HDM Lights out factory

Have a look at the Lights Out, Industry 4.0 Factory of the Future, where you will be able to see all latest developments in sensors and controls of HDM, where Full Automation is at the forefront of all new designs.
The Stripe Detection Cockpit (SDC) incorporating RGB technology identifies potential over refining and enables automatic adjustment of the 5 Roll Refiner during production, to provide autonomous refining.
The industrial proven Partial Adjustment Cockpit (PAC) has become a technical standard in 5 Roll Refining ensuring the required particle size is continuously achieved over the entire roll length at maximum throughput and therefore lowering the cocoa butter usage for the final chocolate.

For inclusion in cocoa bean processing, the Humidity Monitoring Cockpit (HMC) is used to prolong the Mailliard Reaction phase in order to accentuate the roasting flavour.
Additionally, the Quality Yield Cockpit (QYC) can offer a substantial ROI. Once again using RGB technology, a pre-determined algorithm ensures the minimum amount of nib is lost with the shell and maximises yield.

The smart sensor related Cockpits create many sources of valuable process data for customers around the world, enabling them to actively control quality, improve yield and efficiency and ultimately to save time, energy and money.

At a point in time where energy is too precious to waste and time is too critical to ignore, using AI to make automatic adjustments and communications is fundamental to achieving perfect production, releasing people to add real value to the daily operation.