Key Technology introduces VERYX digital sorters for potato strips and specialty potato products. Featuring an innovative mechanical architecture, sustainable all-sided surface inspection, unique multi-sensor Pixel Fusion™, the highest resolution cameras and laser sensors on a digital sorter, intelligent ejection system and extreme ease-of-use, VERYX significantly improves detection performance and sorting accuracy.
Ideal for wet and frozen french fries and specialty potato products, VERYX sorters maximize foreign material (FM) and defect removal to enhance product quality while virtually eliminating false rejects to ensure maximum yield.
Featuring a customizable modular platform, Key tailors each VERYX system with the ideal sensors, sensor positions, lighting, separation/ejection system, product handling and software for each customer application. If future needs change, the sorter can easily be upgraded in the field with more sensors or different sensor types.
Ideal for wet potato products, VERYX offers in-air inspection and the ability to view all sides of the product to maximize defect detection and removal. Compared to on-belt sorters in which belt sanitation issues can interfere with sensor detection, VERYX in-air inspection ensures perfect inspection consistency. All-sided surface inspection with no blind spots is sustained throughout the production cycle, because the all-new VERYX design architecture positions sensor surfaces, light sources and backgrounds strategically away from product splatter and contamination zones.
For sorting frozen potato products prior to packaging, Key’s advanced Pixel Fusion detection module provides the highest level of contrast and clear separation between good product, defects and FM. Pixel Fusion synchronizes and combines channel input from multiple camera and laser sensors at the pixel level. Digital information from this unique inspection technique allows VERYX to reliably sort even difficult-to-detect defects and FM such as glass, metal, rubber, paperboard, foam and plastics of different colors.
