Case Study

Produces cake for Korean convenience stores using the VS line

In Korea, under the name of the food safety management certification, the government imposed a certification of HACCP on eight kinds of items and companies with 10 billion won in May 2014.
The eight kinds of items include sweets, candies, bread, mochi, chocolate, and fast food. In response to this, FIORE, a new brand, was launched along with a new factory.
FIORE’s current signature products are bouchee and castella. In October 2016, the company started supplying their products to CU, a Korean major convenience store franchise.

VS line for sheet cake and bouchees

FIORE adopted a VS line in 2016. They produce sheet cake that is inspired by Japanese castella, and bouchee for CVS in Korea.
Paper roll sheets are laid out on the Caterpillar Type Oven to continuously produce items without using sheet pans. Of course, sheet pans can be used in the manufacturing as well.
Product cycles in Korean CVS are approximately half a year. With this in mind, FIORE adopted a VS line so that they would be able to change products to manufacture in the future. They gave a positive assessment on how easy it is to perform maintenance.
The president, who is also a mechanical engineer, and the product development manager develop new products. In the near future, the HACCP certification is a must to sell products in Korea. FIORE’s products all have a HACCP certification mark on their packages.

Sheet cake

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  Sheet cake with moderate thickness is continuously manufactured without any cake being unevenly baked.

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  A paper roll sheet where some depth is created using a paper folding machine is laid out. The System Depoly deposits the batter on the sheet, the oven bakes the batter, and then the baked cake is cut both horizontally and vertically. All of these processes are fully automated.

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  Big Green Tea Castella

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  Big Castella, thick sponge cakes with milk cream inside

Bouchee

From the process of depositing the batter to sandwiching, all processes are fully automated.

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  The System Depoly deposits the batter on the paper roll sheet, powdered sugar is applied, the oven bakes the batter, the cream is deposited, and then the cream is sandwiched.

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  Tokyo Bouchee has a milk cream flavor and strawberry cream flavor.