High-Performance Digital Sorting Platform

Key Technology introduces the Veryx digital sorting platform, a suite of belt-fed and chute-fed sorters that offer high-performance capabilities and share a common user interface.

With full object surface coverage, multi-sensor data fusion, and high-resolution cameras and laser sensors, Veryx achieves new levels of detection and discrimination of foreign material (FM) and product defects. Advanced auto-learn, self-adjusting capabilities, and recipe-driven operation offer ease-of-use and an intuitive user experience. Veryx improves product quality and maximizes yields.
 
“The platform will include widths ranging from 700 to 2100mm for belt-fed and 700 to 1400mm for chute-fed configurations and combines an innovative new mechanical architecture with intelligent decision making to maintain optimal performance through the entire production cycle. Veryx minimizes the need for operator interaction with the machine and establishes new standards of performance to offer exceptional customer value.” said Louis Vintro, senior vice president new products & business development. “Veryx complements our existing family of digital sorting systems allowing us to choose the optimal sorting solution for our customers’ specific needs.”
 
Every Veryx sorter is configured around the product characteristics, application requirements, and process objectives of each customer. The platform includes belt-fed sorters as well as chute sorters fed by Key’s patented Chycane chute system. Available in a range of product inspection widths, Veryx satisfies small to very large production capacity requirements.
 
For food processors requiring true, full-product surface inspection of each object, Key can configure Veryx sorters with sensor arrangements that eliminate blind spots to maximize FM and defect removal. On belt-fed systems, the bottom cameras are positioned away from product splatter to ensure the lower sensor windows are not obstructed by buildup over time. Eliminating this previously common performance degradation factor keeps bottom cameras continually operating at peak performance and makes Veryx the first sorter to offer sustained 100 percent surface inspection throughout the production cycle.
 
Multi-sensor fusion at the pixel level integrates the input from multiple cameras and lasers in relation to each image pixel. Fusing sensor data at a pixel level maximizes the signal contrast for enhanced differentiation between good and bad objects to more accurately identify and remove subtle product defects and challenging FM types.
 
Next-generation cameras and laser sensors offer twice the resolution capability of previous generation sorters to detect and remove the smallest defects and FM. With up to four channels of information from cameras and up to eight channels of information from the laser scanner, combined with advanced LED lighting that operates at optimal frequencies in relation to each sensor, Key customizes every sorter to match the customer’s requirements, from basic to the most complex. The new product separation/ejection system is also tailored to each product application, with the distance between nozzles and the power of the valves varying for optimal management of the sort streams.
 
Veryx’s modular design enables food processors to easily upgrade their sorter in the field with the addition of more or different cameras, lasers or BioPrint hyperspectral sensor technology, as customer requirements evolve over time.
 
Key Technology Inc., Walla Walla, WA 509-529-2161 www.key.net

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