Optical sorter for coffee beans
Achieve precise color differentiation and advanced foreign matter detection, optimizing your sorting performance with cutting-edge technology designed to streamline your production process.
Detects Defects and Increases Product Yield
The SORTEX H SpectraVision Optical Sorter from Bühler Group revolutionizes how food processors and grain mills tackle defect detection and foreign matter removal in continuous, high-speed operations. Leveraging in-house developed full-color and InGaAs cameras, this sorter achieves unmatched color differentiation and foreign matter detection, essential for processing coffee beans, nuts, pulses, wheat, and rye. Engineered for automated efficiency, it supports integration with Industry 4.0 standards, allowing remote performance monitoring and easy machine setup through Bühler Insights. Offering up to 50% higher reject concentrations, its advanced ejection and calibration algorithms ensure product yield improvement and consistency across batches. The system is designed for diverse operational conditions and solid, granular products, supporting high throughput with minimal maintenance.
Benefits
- Enhances product purity with precise defect and foreign matter detection.
- Boosts yield by minimizing false rejects through intelligent ejection algorithms.
- Facilitates remote monitoring and adjustments, aligning with Industry 4.0 for operational efficiency.
- Simplifies setup and operation with user-friendly interface and pre-set modes.
- Minimizes waste and environmental impact through improved sorting accuracy.
- Applications
- Wheat,Pulses,Coffee,Nuts,Rye
- End products
- Rye bread,Lentils,Wheat flour,Chickpeas,Robusta coffee beans,Cashews,Arabica coffee beans,Almonds
- Steps before
- Dehulling,Milling,Grinding,flaking,Cooling,buffering,Conditioning
- Steps after
- Packing,Palletizing,Sifting,grading,Drying,Filling,decorating
- Input ingredients
- coffee,nuts,pulses,wheat,rye
- Output ingredients
- sorted coffee,sorted nuts,sorted pulses,sorted wheat,sorted rye
- Market info
- Buhler is renowned for manufacturing advanced process solutions for food, feed, and advanced materials. They are highly regarded for their innovation in milling technology and equipment quality.
- Reject Concentration
- Up to 50% higher
- Color Differentiation
- Full-color cameras for subtle defects
- Foreign Matter Detection
- InGaAs cameras for high detection
- Ejection Algorithms
- Significantly minimizes false rejects
- Calibration and Tracking Algorithms
- Improves machine consistency
- Connectivity
- Remote performance monitoring
- Ease of Use
- No technical skills required
- User Interface
- Simple design
- Defect Sensitivity Control
- Individual control
- Sorting Performance Tracking
- Real-time tracking with SORTEX Monitoring System
- Automation level
- PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Changeover time
- Minimal due to automated setup
- CIP/SIP
- Automated clean-in-place
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized energy usage
- Cleaning method
- Automated with in-built protocols
- Connectivity
- Industry 4.0 compliant remote monitoring
- Ease of use
- Pre-set modes for easy operation
- Calibration and tracking
- Automated real-time calibration
- Foreign Matter Detection
- Advanced optical sorting capability
- Reject Concentrations
- Up to 50% higher reject accuracy
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Application variety
- Coffee,Nuts,Pulses,Wheat,Rye
- Control panel type
- Simple user interface
- Control panel type
- Simple user interface
- Integration possibilities
- Industry 4.0 compatible
- Machine setup modes
- Pre-set and tested by experts
- Language support
- Multiple languages
- Connectivity
- Remote performance monitoring