Always a step ahead in the latest fruit technology, Vizier’s roller sizer is known for its fruit friendliness. Excellent dimension sizing and colour grading accuracy are pivotal to its main features. Also, it has the unique ability to sort by weight.
Integrating considerable software functionality, the system can manage cumulative production figures per orchard or packer, overall labour production costs and productivity statistics. Its flexibility provides upgradeability from a weight-only configuration to optics.
Suited to uniform fruit such as citrus and stone, the system construction is sturdy and hygienic. It has a throughput of up to 10 fruit a second per lane. The smaller pitch between rollers results in a lower forward belt speed than the cup sizer for the same fruit throughput, thus reducing the possibility of fruit damage significantly. And needing roughly half the number of lanes than a cup sizer for the same throughput requirement means it’s much more cost-effective.
The electro-optical system has configurable features which can be adapted to the precise packhouse application requirements. Of note are:
Accurate weighing through multiple weighing samples per fruit with high-precision load cells and signal conditioning to eliminate vibration noise
Analysis of multiple fruit views captured with cameras and vision technology, while compensating for any fruit orientation variations
Sorting fruit to combinations of characteristic dimensions, volumetric size, colour and weight. Dimensions can be specified in terms of pole or middle diameter and then either the longest, shortest or average. The system also can identify fruit of specific dimension for which the weight doesn’t correlate to the expected specification
Extensive operator diagnostic tools are available to identify damaged or bad weighing units
Multiple sorting programs can be configured, stored and recalled
If maintenance and support guidelines are followed, Vizier guarantees its sizer systems to perform to specification. Furthermore, focusing on internet- and web-based technologies, our system software now contains tools enabling customers to perform diagnostics previously done by our technicians.
Windows-based application with graphic display and configuration
SQL real-time database
Reports of sorted fruit statistics per variety per grower/orchard/batch, cumulative reports per variety per grower. Also, it can be configured to run in either sample sizer or continuous mode
Integrated system diagnostics
Integrated system maintenance functionality
Managing up to four grades to any combination of the available lanes
Real-time graphs of sorted statistics
Optional software functionality allows packer performance and throughput monitoring, as well as implementing traceability labeling. Bins tipped, fruit back into bins, pallets produced and consigned are other stock management functions available
Mechanical
Lane configuration in multiples of two
Fruit release per drop is either via a drop board with flap-assisted release to the product belts (typically used for stone fruit), or via hammock-style chutes directly onto the product belts (typically for citrus)
Integrated, sloped singulator section
Stainless steel dog housing covers the chains at the singulator, camera and weighbridge sections
Plastic roller components are rugged and proven over more than ten years.
