Bimbo Bakeries India Case Study: Monitoring the Baking Process from Yeast Storage to Cooling
Bimbo Bakeries India makes sliced bread, buns, pavs and more under Harvest Gold, Modern and Kitty. Mindlabs Anchor monitors the steps that decide bread quality at its bakery plants (yeast storage, proofing, oven exit and cooling), with limits set for each step.
About Bimbo Bakeries India
Bimbo Bakeries India is the Indian business of Grupo Bimbo, which entered India in 2017 through Harvest Gold. It makes fresh bakery products at plants across the country, where the same recipe has to give the same loaf every day, at every plant.
What They Needed to Solve
Every step has a temperature window
Yeast has to be kept cold, dough has to proof warm and humid, bread has to leave the oven fully baked, and loaves have to cool before slicing and packing.
Small changes affect the loaf
A proofer that runs too cool or too dry, or bread packed before it has cooled, changes rise, texture and shelf life.
Same standard at every bakery
Its bakery plants work in very different climates but must produce the same product.
What Mindlabs Monitors
- 1
Yeast storage
- What we monitor
- Cold storage temperature
- Why it matters
- Yeast must be kept cold to stay active and consistent until it's used
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- Plant team by SMS and email when a reading leaves its limits; every reading time-stamped
- 2
Proofing
- What we monitor
- Proofer temperature and humidity
- Why it matters
- Proofing temperature and humidity control how the dough rises, which sets the loaf's volume and texture
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- Plant team by SMS and email when a reading leaves its limits; every reading time-stamped
- 3
Oven exit
- What we monitor
- Temperature of bread leaving the oven
- Why it matters
- Bread leaving the oven within this range confirms it has baked through
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- Plant team by SMS and email when a reading leaves its limits; every reading time-stamped
- 4
Cooling
- What we monitor
- Temperature after cooling, before slicing and packing
- Why it matters
- Bread packed while still warm traps moisture, which can cause condensation and shorten shelf life
- Device
- Mindlabs Anchor
- Who's alerted / what's recorded
- Plant team by SMS and email when a reading leaves its limits; every reading time-stamped
How It Helps Day to Day
Limits for every process step
Each proofer, oven exit, cooler and cold room has its own range.
Temperature and humidity in proofers
Both are tracked where dough rises.
Every bakery on one dashboard
All its bakery plants side by side.
Alerts to the plant team
SMS and email when a step leaves its range.
Works without site Wi-Fi
Data over 4G and 2G as well as Wi-Fi.
Records for every shift
PDF and CSV reports for quality reviews and FSSAI audits.
Results
Every key baking step has a continuous, time-stamped record.
Drift in a proofer, oven exit or cooler is visible on the dashboard as it happens.
Plants in different climates are held to the same process limits.
Devices Used
Mindlabs Anchor
Real-time wireless temperature and humidity data logger for proofers, coolers and cold rooms, with external probe support. 4G/2G/Wi-Fi, SMS and email alerts, IP67.
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