Xenics Infrared Solutions recently featured P&P Optica in their white paper titled “Automated Assessment of Food Quality and Safety”. Xenic’s Cheetah cameras are an important part of PPO’s spectrometers. This white paper outlines PPO’s inspection solution for food processors, and why we chose to use Xenics technology in our Smart Imaging System. It also explains …
On February 11th 2021, Olga Pawluczyk, CEO of PPO; and Casey Gallimore, Director of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs of the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) presented a webinar on detection methods for food processors.The webinar covered tools you can use to understand how different inspection systems will perform in your plant, and to make decisions …
Webinar – Preventing Contamination: It’s All About Detection Read More »
When it comes to finding foreign materials, there are a lot of options available to food processors: X-rays, metal detectors, visual detection systems and manual inspectors, to name a few. But no matter what methods you choose to make sure your products are free of contaminants, it’s crucial to understand exactly how that system will …
Preventing Food Contamination: It’s All About Detection Read More »
On October 22nd, PPO and Fieldale Farms presented a webinar specifically for poultry processors. The webinar was presented by Tim Stork, PPO’s Product Manager; Danny Jeng, PPO’s Product Development Specialist; and Corbett Kloster, Director of Food Safety & Quality Assurance at Fieldale Tim Stork kicked off the webinar with a quick introduction to PPO’s Smart …
Webinar – Helping Poultry Processors Increase Automation and Optimize Production Read More »
On June 18th, PPO presented a webinar that went in depth into spectrometers, how they’re made, and why they are so important for our system. The webinar was presented by Priya Krishnaswamy, PPO’s Optics Specialist; Michael Griffiths, PPO’s Application Specialist. The webinar began by covering the basics of spectroscopy, then moving to how spectrometers are …
On May 28th, PPO presented a webinar that considered how data can be used to help make your plant more efficient with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.. The webinar was presented by Brad Oldenburg, PPO’s Director of Data Insights; Jason Jordan, an experienced Plant Operations Manager and Director of Marination Equipment, Applications Specialist & …
Webinar – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Food Industry Read More »
Did you know that there are over 1600 Google searches each month for the term “Vision Systems”? When we visit our clients, we hear a lot of discussions about vision systems in food processing. But “vision systems” is an umbrella term that can include many different technologies. And those technologies offer very different things to …
On April 23, our CEO, Olga Pawluczyk and our Data Quality Lead, Dr. David Gilbank presented the first in a series of webinars. The webinars will focus on helping food processors increase automation and improve food quality and safety during these challenging times. This webinar started by considering how we can understand the performance of …
Webinar – A New Approach to Food Safety and Quality Read More »
“This morning, our inspectors found a tiny speck of hair on a piece of chicken. But last week, they missed a shovel.” Does this sound familiar to you? Many of our clients tell us that food inspectors can be remarkably good at finding foreign materials … sometimes. But they also know that many different factors affect …
