Revolutionize Potato Sorting with AI: Introducing the SiftAI® Robotic Sorter

Given the daily demands you face from customers, maintaining final potato grading precision and efficiency has never been more critical. Even when sheds are adequately staffed, defects still reach customers, or acceptable potatoes are wasted. Now, an AI-driven robotic sorter is available to automate final product inspection, ensuring accurate grading, increasing profits, and allowing managers to deploy workers to other tasks.

The SiftAI Robotic Sorter is a potato processor's solution to boost final product grading and sizing accuracy, speed, and efficiency while allowing companies to redistribute labor where needed. It incorporates cameras that analyze products on a rolling table and applies artificial intelligence (AI) models to validate their visual traits.

Based on its findings, the AI technology triggers robotic sorting arms to remove unacceptable products at rates between 80 and 100 picks per minute (with two-robot systems).

The SiftAI Robotic Sorter offers several benefits to potato processors of all kinds, including:

• Labor savings: Reduce and redistribute labor where needed at your facility.
• Reduced chargebacks: Ensure your customers receive potatoes that meet their quality and sizing criteria.
• Unmatched accuracy: Removes subjectivity from sorting and grading procedures.
• Improved throughput: Allows processors to operate at higher capacities.
• Superior process control: Real-time analysis and record keeping aid in business decisions and vetting of suppliers.

SiftAI Robotic Sorter

Proven AI Models Ensure System Performance

Each SiftAI® Robotic Sorter is equipped with AI models to detect specific defects and features of products passing through a conveyor system. Over time, the system "learns" to focus on products on the conveyor and detect visible defects across the entire product. The system also applies AI models to determine whether the product meets the specified size. Each user can adjust defect and size tolerances on the fly from the SiftAI Robotic Sorter Software.

 

Example of product being sorted by the SiftAI Robotic Sorter

How does the SiftAI® Robotic Sorter Work?

Each SiftAI Robotic Sorter is programmed with AI models for overall potato size and shape or defects like bruises, cracks, %green, and other cosmetic features. Should any potato fall outside the AI model's acceptance criteria, the system triggers the robotic arm to pick up and remove the potato from the process stream.

Powerful Insights from an Intuitive Software

SiftAI® Robotic Sorter systems are paired with powerful software to continuously monitor your production process and provide data for operations and reporting. The user interface is intuitive, and operators can monitor production lines in real-time and provide analysis or health check reports.

Data analysis screen from SiftAI Robotic Sorter’s software