TOMRA launches new food sorter user interface to improve work flow

TOMRA Sorting Food has unveiled a new graphical user interface (UI) to help food processors get the most from their sorting systems by optimizing work flows and reducing waste to deliver improved profitability.

Called TOMRA ACT, he company claims the UI further enhances the clarity and confidence experienced by users and operators of the company’s sensor-based sorting and peeling technology.

The UI was developed to be more intuitive for customers to interact with their food sorters and simplify the operating process with easy-to-understand graphics and touch screen tools giving food processors greater control and better feedback to improve food quality and deliver enhanced safety.

The UI is available on all the leading manufacturer’s new food sorting machines, featuring a main screen, allowing operators to see critical sorting information and real-time process data at a glance. Clear information enables improved monitoring, and fast adjustments are possible at any time, so the operator is always in control and is ideally placed to simply and easily optimize the sort.

TOMRA ACT is at the core of TOMRA’s latest generation of food sorters, the TOMRA 5A and TOMRA 5B. In certain select prior models, the UI can be installed as an upgrade. This means that an operator can use all TOMRA ACT based machines once trained on one.

John McGloughlin, TOMRA Sorting Food’s head of innovation, said: “The development of TOMRA ACT involved many in-depth discussions with customers to ensure we provided them with an interface that improves the performance of their sorters and therefore their businesses.

“Food sorting machines contain very complex sensors and we wanted to protect the operator from this, without taking away their ability to setup and optimize the sorter on their own. The aim was to create a system that keeps even a complicated sorting task as simple as possible. I think we have met, and possibly exceeded, that objective.

“Historically, the sorter’s UI focused on the sorter’s technology, and it was confusing and difficult to use. TOMRA ACT is focused on the customer, allowing them to easily control quality and direction that product flows in their sorting process, with simple, intuitive, touch gestures and actions on the screen.

For more information:
Marijke Bellemans
TOMRA Sorting Food
Tel: +44 (0)113 394 4582
Mob: +44 (0) 7432 655440
Marijke.Bellemans@tomra.com
www.tomra.com/food