SpectraTrend HT Baked Goods
SpectraTrend HT is designed to help food manufacturers improve their color quality control by providing real-time continuous color measurements throughout the productionprocess.
From roasted nuts, to breads and buns, cookies, crackers and a variety of other processed bakedgoods and snack foods, SpectraTrend HT sits over the production line and continuously measures the product color, providing real-time color results and early warning of any color drift
This allows operators time to make necessary process corrections before a fail condition.
The SpectraTrend HT knows when a sample is present, and only reports measurement data for sample measurements, not data from gaps or conveyor belts, so data results are never erroneous.
SpectraTrend HT continuously measures the product color and compares each measurement to preset color standards having predetermined color specifications and color tolerances, providing immediate detailed results through the entire production process.
Pass/warning/fail results are sent to the stack light for visual indication of real-time color status, in this case showing a ‘green’ light, indicating color is within pre-determined specifications. Audible alerts can also be integrated using the 4-channel outputs.
Upper and lower warning limits can be set in the instrument software to give early warning of color drift indicated by the orange light
This early warning allows for operator intervention to correct color drift before a fail condition.
The stack light will change to red if color drifts out of color specifications, allowing operators to quarantine the product until corrective action can be taken and color is brought back into specifications.
SpectraTrend HT includes color Workbench, a PC based software solution for at line or remote color process monitoring, providing easy standards recall, and display of real time color data, color trending and pass/warning/fail results in a variety of color scales and color indices used in food color analysis.
