Bakehouse Work Orders

There is a frequent reoccurring hole in the side seal. The hole is on the side seal, about an inch from the far right side of the side seal. The size of the hole varies depending on the settings on the machine. Changing the bag length, height, width, blade height, blade temperature, and dwell time did not reduce how often the hole appeared. We cleaned the blade as best we could with the abrasive pad. We tried every variation of settings we could think of. The hole appears when using both large and small film. The hole appears less often on large and rectangular items, but much more often on small coffee cakes. The hole is visible before the item enters the heat tunnel. Sometimes the plastic around the hole appears to be slightly bunched up, but not always. Sometimes the entire side seam will be weaker and will immediately tear open when it enters the heat tunnel, but that seems less frequent. Hole started appearing after the wires on the heating element were repaired, but worsened massively the following day.