Patent ID: 8892239

Claim:
A method for cutting a food product into slices for producing portions by taking into account the target weight thereof, wherein several food products are successively fed on a conveyor to a cutting device so as to cut the conveyed food product into slices, the method comprising: obtaining data about a cut surface of the food product to be cut during the slicing by a camera; evaluating the data of the cut surface by a controller connected to the camera so as to vary, on the basis of the data, the thickness of the slice to be cut off during the slicing of the food product by controlling corresponding actuators; detecting a remainder of a first food product that is insufficient to cut off a portion having the target weight therefrom, wherein the remainder is supplied as an input signal to the controller and is taken into account by the controller for controlling corresponding actuators during the cutting of at least a next food product to minimize a new remainder; and creating a cutting plan at least for the next food product to be sliced, on the basis of which the at least next food product can be sliced into a plurality of portions having the target weight, wherein the remainder of the first preceding sliced food product is taken into account for creating the cutting plan of the at least next food product, while minimizing the remainder of the at least next food product.