FUNCTIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT INGREDIENTS
Visualise a new standard for quality control
Estimated at up to $10tr per year, the global food market is a major part of the world economy and represents a significant part of personal expenses.
I
n the baking and snack food industry,
parameters such as length and
consumers have a greater variety of
width, area, shape, colour, volume
products to choose from, and a key
and slopes, thickness, inclusions,
challenge for producers is achieving and
and foreign objects. Measurements
maintaining exceptional product quality
can be combined to provide a
that will drive new sales and generate
comprehensive quality control
loyal customers.
test for each product with pre-
“Improve product quality, boost yield, increase inline productivity and lower production costs with automated vision inspection technology” For baked goods, product appearance is critical to consumer acceptance. Size, shape, colour, and texture are just some of
determined limits for pass/fail. Sightline Vision Inspection Systems are available in bench top models for at-line or lab analysis, automate these measurements, providing
as well as over-line and in-line
objective reliable results in real time for
models for 100% inspection (and rejection)
100% inspection. Since 2009, Sightline
of products up to 100 objects per second.
Process Control, a KPM Analytics brand,
Sightline’s proprietary measura software
has been providing some of the world’s
suite supports each system and provides
largest food manufacturers with 3D/ colour
complete configuration, inspection,
vision inspection and automation solutions
monitoring and reporting capabilities within
that improve product quality, boost yield,
every production facility.
increase line productivity, and reduce operating costs.
“Analytical Solutions are the authorised distributers of the KPM Sightline Visual
Sightline’s customisable systems
Inspection System and we also offer a wide
properties that make baked goods appealing
can extract virtually any size, shape or
range of products specifically for the Food,
and secure market share. Traditional
colour attribute from product images
Feed, and Beverage industries, from raw
methods for quality control include manual
captured at full line speed—converting
products monitoring to final packaging
inspection, physical measurements, colour
them into standard units for analysis
inspection,” concludes sales manager
meters and comparison to reference charts.
against compliance specifications and
Marius Janse van Rensburg. •
These manual methods are slow, labour
automatically rejecting non-
intensive, and often yield subjective results.
conforming products.
AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL
measurement library including over 100
New vision analysis technology can
basic and advanced algorithms to measure
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June 2021 | FOOD RE VIEW
All Sightline systems come with a
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