Dipix Introduces Intelligent Material Handling
22 November 2007 - 12:30AM
Marketwired
OTTAWA, ONTARIO , today announced its new Intelligent Materials
Handling technology for manufactured food products, coupled with
its first two intelligent material handling products the AutoLaner
and the Smart Counter. This offering provides packaged food
producers with complete systems that know the exact state of
product, where it is, how fast it is traveling on the conveyor and
in which orientation. By combining this information with
automation, Dipix enables streamlined manufacturing operations,
which reduce waste and labour cost, while ensuring the delivery of
a highly consistent product.
Regardless of size, manufactured food product operations are
under ongoing pressure to increase productivity and profitability,
all while they are seeing increases in raw material and energy
consumption costs, rising emphasis on food safety and quality
assurance, and mounting regulatory requirements. Working closely
with major customers, Dipix has evolved its product offering toward
a complete, vision of integrated Intelligent Material Handling that
includes a range of automation products for different bakery
product lines including Inspection Systems, AutoLaners and the
recently announced Smart Counter.
"We began our collaboration with Dipix over a year ago to solve
an over-pack problem," said Jim Moss, Engineering Manager at
General Mills, Trenton plant. "The Dipix Smart Counter provides
highly accurate box-counts for different product without mechanical
change-over, and integrates automated inspection and rejection. It
went in smoothly and operates so consistently in our facility that
we just don't have to pay much attention to it."
Dipix Technologies has over 240 automatic inspections systems
successfully installed world wide in a variety of bakery
facilities. These vision systems allow accurate and objective
product evaluation and permit two important additional
capabilities, significant payback through down-stream intelligent
material handling and rapid identification of significant faults
for root cause correction. This powerful combination of systems
enable organizations to achieve far more accurate delivery of fully
in-spec product to downstream equipment such as baggers and
slicers, and compensate for jamming and bottlenecks, while
eliminating human intervention in inspection and handling
tasks.
"Dipix's platform provides us with the intelligence required at
the macro and micro level of our operation," said Richard Irvin,
Complex Manager at Tyson Mexican Original. "The level of detail
enables us to make smart decisions on a day-to-day basis and
quickly make required changes on the floor. The end result is less
wastage and a better product, all of which contributes to our
bottom line."
Dipix's Intelligent Materials Handling offering includes the
following:
- Inspection Systems (Customized to plant product line): These
are turn-key systems that can be easily inserted into production
lines in order to continuously measure critical size, shape and
color measurements of fast moving objects. The basic difference
between these systems is the width of the inspection area (i.e.,
production line conveyor width).
- AutoLaner: The Dipix AutoLaner is a series of PLC-controlled
lanes that divides a random stream of products such as buns equally
into multiple lanes (typically four or six). It is normally
installed immediately before the slicer/indexer, and seamlessly
replaces a section of existing conveyor.
- Smart Counter: The industry's first fully integrated system to
inspect, reject, count and group frozen dough and par-baked
product. The Smart Counter is designed for material handling
situations in which it is not practical or desirable to singulate
the product (put the product into a single-file stream), and for
facilities where rapid changeover to different shaped or sized
articles is required.
For more information on Dipix's Intelligent Material Handling
Platform, please visit www.dipix.com.
About Dipix
Dipix Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Tarquin Group Inc. (TSX
VENTURE: TQN), pioneered the use of vision technology to solve
material handling problems in food manufacturing plants. The
company integrates leading edge optical inspection with mechanical
handling and management reporting to deliver the industry's best
vision-based quality inspection systems. Coupled with information
from these systems, automation allows Dipix to provide solutions to
common and costly material handling problems. Dipix systems are
used by leading manufactured food companies to reduce operating
costs and waste, pinpoint process errors, reduce variability, and
increase the volume of in-spec delivered goods. Dipix has over 200
installations in high volume manufacturers of processed foods -
including many major international corporations. The company was
founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Ottawa Canada. For more
information, visit www.dipix.com.
The TSX-Venture Exchange does not accept responsibility for the
adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contacts: Media please contact: Maggie Patterson 613-614-2053
Maggie@hbsmarketing.com DIPIX corporate: Laura Dierker 613-596-4942
ldierker@dipix.com Investor relations: Tarquin Group Inc. Donald
Gibbs CEO 613-236-3334 dgibbs@tarquingroup.com
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