Valley Growers: Enhancing Productivity through Automation

山谷种植者：通过自动化提高生产力

• 批准号: 517710-2017
• 负责人: Commito, Michael
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Cambrian College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=641676
• 关键词: Valley; Growers; Enhancing; Productivity; through

Sudbury, Ontario is a place renowned for pulling minerals out of the ground, but Valley Growers is doing its best to put anotherunderground resource, potatoes, on the map. Dating back to the 19th century, Sam Rainville discovered that potatoes grown inthe rich, sandy soil north of Sudbury produced some of the most exceptional potatoes hed ever eaten. Since then, potatoes havebecome a staple crop in Sudbury, and Valley Growers has become one of the communitys premier potato farms. In addition toharvesting potatoes, Valley Growers also produces its own French fries. Currently, they produce over 3,000 cases of fries perweek, and the annual sales associated to this tasty, golden product is more than $3-million.The challenge confronting Valley Growers is that they do not have an automated and intuitive system for gauging how effectivetheir cooling methods are after the deep frying process. As a result, Cambrian College is proposing the installation of infraredtemperature monitors across the production line in order to assess what the temperature is of the fries as they immediately comeout of the fryer and the cooling units. Currently, the temperature of the French Fries is taken manually using remote probesensors, which slows down the production cycle and limits efficiency. Using automated sensors, data will be captured into acomputer where Valley Growers can then carefully monitor the temperature of the French fries in real time in order to enhanceproduction.

安大略省萨德伯里（Sudbury）是一个以将矿物从地上拉出的地方而闻名的地方，但山谷种植者正在尽力将另一个登山的资源（马铃薯）放在地图上。可以追溯到19世纪，山姆·雷恩维尔（Sam Rainville）发现，在萨德伯里（Sudbury）以北的富裕的沙质土壤中种植的土豆生产出有史以来最出色的土豆。从那以后，土豆在萨德伯里（Sudbury）占主食，山谷种植者已成为社区的主要土豆农场之一。此外，谷谷种植者还生产自己的炸薯条。目前，它们生产了3,000箱炸薯条Perweek，并且与这种美味，黄金产品相关的年销售额超过300万美元。面临山谷种植者面临的挑战是，在深度油炸过程之后，它们没有能够计算有效的自动化和直观的系统。结果，寒武纪大学提议在生产线上安装红外温度监测器，以评估炸薯条的温度，因为它们立即出现在炸薯条和冷却单元。目前，炸薯条的温度是使用远程探针手动进行的，这会减慢生产周期并限制效率。使用自动传感器，数据将被捕获到acomputer中，然后山谷种植者可以实时仔细监测炸薯条的温度以增强生产。