Fruit processing
Fruit in, product out, and the kilos in between accounted for.
A processor pays for fruit by the tonne and sells oil, juice, slices or kernels by the kilo. KiloSahihi weighs the truck at the gate, records the sample and its QC result on the same ticket, applies the deductions, and weighs every stage to the finished product, so the mass balance and the yield per batch come from the scales.
Receiving
How a truck of fruit is received.
The receiving pattern large pineapple, avocado and juice plants use, run from the weighbridge.
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Gross weight at the gate
The loaded truck is weighed on the bridge against the supplier, the farm and the variety. With ANPR the plate is read and the pending delivery order is matched automatically.
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Sample drawn
A sample is taken from the load and weighed. Its weight, who drew it and when are recorded on the same ticket, so the sample cannot be swapped between trucks.
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QC result on the ticket
Dry matter, Brix, ripeness, defects, foreign matter or moisture from the lab are entered against the ticket, with accept, reject or downgrade decided by the rules you set.
- 4
Deductions applied
Foreign matter, rejects and moisture deductions are computed from the QC result and shown on the ticket the driver receives, so the supplier sees exactly why the payable weight differs from the gross.
- 5
Tare and payable weight
The empty truck is weighed out. Net fruit, deductions and payable kilos are final, and the supplier's account and the ERP are updated as the ticket closes.
- 6
Into the batch
The intake is assigned to a processing batch. Every scale after that, washing, sorting, pressing, filling or packing, weighs into the same batch.
In the plant
Mass balance from the scales, not the spreadsheet.
Every stage weighed
Intake, sorting, crushing or pressing, centrifuge, filling, packing and by-products, captured from the scale at each station.
Batch mass balance
Fruit in against oil, juice, pulp, cake, peel and waste out, by batch and by day, with the unexplained difference shown, not hidden.
Yield by supplier and variety
Oil or juice yield per tonne of fruit, by supplier, farm, variety and ripeness, so buying decisions are made on measured yield.
QC and sampling records
Sample weights, lab results, who tested and when, all attached to the intake ticket and the batch.
Supplier accounts and payments
Deliveries, deductions, advances and payable amounts per supplier, paid from the same record.
Tanks and silos live
Oil tanks, juice tanks and kernel silos on load cells, so stock is live and the balance closes daily.
ERP integration
Goods receipts, batches, outputs and stock movements post to Sage, Dynamics 365, Odoo, SAP or your own system.
Cameras at the gate
Overview and ANPR cameras record the truck at gross and tare, so a dispute has a picture.
Works offline
Weighing, sampling and tickets run locally at the plant and sync when the connection is there.
Products
Avocado oil, pineapple, juice, macadamia and more.
An avocado-oil plant runs on exactly this cycle today: fruit intake locked at the bridge, the QC gate, ripening and sorting passes weighed, crushing, and graded oil dispatched by the kilo. Pineapple canneries and juice plants receive fruit by the truck with a sample and a Brix result, then track slices, juice, pulp and peel out of each batch. Macadamia and cashew processors weigh nut-in-shell in with moisture and defect sampling, and kernels out by grade. Tea, sugar and dairy intake work the same way with their own QC fields.
- Avocado oil: dry matter at intake, oil yield per batch
- Pineapple and juice: Brix and ripeness, slices, juice and pulp out
- Macadamia and cashew: moisture and defects in, kernel grades out
- Any intake where a sample decides the price
Questions
Frequently asked
- What is a mass balance in fruit processing?
- The reconciliation of what went into a batch against everything that came out: product, by-products and waste. When each of those is weighed on a scale that feeds the software, the balance is computed per batch and the unexplained loss is visible the same day.
- How is sampling tied to the truck?
- The sample is weighed and recorded on the intake ticket while the truck is on the bridge, with the sampler's name and time. The lab result is entered against that ticket, and deductions are computed from it before the tare weight closes the ticket.
- Can suppliers dispute deductions?
- The ticket shows gross, tare, sample, QC result, each deduction and the payable weight, with a photo of the truck where cameras are fitted. Disputes are settled from the record, not from memory.
- Does it replace our LIMS or ERP?
- No. It captures the weights and the QC decision at the gate and on the line, and posts them to the ERP. Lab results can be entered directly or imported.
- What does it need from the plant?
- A scale at each stage that matters, read by the software. Where a stage has no indicator we supply one. Tanks and silos are put on load cells for live stock.
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