The TOMRA Transformation Journey
SORTING UNWASHED POTATOES: WORKING PRINCIPLE
The product is spread uniformly onto the infeed belt and
will be scanned by cameras in the different inspection
zones. A few milliseconds later one type of material will
be rejected by intelligent finger ejectors, positioned at
the end of the conveyor belt, while the good products
continue their way along the sorting line.
Infeed (unsorted)
B Full width NIR and Color
Vision sensors
C Intelligent finger ejectors
DGentle handling convey
chutes (optional)
B
INFEED (UNSORTED)
ACCEPT
D
TRASH
DEFECTS & BLEMISHES REPORTING
Dirt Clod
Rot
Stones
Golf Ball
Reports can be generated with the following data:
Product Data
+ Average Length & Width mm(ins)
+ Length and Width distribution (size bins) mm(ins)
+ Total potato count #
+ Total reject count #
+ Stone, soil clod, rot, other %
Sorter Operation Data
+ Belt speed, average belt fill %
+ Object counts/second
+ Program running
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The Field Potato Sorter is ODENBERG's first venture
into the unwashed potato market
The machine uses unique near infra-red technology
to remove soil clods, stones and rotten potatoes, in
addition to the foreign material commonly found in
fields such as golf balls, plastics, wood etc
The FPS sorter should be used after a soil remover
and is designed to fit existing grading equipment or
be used as a standalone unit and can operate on
harvested potato crop before and after storage
The system also provides online potato size data for
logging, plus sorter operating information
TOMRA
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