ࡱ> ')& bjbj .jj lffff r }$ bbbb}b}bb 1}~ pdf I}0Q,dd}bTechnology transfer providing exciting new quality sorting system for carrots born from a proven vision system Dr Hartmut Gall Dr Lawrence Defty and other key members of Herberts Research & Development team in the Europe and US have successfully made the technology transfer of electronic grading potatoes to carrots. The project has taken 18 months and has culminated in rigorous testing in a commercial process for four months where labour at times was reduced from six full time produce inspectors to one part-time machine operator. Herbert Engineering, UKs leading vegetable handling company is delighted with the results and is now speaking to key companies in the carrot industry about potential applications on their sites. The Carrot Autosort has great potential for packers and processors, as it is able to separate carrots into class and size depending on a specific customers packing requirements. Amazing results have been achieved with the machine capable of sorting on length, diameter and defect. It comfortably detects defects such as white colour, dark spots, green, cuts, broken tips and rots. Capacities of approx. 3-6 tph depending on carrot size have been achieved whilst providing classification into 3 qualities This enables grading into class 1, waste and another grade which may be class 2 or may be a special size / grade. The 3rd classification provides an opportunity to add value to the product or just to generate a lower value product without needing to re-grade the waste. It may be easily configured to be a super quality or a special size. All of this is done using proven technology transferred from the existing range of quality sorting machines for potatoes in operation throughout Europe. The Herbert machine utilises the proven system of rotating the carrots under colour cameras while taking a number of pictures. This provides a group of pictures representing the whole of the carrot surface and allows more accurate grading. Special software uses colour, shape analysis and pattern recognition to classify the carrots into the desired grades. Key features to providing high capacity sorting are custom software that avoids the necessity to have the crop divided into lanes and the simple transport system. One application evaluated during trials was the recovery of commercial quantities of carrot for processing and Class II packing from the waste / stockfeed output of Class I packing, this was accomplished with zero human inspection. The yield of usable carrot was much higher than with a manual sorting system. RJ Herbert Engineering continues to move forward with its Quality Sorting Systems. This development now offers the efficiency and added value opportunities from Herbert Vision systems to the Carrot Industry. opQ S B*H*OJQJ^JaJphB*OJQJ^JaJph5\5B*\phfop 2 3 ,1h. A!"#$%  i8@8 NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH <A@< Default Paragraph FontDQ@D Body Text 3B*OJQJ^JaJph op23  @0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0@0  i r  oo1134>?cfnn   Jo HerbertC:\Documents and Settings\JHERBERT.RJHERBERT\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\AutoRecovery save of ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.asd Jo HerbertC:\Documents and Settings\JHERBERT.RJHERBERT\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\AutoRecovery save of ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.asd Jo Herbert[S:\Sales\Quotations\Office\Sales\Marketing\Press Releases\ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.docDeftywC:\Documents and Settings\ldefty\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\AutoRecovery save of ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.asdDeftyJC:\Documents and Settings\ldefty\Desktop\ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.docDeftyJC:\Documents and Settings\ldefty\Desktop\ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.docDeftyJC:\Documents and Settings\ldefty\Desktop\ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.docDeftyJC:\Documents and Settings\ldefty\Desktop\ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT.doc Jo HerbertiS:\Sales\Quotations\Office\Sales\Marketing\Press Releases\Carrot_Autosort_Produce_News_MayJune2006_FV.doc Max HubbleH:\Audio_Visual\Website_Under_Development\Main_Structure\News_and_Events\Press_Releases\Carrot_Autosort_Produce_News_MayJune2006_FV.doc}}}^`o(.^`.pLp^p`L.@ @ ^@ `.^`.L^`L.^`.^`.PLP^P`L.}}         @ P@UnknownGz Times New Roman5Symbol3& z Arial"qh󚴆󚴆RF!r0d 2qARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT& & Jo Herbert Max HubbleOh+'0 (4 P \ h t ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORTRTI Jo HerbertUo Ho H Normal.dotU Max HubbleU2x Microsoft Word 9.0T@@b@p@p՜.+,0$ hp  R.J. Herbert Engineering LtdT   ARTICLE ABOUT CARROT AUTOSORT Title  !"#$%(Root Entry F0p*1Table dWordDocument.SummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8CompObjjObjectPool0p0p  FMicrosoft Word Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q