Smartline
The Smartline processes all types of dough – particularly highly-hydrated, soft or pre-leavened dough – into uniform, tension-free dough bands. With a minimum dough band thickness of 0.4 mm, it is also possible to produce thin dough products. The unique satellite head ensures that the dough structure is preserved as much as possible and guarantees consistent process reliability.
Is Smartline the right fit for your business?
Maximum flexibility for your production system: With Smartline, you can feed your line automatically and in a way that is particularly gentle on the dough. From soft, highly-hydrated doughs to firm laminated blocks – the Smartline ensures a uniform, tension-free dough band while preserving the dough structure. This allows you to automate your production and efficiently improve the quality of your wide range of baked goods.
Adjustable satellite head
Uniquely gentle
The centrepiece of the Smartline ensures that the roller reduction process is carried out with the utmost care for every type of dough. The pore structure and laminated layers are preserved – the basis for perfect baked goods.
300 – 1,200 kg
Dough per hour
You can feed your make-up line or croissant machine efficiently with up to 1,200 kg of dough per hour (depending on the product).
0.4 – 30 mm
Dough band thickness
With the optional cross roller and up to 3 perfectly matched calibrators, you can achieve the exact dough band width and thickness you require.
Smartline and Starline
Producing grain sticks
The video shows the automated production of decorative-cut grain sticks using the RONDO Smartline and Starline. Take a look at all the steps in the process in detail.
Strengths of the Smartline
Perfect for any type of dough
- Processes all types of dough
- Even thin dough (min. 0.4 mm)
- Quick product changeovers without long retooling times
Whether it’s ciabatta, baguettes, focaccia, seeded rolls, crackers, yeast pastries, donuts, pizza, scones, sweet rolls, naan bread, sheet cakes, thin dough products or baked goods made from puff pastry, croissant dough, Danish dough or shortcrust pastry: You can cover your entire product range with just a single line.
Tension-free doughs ensure superior quality
- Unique, adjustable satellite
- Particularly gentle dough processing
- Maximum process reliability
Perfect baked goods start with a top-quality dough band. Smartline can process even the most challenging doughs gently and effortlessly – ensuring consistently high quality and precise weight.
Increase automation - reduce costs
- Automated sheeting and feeding
- Can be expanded to include a dough band former, elevating conveyor belt and stocking hopper
- Laminating in combination with the MLC 4.0
The time-consuming process of making dough bands is automated – saving you valuable time and reducing your operating costs. When combined with the MLC 4.0, this creates a multifunctional line, in an L- or U-shape that also allows you to automate the laminating process.
Your line, made to measure
- Dough band former
- Cross roller
- Up to 3 calibrators
- Rondo duster for grains and seeds
We will equip your production line with the necessary accessories tailored to your dough types and your desired level of automation. You will receive the exact solution that you require.
Operation: Child’s play for everyone
- Colour touch screen with the Rondo Control Concept
- Easily comprehensible icons
- All the key information at a glance
- Over 100 programs
- Integration of upstream and downstream machines
The modern control concept, RCC, and the stored programs ensure that any employee can achieve perfect results straight away.
Time for production, not cleaning
- Smooth surfaces, stainless steel construction
- Easily accessible components
- Interchangeable flour dusters
- Materials certified for food use
A great many sophisticated details ensure fast and simple cleaning, enabling hygienic production conditions.
The unique satellite head – precision for every type of dough
Quality begins with the dough band. Each type of dough has its own characteristics and poses different sheeting challenges. The position of our unique satellite head, the centrepiece of the Smartline, can be adjusted with ease. You determine the rolling distance and, consequently, the intensity and duration of the dough processing. The result: The pore structure and lamination layers – these dough properties that are crucial to quality – are preserved to the highest standard. Once you’ve set them perfectly, save the parameters at the touch of a button in the program – for consistently top-quality results with every batch.
Satellite behind the lower roller
For soft doughs
Whether it’s ciabatta or long-fermented traditional bread: Soft doughs with a high water content must be handled with the utmost care. To preserve the delicate flavours and the light, airy texture from the bulk fermentation, the Smartline Satellite is positioned behind the lower roller. The steep, deliberately short rolling surface reduces processing time to a minimum and guarantees a particularly light and airy baked result.
Satellite directly above the lower roller
For firm doughs
Unproofed yeast doughs, as well as laminated puff pastry and croissant doughs, require precision and gentle processing. Position the Smartline satellite directly above the lower roller to achieve a flat, long rolling surface. This ensures that the dough is fed in smoothly and rolled out slowly and evenly, so that the texture and layers of fat are perfectly preserved.
Ideal for these baked goods
From firm puff pastry to soft ciabatta dough: Smartline shapes every batch of dough into a perfect, tension-free dough band. This provides the perfect basis for a wide variety of baked goods, such as:
Tension-free dough bands with Smartline
Smartline shapes your dough into uniform, tension-free dough bands and reliably feeds them into the downstream make-up lines or croissant machines. No matter the dough type, the process remains the same.
Feeding
Feeding
Depending on the production volume, dough pieces are placed manually onto the infeed belt, or the Smartline is fed automatically using the Smart Feeder dough band former. This cost-effective solution for larger capacities can also be expanded to include an elevating conveyor and a stocking hopper. For final sheeting of laminated doughs, the blocks of dough can be placed on the line.
Flour dusters and seed dusters
Flour dusters and seed dusters
Four flour dusters evenly dust flour onto the top and bottom of the dough band. To produce bread rolls that are seeded on both sides, these can simply be replaced with seed dusters.
Oscillating pressing paddles
Oscillating pressing paddles
The paddles gently adjust the dough to the desired width. This reduces the amount of edge trimmings and, consequently, your costs.
Dancer roller
Dancer roller
A consistent supply of dough is essential for producing an even dough band and final end products of precise weight. The dancer roller measures the thickness of the dough and automatically regulates the dough feed.
Satellite head
Satellite head
The unique satellite head gently sheets the dough. There is a setting that is just right for every type of dough you make.
Cross roller
Cross roller
The cross roller, with its large driven roller and programmable speed, gently forms the dough band to the exact width desired.
Calibrator
Calibrator
Depending on the final thickness required, one to three calibrators roll the dough band gently again to achieve the exact final thickness required. The Smartline then feeds it into the downstream make-up line. With a dough band width of 600 mm, it is the optimal match for the RONDO Polyline, Starline 5 or Cromaster as well as all other common lines.
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Technical data
Smartline
| recommended operating time | 24 h / 7 days a year |
| Dough band thickness | Min. 0.4 mm (with 3 calibrators) |
| Conveyor belt width | 640 mm |
| Roller gap | 0.2 – 30 mm |
| Satellite diameter | 320 mm |
| Sheeting speed | < up to 8 m/min |
Possible additional functions
| - remote maintenance |
| - end-to-end machine program management with master function |
Accessories
With RONDO accessories, you can adapt the Starline to your specific needs.
Supplementary machines
These machines are the perfect match for the Smartline. You can use them to automate additional steps in your production process.
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