The SiftAI Robotic Sorter uses cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) models to analyze products on a rolling table, triggering robotic arms to remove unacceptable items at rates of up to 80-100 picks per minute (with two-robot systems). Ideally suited for high-throughput fresh pack potato processors, it reviews all sides of potatoes, performing all functions of a human grader without subjectivity, resulting in fewer mistakes, reduced chargebacks, and significant labor savings.
Redistribute Labor & Enhance Potato Grading Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence
Benefits
- 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
Features
- Discard unacceptable potatoes at rates up to 80-100 picks per minute (with two-robot configurations).
- Programmed with robust AI models to automatically classify products for user-defined traits.
- Robust, intuitive software.
Unmatched Defect Detection
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
- And more...
How It Works
AI-Powered Vision Inspection & Automation
The SiftAI Robotic Sorter is a first-of-its-kind potato grader that combines an AI-based vision inspection system with a delta robot. Each system is programmed with AI models for overall potato size and shape or presence of defects like bruises, cracks, %green, and other cosmetic features. Should any potato fall outside of the AI model’s acceptance criteria, the system triggers the robotic arm to pick up and remove the potato from the process stream.
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Proven AI Models to Ensure System Accuracy
Over time, the SiftAI Robotic Sorter “learns” to focus on products on the conveyor and detect visible defects across the entire product, while also applying AI models to determine whether the product meets the specified size. Each user can adjust defect and size tolerances instantly from the SiftAI Robotic Sorter Software.
1) The SiftAI® camera takes a picture of product on a rolling table.
2) The AI system separates the product from the rolling table.
3) The AI then scans the product for presence of defects based on the AI Model criteria. From there, it automatically calculates the defect percentage and determines next steps (let the product proceed or reject it from the product flow).
End-to-end Quality Assurance
Command Quality & Food Safety Throughout Your Process
From pre-sorting to downstream sorting, sizing, and grading, through final product inspection, SiftAI® offers comprehensive and automated quality control that allows processors to achieve higher throughput with superior accuracy and reduced labor.
Intuitive, Powerful Software
The user interface is intuitive, and operators can monitor production lines in real time and provide analysis or health check reports.
Constant System Monitoring, Constant System Improving from KPM Analytics' AI Experts
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, label and categorize foreign material, and provide analysis or health check reports. APIs also exist for gathering analytics data and quality metrics to load into an ERP, offering users valuable insights into their overall process.
The Software as a Service (SaaS) is a yearly subscription service that includes regular software updates and AI model augmentation, providing you with the most up-to-date technology for high accuracy and precision. KPM Analytics can access the system to send updates and allow 24/7 support should any issues arise.
TensorUP®: Amplify AI Capability and Productivity
TensorUP® is a high-performance computing device designed to enhance AI capabilities of the SiftAI® Robotic Sorter. It can be used to add compute capacity and perform AI model inference significantly faster than previous generations, strengthening the effectiveness and accuracy of the Robotic sorting system.
- Makes inspection decisions up to 700 times faster than the most robust SiftAI® hardware.
- Runs on SiftAI® software, allowing it to operate the same AI models already deployed by the user.
- TensorUP® can also run larger AI models (resolutions from 1024x1024 to 2048x2048), allowing the AI to detect smaller and more complex features and foreign materials.
- Allows for the capture and use of more images for each potato.
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