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TOMRA announces Packhouse
Academy
TOMRA Food has launched Packhouse
Academy, which offers a wide range of ondemand
videos, live interactive webinars
and user-driven training modules.
Packhouse Academy's Tier 1 content,
which is free to access, helps build or
affirm general industry knowledge, as well
as covering topics specific to operating
TOMRA Food equipment. Tier 2 premium
content, accessible to paid subscribers,
is TOMRA Food-specific. Tier 2 content
complements, and sometimes substitutes
for, the Instructor-Led Training (ILT)
workshops at TOMRA Food's seven global
training centers and onsite coaching at
customers' premises.
Packhouse Academy initially offers 75
courses, each with a length of about five
to seven minutes, with bundles of three
or more courses forming seven distinct
learning paths. Courses can be taken in
part and then completed at a later date.
Knowledge checkpoints and scores make
it easy to track progress through study
modules and records are automatically
kept of each course and learning path
successfully completed. Completion
is recognized by a downloadable
personalized certificate.
Course content comprises topics, such
as the responsibilities, tasks and skills
demanded by packhouse operations:
* Optimizing packhouse production
capabilities
* Good manufacturing practices
* Packhouse safety
* Packhouse sanitation
* Setting up and optimizing sorting and
grading equipment
* New software and new products
* Troubleshooting
The learning paths cover packhouse
standards; sizer operations at
morning startup; sizer operations and
troubleshooting; sizer operations and
maximizing performance; an introduction
to Spectrim (the industry's most powerful
optical sorting platform); an introduction
to Inspectra² (the internal inspection
system for fresh produce); and cleaning
and sanitation of TOMRA Food equipment.
Packhouse Academy can be found at
www.packhouse-academy.com.
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of strong passwords which must be
centrally verified by the software
* Security across firewalls, with
enhanced Open Platform
Communication Unified Architecture
(OPC UA) encrypted machine-tomachine
communication, including
tags for performance test results,
seamlessly shared with high-end
systems such as Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing
Execution System (MES)
* Automatically logged performance test
data to fulfill food safety regulations
* Full support for batch changeovers
which means that an individual product
can be automatically traced via its
unique serial number
* Fail-safe testing regime for product
inspection, ensuring due diligence and
compliant performance
Visit mt.com for more information.
Mettler-Toledo updates food
inspection software
Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has
released a new, significantly updated
version of its ProdX product inspection
management software.
Based on Industry 4.0 principles
of secure machine-to-machine
communication, and in preparation for
connectivity to the latest data-protective
Blockchain technology, ProdX 2.4
delivers full digital Track & Trace and
real-time food safety compliance. Specific
enhancements include:
* Security features, such as enhanced
password rules to enforce the use
Tong upgrades vegetable
polishers
Tong Engineering has unveiled several
updates to its range of vegetable polishing
equipment. The latest model of the TPSPro
polisher has been carefully fine-tuned
for 2021 resulting in a more refined
design that maximizes performance and
makes maintenance easier.
Manufactured in a 14-brush model
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featuring a 3-millimeter long by
800-millimeter barrel, as well as an
18-brush model featuring a 3-millimeter
long by 1,050-millimeter barrel, the
TPS-Pro polisher is suitable for effective
polishing of root crops including potatoes,
carrots and parsnips, providing outputs of
between 15 to 30 tonnes per hour.
For lower throughputs of up to 10 tonnes
per hour, Tong's U-Brush polisher is a
favorite amongst smaller packers who
require a reliable, low-maintenance
machine that provides a high-value
polished finish, but at a lower cost.
Visit www.tongengineering.com for
more information.
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