- Quality and efficiency all the way from grain to flour
- Like every other industry,
milling is subject to increased market pressures. Customers demand consistent
quality and product variety while production efficiency must be maintained if
not improved. A FOSS solution can prove an important ally in walking such a
tightrope.
- Using Infratec™ 1241 Whole
Grain Analyzer millers can analyse whole grain or flour with a single instrument
- realising efficiency improvements throughout production. One instrument
covering both flour and grain minimizes the number of analysis instruments. It
makes it simple to implement and run an analysis solution. And the need for just
a few robust and highly versatile calibrations saves time and money too.
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- For grain
- Since its launch in 1987, Infratec has become widely used for grain analysis. Today it is the most widely
used system in the world for securing the quality of grain during commercial
transactions. In the milling industry it is used at the grain intake for payment
analysis or verification of quality and secondly, for controlling the tempering
process in pursuit of an increased flour yield.
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- And flour
- Using a simple flour module,
millers can analyse flour as well as grain with the existing Infratec unit. The
Flour Module delivers highly accurate measurements of parameters such as
moisture, protein and ash in flour. Additional parameters such as water
absorption and wet gluten are available.
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- Based on the latest FOSS Infratec platform, the flour module brings the
simplicity and usability benefits of modern monochromator technology to the
routine user in the flourmill. All information in the NIR spectra is used to
create a stable calibration that can be transferred to other instruments without
loss of performance. There is no longer any need for monthly/weekly bias
adjustments of the NIR instruments to get the performance you demand.
- The use of artificial neural
network (ANN) calibrations gives the possibility to make multipurpose
calibrations covering different types of flour products in the same calibration.
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