Today, QSR, retail and food service customers make rapidly changing demands: one day, they request fat-free portions, while the previous day, a bit of fat was acceptable. They may want weight and shape-controlled portions one day, and dimension-specific portions the next.

More possibilities than you ever imagined 

The DSI Waterjet Portioning System allows you to cut shaped portions and trim away fat. It is easy to quickly change applications with the push of a button. A DSI portioning system is sized to match your production needs. Its automated operation reduces labor, repetitive motion injuries, while ensuring consistent performance and enhancing food safety.

The DSI system can handle butterflies, fillets, tenderloins and deboned leg meat as input material, to turn into virtually any portion shape—ranging from steaks, strips, nuggets, cubes, and dices to creative forms like magnolias or dinosaurs.
With DSI waterjet cutting, you can precisely tailor products to meet unique consumer tastes across the globe, in Asia, Europe and America. Whether it's kakugiri for the Japanese market, minute steaks for Germany, or QSR nuggets for the USA, you can satisfy any local preference. When faced with complex or specific customer requirements, you can count on JBT Marel to collaborate with your team and find a solution that gives you a competitive advantage.

How does it work?

The DSI Waterjet Portioning System is a dual-lane, multi-cell water cutter, which is easily extendable. Every cell has two waterjets, one per lane.

First, the DSI Waterjet Portioning System scans your products to locate fat and to determine shape, thickness, weight, and many other attributes. Then, DSI Q-Link™ portioning software optimizes a cut strategy for each individual piece of raw product. Finally, the cutter goes to work: the computer-positioned high-pressure waterjets generate complex cutting shapes that make each piece as valuable as possible to maximize profits.

If you can sketch it, DSI can portion it

The DSI Waterjet Portioning System requires no positioning at the input. It accurately cuts all types of pieces of meat according to the programmed pattern, regardless of how it's placed on the belt. There are virtually no off-cuts—every piece, no matter how small, can be portioned into a useful and valuable product, resulting in an absolute minimal giveaway. 

Total solutions

When you're looking to maximize the value of your DSI Waterjet Portioning System, JBT Marel stands by your side. By integrating it seamlessly into your processing line, you can take full advantage of its capabilities.
Complementary solutions like the SmartSplitter and Multihead Weigher can be added to the line to automate both upstream and downstream processes—bringing greater efficiency and labor independence to your portioning workflow.

Deboned poultry meat going into the system passes through a DSI J-Scan, which creates a precise height map. This data is fed into Q-Link portioning software, which analyses the height map and generates a cut strategy depending on whatever the customer wants. The resulting XY and timing information is then sent to the cutters. This software ensures extremely precise, sub-millimeter accuracy.

JBT Marel offers a range of service solutions to prevent failures, maximize performance or in case of unexpected breakdowns remote or onsite assistance.

JBT Marel has offices in 30 countries across all regions, and a global network of highly skilled professionals that provide remote as well as onsite service support. We provide quality spare parts and customized service agreements for our customers to ensure optimal performance of JBT Marel equipment.