The SiftAI® Smart Table is an all-in-one inspection solution for potato processors to automatically sort, grade, size, and detect unwanted foreign materials with little to no human intervention. Each system is trained with artificial intelligence (AI) models to analyze product attributes at high volumes, accurately routing and sorting products on user-defined criteria. As a turnkey solution, each SiftAI® Smart Table is customized to meet the exact customer specifications.
SiftAI® Smart Table safeguards against harmful foreign materials (FM) that can potentially damage equipment, prompt fines from customers, or introduce allergens into final products.
Features
- Designed to handle high product volumes (e.g., 180,000 lbs of potatoes per hour).
- Programmed with robust AI models to automatically classify products for user-defined traits.
- Custom-configured systems that are easily scalable as needs change.
- Robust, intuitive software. All manufactured components are from a single supplier.
Benefits
- Labor savings: Reduce and redistribute labor where needed at your facility.
- Unmatched accuracy: Removes subjectivity from sorting and grading procedures.
- Improved throughput: Allows processors to operate at higher capacities.
- Improved food safety: Eliminate foreign materials from the entire process flow.
- Superior process control: Real-time analysis and record keeping aid in business decisions and vetting of suppliers.
Applications
- Chip Potatoes: Automatically identify and remove harmful foreign materials and objects that can lead to costly food safety hazards and customer fines.
- Process Potatoes: Identify and remove harmful foreign materials and objects while establishing acceptance tolerances for product defects and cosmetic traits that are important to customers.
- Fresh Pack Potatoes: Remove foreign objects and materials that can damage equipment and hamper process flow, while also ensuring customers receive top-quality potatoes.
How It Works
The SiftAI® Smart Table is equipped with specific AI models trained to identify foreign and unwanted indigenous materials or calculate the size, shape, presence of defects, or any other product qualities that can be perceived by a human sorter. These models are continually refined and retrained over time. With the power of AI, potato processors have a solution to analyze various attributes with remarkable precision, allowing companies to operate at greater capacities and redistribute labor where it is needed most.
The SiftAI® Smart Table automatically scans products as they pass through individual lanes. Products are continuously tumbling on the roller belt, allowing the system to capture a complete view of the product.
Defect Detection: Based the product feature’s rejection fingers at the system’s dropping point will direct products with defects to a particular stream. If the product meets all the ideal visual criteria, it continues to drop onward to later process stages.
Foreign Material Detection: Foreign material detection follows a similar process to defect detection. Equipped with AI models for foreign materials (sticks, rocks, golf balls, wood, plastic, and many others) the SiftAI® Smart Table scans the conveyor for objects different from the target product. This includes foreign objects of similar color and texture.
SiftAI® Smart Table - AI-Powered Vision Inspection & Automation
SiftAI® Smart Table for Potatoes
Most vision systems can’t handle products with mass variations. SiftAI's advanced technology accounts for natural variations in your products with unrivalled precision, effectively discerning between defected and viable products. Defects in potatoes, for example, that we can find include:
- Green
- Growth Crack
- Misshapen (banana, heart, knob, pear, and other)
- Mud
- Sprouts
- New Bruise
- Old Bruise
- Pressure Bruise
- Rhizoct
- Rot
- Frozen
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SiftAI Smart Table - AI-Driven Foreign Material Detection & Quality Sorting for Potato Processors
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KPM Analytics - SiftAI® Smart Table Specifications
