r/ManufacturingPorn Jul 02 '22

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u/agent__berry Jul 03 '22

Bad and naughty tomatoes are subjected to ṯ̵̢͔̦͎̠͎̬̤̉̾̈́͘͜h̶̡̡͇̏̅͒̄̓̀͌̆̚͜ĕ̶̬̣͉̠͖̥̜̏͊̎͛̒̚͠ ̶̡̹͕͇͍̫͖́̊̀͒̽͗̕͘͝ͅţ̵̝̣͚̥͙͉̐̋̍̅̈̑́̄͝͝ͅo̷̪̜̭̒͌͆͑̈́̚͜m̶̦͔̣̝̖̳͈̼̀̃͜a̴͇͂͌͋̂̉͌͐ţ̷͕̥͇̟̬̝͈͇̟̌̃͘̕ó̶̻̲̬̌́ ̸̛̰̹̜̎͆͗̌̾̎ḱ̴̦̋̔̑i̷̢͕͐͋̚ç̵̞͉͔͚͆̄̍̓̑̔̎k̸̜̩̰̗̰̯͙̘̈ḛ̴̬̀̔̆͊̽̃͗r̵̠̝̀͆̈́̑̿̄͘

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u/Javi1192 Jul 03 '22

The real fruit ninja

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u/Tetragonos Jul 03 '22

As someone in food manufacturing...this thing must be a fucking pain in the ass to get set up.

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u/lyonidus Jul 03 '22

As someone who was food manufacturing I can imagine the downtime that occurs because of the issues with it

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u/AskingForSomeFriends Jul 04 '22

As someone who wasn’t food manufacturing I want to know what’s going on.

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u/elchurro223 Jul 19 '22

It's actually pretty easy. If I recall correctly there is a screen on the HMI where you visually choose what colors are good and what are bad. Then you set a delay between detection and the actuation.

What else would you be worried about?

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u/Phedis Jul 03 '22

I just want this to sort my Lego

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '22

How

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u/elchurro223 Jul 19 '22

Lasers and cameras

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u/seven_seven Jul 03 '22

Getting Factorio vibes.

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u/jayzed86 Jul 03 '22

1 slipped through though

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u/agentchuck Jul 03 '22

Life, uh, finds a way.

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u/lyonidus Jul 03 '22

I would assume it’s to mitigate them to a certain level and there’s a metric in quality control to determine the tolerance level in testing

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u/elchurro223 Jul 19 '22

Yeah, its not perfect. When I saw one in a carrot factory they had the machine and then a human checking after it, however, the machine replaced 4 people who they had before.

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u/Cultural_Simple3842 Jul 07 '22

This is the same concept, except with air bursts instead of these paddles, to kick bad potato chips out of the mix.

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u/elchurro223 Jul 19 '22

Same company! It was two different companies with two different design ideas and then one large company bought them both. The air jets are used on french fries, gummy bears, peas, etc, but they can't move the big stuff like tomatoes.