Case Studies

Over the years Reading Thermal has used the SCORPION® to help numerous customers, throughout the world, solve their processing problems. Reading Thermal technicians have collected data on hundreds of ovens, from all major oven manufactures, developing a level of expertise that is unmatched in the industry. Below you will find a series of case studies demonstrating this expertise and how the SCORPION® was used to solve specific problems.

Click the case study links below to see how the SCORPION® helped solve these problems.

Clogged Air Knife
A company is having trouble producing product with a consistent bake, causing low yields…

Locating the Source of Oven Fires
Product enters a bakery’s oven and lifts off the belt, somewhere in the oven, causing oven fires…

Making the same product on Multiple Lines
A company is trying to match product on a new oven installation to that produced on four existing lines…

Humidity vs. Efficiency within Ovens
A company has two similar production lines with one consistently producing more pounds per hour than the other…

Increasing Oven Capacity
A company is closing a plant and needs to transfer production to another plant requiring a 15% increase in oven capacity…

Production Consistency on Two Different Ovens
A company has two completely different ovens and is trying to make the same quality product on both lines…

Effect of Oven Chamber Height
A company has four DGF ovens baking the same product with different efficiencies…