Key Technology introduces Global View™, a patented new software-driven capability for their VERYX® digital sorters. Global View combines product data collected from multiple sensors with different vantage points around the product stream and enables the sorter to consider each object in its entirety when making classification and sort decisions. This unique software optimizes product quality, increases yield, collects more sophisticated data and reduces manual inspection.
“Without Global View, the sorter analyzes information from each sensor view independently, thereby relying on knowledge about a single side of an object to make an accept or reject decision. With Global View, multiple views of the same object are stitched together, and the accept or reject decision is based on information about the entire object,” explained Stephan Westcott, Global Automated Inspection System product manager at Key. “This allows us to recognize defects based on an analysis of the total, multi-sided surface area of an object. Food sorting teicneolaíocht has struggled to control these types of defects until now. It’s very exciting and creates new possibilities for quality control.”
Global View applies a sorter’s ‘classification logic’ to the combined object data from more than one view to better remove defects, make grade and/or collect more complete data about food products. Combining data from multiple cameras, lasers or hyperspectral sensors with different perspectives, defects can be defined by color, size, shape, structural properties and/or chemical composition, depending on the sensor types and the needs of the processor. By considering the total surface area of an object and, when needed, determining the ratio of defects or other characteristics to that surface area, Global View introduces a new way to manage product quality. The handling of foreign material (FM) remains unchanged – the sorter targets all FM for removal, as always.
Chomh maith le cuidiú le sórtálaí cinntí níos cliste a ghlacadh / a dhiúltú, is féidir leas a bhaint as Global View chun sonraí luachmhara a bhailiú bunaithe ar dhromchla iomlán gach ruda. Feistithe le bogearraí Key's Information Analytics, is féidir leis an sórtálaí sonraí a bhailiú faoin bpróiseas sórtála agus faoi gach réad a shníonn tríd, cibé an n-úsáidtear na sonraí chun cinntí sórtála a dhéanamh nó nach bhfuil. I gcás roinnt feidhmchlár, cuireann Global View luach le Analytics Faisnéise trí phatrúin, treochtaí agus comhlachais nua a nochtadh.