Automating Dishwasher Care

Letting Your Dishwasher Do More for You

Today’s commercial dishwashers can do so much more than comparable dishmachines did even just a decade ago. Keeping them up and running and operating at peak performance ensures your foodservice operation realizes all the benefits of these machines have to offer, and protects you against costly downtime. 

New dishmachine technologies help automate common tasks that keep your team and your machine operating at peak performance, and also help you quickly address issues that could lead to unscheduled downtime.

Easier Pre-scrapping Saves Labor

Pre-scrapping is one of the more tedious and labor-intensive jobs in the dishwashing process, since larger particles of food and debris must be manually removed. But here’s where Hobart’s Automatic Soil Removal (ASR) technology takes over. It filters and removes heavy food soils during the wash cycle. More food soil can go into the machine, which means staff can spend less time trying to get food soil off ware.  This can reduce the time spent pre-scrapping by up to 20%. 

ASR actively pumps food soils out of the wash tank, which means wash water stays cleaner for a longer amount of time. That can reduce water wash tank changes by as much as 50%, which leads to less machine cleaning and wash water changes, for less dishmachine downtime throughout each day.

A Better Way to Delime

The basic process of dishwashing — running hard water through the dishmachine at high temperatures —leads to minerals precipitating out of the water and building up on surfaces inside the machine, including inside the booster. Incomplete deliming can lead to decreased machine efficiency, or even failure of machine parts, as well as poor wash results and spotting on glasses or other dishware.

Whatever the hardness level of your water may be, complete and regular deliming is important to keep the machine running well. Technology helps here, too, in the form of Hobart’s Complete Delime™ with Booster Guard™ which notifies operators when it’s the right time to delime. Once operators acknowledge the notification, delimer is automatically dispensed into the machine, including into the booster.  This prevents overdosing delimer chemical, protects the operator from splash out, and helps ensure the machine is fully delimed, which gives you the best wash results and decreases the chances of unscheduled downtime.  

Faster Maintenance, More Uptime

From minor issues to impending part failures, not knowing what’s happening inside your machine can lead to unscheduled downtime, causing big headaches for your operation and service to your customer. New controls on Hobart dishmachines monitor a variety of machine parameters and functions, and give you alerts and basic troubleshooting when something is not behaving as it should. This gives your team the chance to have preventative maintenance performed before an issue occurs, or if there is an issue, helps with faster diagnosis and repair. A machine that “tells on itself” keeps you up and running for longer periods of time.

Working Smarter

Knowing right away when your dishwasher needs attention is key to resolving issues fast, and the Hobart SmartConnect app available on new Hobart dishmachine models can send you alerts for a “heads-up” on any issues or critical errors. These alerts give you basic troubleshooting information so you can resolve the issue yourself and the alerts can be sent to Hobart Service for faster repairs if a service call is required.

Tracking temperatures on a clipboard is a nuisance, and the SmartConnect app automates this as well by tracking and logging wash and rinse temperatures throughout the day, that can then be emailed and shared with an inspector.

Hobart SmartConnect also tracks the number of cycles ran, when the machine is cleaned and delimed,  and the amount of water energy consumed. This gives managers and operators a chance to see how the machine behaves and adjust dishroom procedures to get the best performance and productivity out of their dishroom. 

New technologies on Hobart dishmachines, combined with the SmartConnect app, give foodservice operations assurance their machines are running at maximum performance with maximum uptime. It’s just one more way that Hobart is leveraging technology to make dishrooms work better.