Tong Caretaker potato grader<\/a>, the optical sorting unit is fitted in place of a standard inspection table, working very accurately on unwashed crop, separating foreign material from crop. Using the latest camera technology, the optical sorter scans all items whilst in-flight to identify and separate crop from clod, stones and foreign objects including wood, plastic, glass, bone, rubber, metal and more. The machine offers effective separation for a wide range of potato varieties, including main, seed and processing crop.<\/p>\n\u201cGrowers and packers are continuously looking to increase the efficiency and productivity of their handling systems, with a definite focus across the industry on labour and its associated costs,\u201d says Charlie. \u201cWhilst we are offering carrot and potato processors advanced optical sorting of washed crop with the increasingly popular Visar optical sorter, the removal of stones and clod from dirty crop still remains a somewhat manual process for most. This new optical sorting option now offers growers and fresh pack companies a fully automated system for consistent removal of stones and clod from unprocessed crop, which essentially removes the need for inspection staff at this stage in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new optical system, coupled with our latest Pro-Series Auto-Touch HMI control system, is bringing next generation automation to the intake crop handling process, for increased productivity and consistency whilst significantly reducing labour requirements,\u201d added Charlie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since Tong Engineering launched the option of integrated optical sorting within its market leading grading machine, the Caretaker, back in 2016, the inclusion of advanced optical sorting on dirty grading systems has proved to be a very welcome addition. Introduced to offer potato and vegetable growers and processors automated optical sorting of dirty crop, Tong…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,61,76,80,117,225,233,329,331,332,345,357,403],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-dirty-potato-optical-sorting","tag-optical-sorting","tag-optical-sorter","tag-carrot-grading","tag-onion-grading-line","tag-tong-engineering","tag-potato-grader","tag-potato-grading-line","tag-vegetable-handling-project","tag-vegetable-equipment-updates","tag-tong-grader","tag-potato-grading","tag-potato-sorter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongengineering.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}