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.

In the baking and snack food industry,

consumers have a greater variety of products to choose from, and a keychallenge for producers is achieving andmaintaining exceptional product qualitythat will drive new sales and generateloyal customers.

“Improve product quality, boost yield, increase inline productivity and lower production costs with automated vision inspection technology”

For baked goods, product appearanceis critical to consumer acceptance. Size,shape, colour, and texture are just some ofproperties that make baked goods appealingand secure market share. Traditionalmethods for quality control include manualinspection, physical measurements, colourmeters and comparison to reference charts.These manual methods are slow, labourintensive, and often yield subjective results.

AUTOMATED QUALITY CONTROL

New vision analysis technology can

automate these measurements, providing objective reliable results in real time for 100% inspection. Since 2009, Sightline Process Control, a KPM Analytics brand, has been providing some of the world’s largest food manufacturers with 3D/ colour vision inspection and automation solutions that improve product quality, boost yield, increase line productivity, and reduce operating costs.

Sightline’s customisable systems can extract virtually any size, shape or colour attribute from product images captured at full line speed—converting them into standard units for analysis against compliance specifications and automatically rejecting nonconforming products.

All Sightline systems come with a measurement library including over 100 basic and advanced algorithms to measure

parameters such as length andwidth, area, shape, colour, volumeand slopes, thickness, inclusions,and foreign objects. Measurementscan be combined to provide a

comprehensive quality controltest for each product with predeterminedlimits for pass/fail.

Sightline Vision InspectionSystems are available in bench topmodels for at-line or lab analysis,as well as over-line and in-linemodels for 100% inspection (and rejection)of products up to 100 objects per second.Sightline’s proprietary measura softwaresuite supports each system and providescomplete configuration, inspection,monitoring and reporting capabilities withinevery production facility.

“Analytical Solutions are the authoriseddistributers of the KPM Sightline VisualInspection System and we also offer a widerange of products specifically for the Food,Feed, and Beverage industries, from rawproducts monitoring to final packaginginspection,” concludes sales managerMarius Janse van Rensburg. •

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