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Dated: 4 March 2008
Quality is a top priority at Frigemo, the Swiss food processor that manufactures french fries for McDonald’s. To consistently match product quality to specifications, Frigemo relies on ADR 4, an automatic defect removal system for potato strips from Key Technology.
ADR 4 inspects Frigemo’s french fries and automatically cuts out defects, optimizing quality and productivity.
Combining high-resolution Vis/IR cameras, a patented belt conveyor, a patented rotary cutter, and Iso-Flo high-speed vibratory conveyors, ADR 4 aligns, singulates, inspects, and trims potato strips with unparalleled precision at the rate of 13,500 pounds (6 metric tons) per hour.
It eliminates manual inspection and trimming, and improves cutting accuracy and good product recovery, which has led Frigemo to experience a 12-month payback on ADR 4.
Leveraging Key’s G6 electro-optical foundation, ADR 4 offers the most sophisticated image processing in the industry.
A powerful new controller, modular vision engine, and trichromatic cameras combine more pixels and faster scan rates to achieve more complex and robust inspections, which is important to Frigemo.
Operating five production facilities, including the largest potato processing plant in Switzerland, Frigemo produces over 45,000 metric tons of product per year and has earned a 58% market share of the Swiss french fry market.
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