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, the UI is driven by a recently developed core software system and further enhances the clarity and confidence experienced by users and operators of the company’s sensor-based sorting and peeling technology.
The UI has been developed from the ground up to offer a new intuitive way for customers to interact with their food sorters and simplify the operating process. Tomra ACT achieves this 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.
John McGloughlin, Tomra Sorting Food’s head of innovation, said: “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”.
