What equipments are needed for ice cream factory production line

What equipments are needed for ice cream factory production line? Generally speaking we can say ice cream machines, or ice cream machinery, but acctrually it should be many different machines for making ice cream.

According to the functional classification of the equipment, it can be divided into mixing sterilization, homogenization, aging, chiller, CIP cleaning, freezing, fruit feeder, ice cream making, packaging, etc. According to the product process classification, it can be divided into molded ice cream equipments, ice cream extrusion equipments, ice cream filling equipments, etc. According to the automation level, it can be divided into manual equipments, semi-automatic equipments, and fully automatic equipments.

Details as follows:
1. Classification according to function
According to the functional classification, it is mainly divided into mixing sterilization, homogenization, aging, chiller, CIP cleaning, freezing, fruit feeder, ice cream making, packaging and etc. Mixing and sterilization equipments are mainly used for mixing and sterilizing ice cream ingredients. Homogenizing equipment is used to forcefully disperse materials that are not easy to dissolve in the mixing part and cannot be uniformly stirred. The aging tank is used for aging the ice cream ingredients for several hours under certain low temperature conditions. The chiller is used to provide ice water, sterilize the front-stage mixing and cool down the equipment such as aging. CIP cleaning equipment is used to clean the inner surface of pipelines, containers, process equipment, filters and related accessories online. Continuous freezer is used to freeze and scrape the cooled ice cream ingredient mixture, entraining the mixture with air bubbles and changing the ice cream from liquid to semi-solid. The ingredient feeder is used to add fruit pieces, dried fruit pieces, biscuit pieces, chocolate crumbs, etc. into ice cream. Ice cream making equipments are used to make ice cream ingredients into various shaped ice cream products. Packaging equipment is used to package ice cream products.
2. Classification according to product process
According to the product process classification, it is mainly divided into molded ice cream equipments, ice cream extrusion equipments, ice cream filling equipments and etc. Molded ice cream equipments are used to produce molded ice cream products, such as popsicles. Ice cream extrusion equipments are used to produce sliced ice cream products with many different design, such as funny face ice cream, sandwich ice cream, cake ice cream, etc. Ice cream filling equipments are used to produce cone ice cream, cup ice cream, tube ice cream, family pack ice cream, etc.
3. Classification according to automation level
According to the automation level, it is mainly divided into manual equipments, semi-automatic equipments, and fully automatic equipments. Manual equipments are fully manually operated equipments. Semi-automatic equipments are a combination of manual and automatic operations. Fully automatic equipments are equipments that operates automatically. Surely Robot ice cream machine already start working in many advanced technology ice cream factory.