitable production flow.

1. X-Ray inspection
Before cutting, the chicken fillets undergo X-ray inspection to detect any bone fragments or other solid contaminants.

If the system identifies a fragment, the fillet is automatically rejected. This ensures that only boneless fillets proceed further in the process, thereby guaranteeing high food safety standards and superior quality in the final product.

2. Cutting with ScanCut 400
Following the X-ray inspection, the fillets are conveyed to the portion cutter, ScanCut 400, which cuts to fixed weights and customer-specific patterns. All trimmings are automatically removed.

Advantages:

• Adjustable cutting angles: 45°, 60°, 75°, 90°
• Precise blue laser technology for optimal measurement, enabling rapid and highly accurate cutting
• User interface with real-time 3D visualization of the product and cutting patterns

The ScanCut 400 ensures consistent, accurately portioned chicken fillets on the production line, maximizing yield while minimizing waste.

3. Dynamic weighing and portioning
The ScanBatcher SB520 provides fast and flexible batching of fresh chicken fillets based on either weight or quantity. The system consists of three components: feeding, dynamic weighing, and portioning.

Once the target portion weight is reached, the fillets are manually styled and packed—this is the first manual intervention in the process.

Customization options:

Supports up to 64 sorting/styling stations

Capabilities include:
Tolerance batching: Intelligent grouping of products with varying weights to meet target weight and/or quantity within upper and lower batch limits, minimizing giveaway.
Minimum batching: Sorting products into batches that meet a minimum target weight or quantity.
Sizing: Sorting products by weight or size into fixed-weight portions

4. Checkweighing
The styled trays are weighed again on a Scanvaegt inline checkweigher to ensure accurate weight. Trays that fall outside tolerance limits are rejected for repacking. The machine is customized for the product characteristics and optimized for food production environments.

The compact and flexible machine design allows integration into most packaging lines.

User-friendly operation and clear screen instructions guide the operator.

The hygienic design of the checkweigher is ideal for fresh, unpackaged food products.

5. Metal detection
After check weighing, trays are scanned for metal contaminants. If any metal foreign bodies are detected, the tray is immediately rejected.

Detection capabilities down to 0.8 mm (iron) and 1.0 mm (stainless steel) particles

6. Automatic Weigh-Price Labeling
Following metal detection, approved trays are labeled by the Scanvaegt WPL system, which automatically applies precise weight and price information.

Specifications:

• Fast and accurate labeling
• Flexible labeling options

7. Vision inspection of sealing and labeling
An advanced vision sensor verifies that trays are properly sealed and labeled. This step prevents errors such as leaking seals, unreadable barcodes, incorrect weights, or mislabeling, thereby reducing the risk of product recalls.

8. Box labeling
The finished trays are packed into boxes, which are weighed and labeled automatically. The system verifies correct placement and readability of both weight and barcode labels.

9. Palletizing
Subsequently, boxes are automatically stacked onto pallets, which are labeled with a final shipping label and prepared for dispatch.