Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, has introduced Key Discovery™. This suite of software solutions transforms Key’s digital sorting systems into Industrial Internet of things-connected devices that collect, analyze, and share data while sorting product. By harnessing data about the sort process and about every object flowing through the sorter, Key Discovery can reveal patterns and trends that improve sorting and help control upstream and downstream processes. Key Discovery provides actionable information that enables processors to optimize product quality, maximize yield, reduce downtime and minimize labor to increase profitability.
Key Discovery is available for all Key Technology sorting equipment including VERYX® digital sorters and ADR EXOS™ automatic defect removal systems, as well as other Key sorting platforms. It offers flexible connectivity to a processor’s enterprise, whether to a manufacturing execution system or a supervisory control and data acquisition system, shop floor management software, or power-line communication network, via a secure infrastructure.