DESCRIZIONE
This invention relates to a flowline system (100) for processing food products (401). A feeding conveyor (101) is provided for conveying the food products to be processed, a plurality of workstations (102) are arranged along the feeding conveyor, a diverting means (105) are associated with each of the plurality of workstations for diverting food products from the feeding conveyor to the workstations, and a takeaway conveyor (108) assembly is provided, wherein each workstation comprises a release mechanism (109) configured to receive a food product after being processed and to transfer the processed food product onto the takeaway conveyor assembly, and where a control unit (107) is provided to allocate a slot length on the takeaway conveyor assembly in accordance to a length of the processed food product.