How to sort candy with precision by color, shape, etc.?
Candy is all about emotions; it’s something we instinctively associate with birthdays, holidays, and joyful moments. That positive vibe is crucial for consumers. As a candy manufacturer, you want to make sure every piece reflects that feeling; free from defects, and absolutely free from foreign materials like plastic or wood. This can seriously damage your reputation and turn the positive feeling associated with candy upside down.
Moreover, the rules on food safety are being tightened worldwide. It’s no different for candy, which is an extremely competitive market. In addition, the field of nutraceuticals and food supplements is gaining popularity, which introduces new requirements and criteria that differ from traditional candy production.
It’s clear: compromising on quality is not an option. To simultaneously maintain your profitability, it’s crucial to optimize your sorting process, among other things. Our goal is to detect as many foreign materials and defects as possible without unnecessarily excluding good candy. The result? A perfect blend of sustainable business practices, high yields, and optimal profitability.
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Our sorting machines for candy
Novus
Discover what true sorting precision looks like with Novus: our most flexible belt sorter. Using smart camera, laser, and metal detection technology, this machine gives you full control over your product flow. From color and shape to texture and even biological or magnetic characteristics, every product is examined and sorted with exceptional precision.
Ventus
Get to the very core of your product with Ventus: our most efficient laser sorter. With its dual free-fall system and ultra-precise lasers, Ventus spots even the slightest imperfections in a flash. It delivers consistently accurate sorting and an exceptional yield, making it the trusted choice for businesses that demand nothing less than top-tier quality.
Technology made to fit your needs
With Optimum Sorting’s premium range of sorters for the food industry, you can count on reliability and superior service. Our advanced technology guarantees optimal performance, making your sorting process smooth and efficient. Whether it’s jelly, half foam, foam, licorice, or hard candy, our sorters provides the perfect solution for a crucial step in your production process. Tailored for the confectionery industry, our optical sorting machines are already installed at more than 70 sites around the globe.
The Novus, our most versatile sorter, uses a sophisticated combination of advanced high-resolution cameras and multidimensional image processing to accurately detect color and shape deviations. Moreover, because of its flexibility, you can use one single machine to recognize dozens of types of candy and process them one after another, simply by adjusting the sorting software with a few clicks. Additionally, its smart, specialized algorithms for shape recognition make it possible to accurately detect foreign objects.
Just like our other sorting systems, the Novus easily adapts to the desired quality specifications. The controlled, vibrating feed with sieve ensures that the products to be sorted are better distributed, allowing them to be analyzed more accurately and reducing the risk of false rejections. Moreover, our DRS mode (Defect Return System) allows you to re-sort the initial sorted defects a second time. This ensures an exceptionally detailed analysis with a next to zero loss of good product.
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Built for optimal sorting
Pinpoint imperfections with accuracy
Most image processing algorithms reduce the RGBi signal of a color camera from four to two dimensions, resulting in loss of valuable information. We make sure all signals, both from the cameras and from the different lasers, are interpreted simultaneously by means of our algorithms, resulting in a more accurate detection of foreign objects and defects, plus a lower risk of false detections.
Remove defects with precision
Precise defect detection is meaningless without an equally precise ejection system. Our air valves have a center-to-center distance of 7.5 mm (0.29 in), compared to the standard 10 mm (0.39 in). This means more valves can blow more effectively, enhancing ejection accuracy. Additionally, we offer a high-resolution valve system with a center-to-center distance of 5.25 mm (0.21 in) for specific applications.
Fine-tune with detailed data
Why not use the data recorded by the cameras to adjust your sorting process where necessary? An optional module filters this data to parameters of your choice (length-width ratio, shape, color, defect level, etc.) and makes them available to your operators in a clear numerical or graphical way, so that they can intervene if desired.
Exceptional user-friendliness
Quick and easy calibration
Establishing acceptance thresholds can be a lengthy and complicated process. But with the systems of Optimum Sorting, it’s different. Your operators don’t have to deal with graphs or formulas. Our machines are able to calibrate themselves by using images of acceptable and unacceptable products.
Intuitive interface
Operating our sorting machines is incredibly simple, thanks to our user-friendly and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). This interface is designed to ensure that your operators can effortlessly access and view all relevant information at a glance, making the entire sorting process smooth and efficient.
Remote control
Do you want to operate your sorting machines centrally? No problem. Our solutions can be easily integrated into your network, so your operators and supervisors can keep an eye on things from any network computer.
