Sorting equipment Machinex’s SamurAI articulated robots use artificial intelligence to extract recyclable commodities, such as plastics, from a material stream or to remove any contaminants from a particular material, such as PET. MACH Hyspec optical sorters can be used in plastics recycling facilities to sort PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS and other resins.
What’s new? The company’s latest artificial intelligence technologies, MACH Vision and Intell platform, which now can be integrated into the SamurAI robot and MACH Hyspec optical sorters as options. MACH Vision is a data acquisition station powered by artificial intelligence that can use a combination of technologies, including infrared hyperspectral technology, visual recognition and metal detectors, to analyze material streams. MACH Vision is connected to Intell, a platform that provides real-time data capture so that users can fully comprehend the characteristics of the material stream. It provides key performance indicators, such as flow composition, volume per material type, material trends and total amount of material on the conveyor belt.
Benefits Improved efficiency and performance. The technologies give facility operators a better understanding of the composition of material streams in real time. With this information, users can quickly respond to changing trends to optimize sorting performance using a data-driven decision process.
Machinex Technologies Inc., High Point, N.C., 336-899-8514, www.machinextechnologies.com
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