SOLUTION Q-Sort

Q-Sort: Automated Quality Sorting Using Computer Vision

Q-Sort: Automated Quality Sorting Using Computer Vision

A machine vision system integrated into the production workflow that automates the sorting of each part in real time, ensuring operational consistency and uniform standards across shifts and plants.

Key Indicators

Speed Up to 200 units/min
Coverage ≥ 99.9% of parts processed
Classification Premium · Standard · Industrial
Integration Waste sorting systems + Information systems

What it detects

  • Surface defects: detects and measures melanosis, bruising, gaping, and cracking.
  • Color grading by fillet section: Loin, Belly, NQC, Tail.
  • Skin-side inspection: identifies the presence or absence of visible defects.

Key Outputs

  • Real-time automatic quality sorting.
  • Online segregation is performed automatically, without manual intervention.
  • Standardization of criteria and reduction of operational variability.
  • Digital record of per-item classification decisions.
  • Adjust parameters from the Q-Sort platform without interrupting operation.
Automated categorization

Quality Allocation

The system combines defect and color data, using thresholds defined in the Q-Sort platform to automatically assign a final quality category: Premium, Grade, or Industrial. Q-Sort processes, classifies, and reports the assigned quality in real time.

  • Dropdown: Activation via an electrical signal (relay) that controls a pneumatic solenoid valve.
  • Grader: transmits 24V DC electrical pulses that encode the quality grade.
  • Other systems: can be integrated depending on the plant's infrastructure.
online management

Q-SORT Platform

A web platform that enables users to manage automatic sorting, simulate scenarios, and adjust sorting criteria in real time.

  • Scenario simulation: See how production changes when you modify classification criteria.
  • On-the-fly parameter adjustments: immediate changes without interrupting operations.
  • Direct integration with segmentation hardware, reflecting changes in real time.