Polysense for Potatoes
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Turn potato variability into consistent yield

Measure, monitor and automatically optimize quality and process parameters across your potato processing line, from intake to final pack.
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Used by leading potato processors worldwide

Potato intake inspection

  • Measure remaining peel and over-peeling in real time
  • Detect peeling inconsistencies across the line
  • Optimize steam or abrasion settings automatically
  • Reduce unnecessary potato removal
  • Stabilize peeling performance despite raw material variation
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Peeling Optimization

  • Detect greening, damage, rot, and defects
  • Predict processing performance and yield
  • Route batches to the optimal production line
  • Reduce variability caused by inconsistent raw material
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Cutting Optimization

  • Monitor strip quality, dimensions, and breakage
  • Detect cutting inefficiencies early
  • Adapt cutting parameters to potato characteristics
  • Reduce short fries and unusable product
  • Improve downstream process stability
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Optical Sorter Optimization

  • Provide smarter defect classification before or after sorting
  • Optimize sorter thresholds dynamically
  • Reduce good product loss caused by aggressive sorting
  • Improve separation between acceptable and defective product
  • Adapt sorting logic to changing product conditions
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Defect & Foreign Material Detection

  • Detect discoloration, dark spots, burn marks, and deformities
  • Identify foreign materials inline
  • Monitor product quality continuously at production speed
  • Reduce dependency on manual inspection
  • Improve traceability and reporting
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Protect yield and margins

Natural variation in potatoes often leads to unnecessary product loss during peeling, cutting and sorting.
Up to 5% higher yield
Optimize raw material utilization
Reduce over-processing and giveaway
More predictable margins

Reduce waste across the line

Quality issues are often detected too late through manual sampling.
Up to 40% less waste
Optimize raw material utilization
Reduce over-processing and giveaway
More predictable margins

Helping operators deliver consistent results every time

Ensure consistent product quality across batches and shifts by reducing variability and reliance on manual adjustments.
Up to 37% less operator dependancy
Optimize raw material utilization
Reduce over-processing and giveaway
More predictable margins
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Whitepaper

Quality Control in Potato Processing

A new pair of eyes for quality control teams in potatoes

Raw material utilization

Get the most out of a single potato

Small variations in raw potatoes quickly translate into yield loss during peeling, cutting and sorting. Real-time measurement helps processors optimize how raw potatoes are used across the line.
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Dimensional consistency

Consistent fry size and specification

Variation in potato size and cutter performance leads to inconsistent fry dimensions. Continuous measurement helps maintain consistent product specifications.
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Defect & process stability

Stable quality and fewer rejects

Surface defects, bruising and foreign material can disrupt production and lead to unnecessary product rejection. Real-time monitoring ensures early detection and stable quality.
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Understand your production line

We map your line end to end: what to measure, which quality challenges matter, and which KPIs define performance. This creates a shared baseline of reality.

Install and train

Polysense is installed on your existing production line with minimal hardware changes, integrating with the machines and systems you already use. Our algorithms learn your product and production behavior.

Real-time control in your hands

Product quality is measured in real time on the line, giving you continuous visibility into variation, defects and performance. The platform goes live with dashboards, alerts, and root cause analysis. Your team acts on real-time insights and continuously steers production based on what is happening now.

Closed-loop optimization

Polysense moves from insight to action. Setpoints are automatically adjusted to optimize performance, while operators focus on exceptions instead of constant monitoring.

The outcome?

A dynamic production process that stabilizes output despite variability.
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That's exactly what it's built for. Fresh produce quality shifts withclimate, growing region and supplier. Polysense measures quality continuously,so your line parameters adapt to what's actually coming in rather than stayingfixed to last season's settings.

Optical sorters are only as good as the settings behind them. Most areconfigured once and rarely updated, because there's no live data to driveadjustments. Polysense feeds continuous measurement data back to your sorters,so their parameters stay accurate as raw material quality shifts across seasonsand supplier batches.

Polysense integrates with the systemsalready running on your shop floor, including SCADA, MES and PLC platforms.Measurement results flow directly into the systems your team already uses,including your central dashboards and reporting tools. No parallelinfrastructure required.

That's common. Most vision systems arebuilt as generic tools that don't account for the realities of food processing.Polysense is different in two ways: we focus exclusively on food production,and we've built deep, hands-on understanding of how real production linesactually behave. We don't come in with a generic camera solution and hope itfits. We work directly with food producers, so the system is designed aroundyield, variability and production constraints, not lab conditions.

Yes, and this is one of the highest-impact use cases. When operators set aggressive peeling settings to be safe, they lose good potato that did not need to come off. Polysense measures peel remain in real time and adjusts peeling parameters dynamically, so you peel just enough, consistently, without leaving peel behind or removing more than necessary.

Yes. Polysense is configured to detect and classify specific defect types relevant to your line and your quality standards. Whether you need itemized defect categories or a general defect rate, the system is set up around the parameters that matter for your operation and your customers.

That is exactly what it is built for. Polysense measures quality continuously, so your line parameters adapt dynamically as raw material characteristics shift across seasons, varieties and supplier batches, rather than staying fixed to settings that made sense months ago.

No. Polysense is designed to install on the line you already have. We connect to your existing equipment with minimal hardware changes, including peelers, cutters, sorters and washers. Most lines are up and running within a few weeks.

That's common. Most vision systems are built as generic tools that don't account for the realities of food processing. Polysense is different in two ways: we focus exclusively on food production, and we've built deep, hands-on understanding of how real potato processing lines actually behave. We work directly with potato processors, so the system is designed around yield, variability and production constraints, not lab conditions.