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How IntelliScience Appliance works

One pass grades color, length and defects together — from loading a raw sample to tracking results across every batch.

From sample to grade in four steps

No sorting, no special prep — pour the sample and IntelliScience Appliance does the rest.

  1. Hands pouring a produce sample from a bag into the IntelliScience Appliance sample tray.
    Load the samplePour a sample straight into the tray — no sorting, no special prep.
  2. A produce sample passing under the IntelliScience Appliance imaging bar as it is scanned.
    IntelliScience Appliance images itOne pass under the imaging bar captures the whole sample at once.
  3. The IntelliScience Appliance screen showing a raw sample on the left and detected defects highlighted on the right, with a hand resting on the sample tray.
    See the gradeColor, length and defects are graded together, with detections you can see and review.
  4. The IntelliScience portal charting inspection counts over more than a year of graded batches, at a glance.
    Track over timeEvery graded sample flows to the portal, so trends across batches, shifts and plants are there when you need them.

If you can load a tray, you can run it

Built so anyone on your QA team can use it — easy to learn and quick to run.

  • Simple to run

    2button pushes

    On average, that’s all it takes to run an inspection and send the results to the IntelliScience portal.

  • Fast to a grade

    <10sto an objective grade

    Load a sample tray, press start, and the grade is on screen in less than 10 seconds.

  • Add a tray

    1result for any sample size

    Sample bigger than one tray? Tap + and load the next tray — IntelliScience Appliance combines the counts, size buckets and defects into one result for the whole sample.

The IntelliScience Appliance standing on its own on a counter with no conveyor, its sample tray drawn out holding a sample and a result on its touchscreen.

No line integration required

It sits on a counter. It doesn’t need a conveyor.

  • Compact footprint

    Fits on a lab bench or counter, with no facility changes needed.

  • Works with your lab

    Runs alongside the instruments already in your lab.

  • Conveyor optional

    Need higher-volume sampling? Pair it with an optional table-top conveyor.

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What your QA team sees

Every result shows the raw sample beside what IntelliScience Appliance measured, so your team can check the call.

The IntelliScience Appliance color inspection screen showing a USDA score of 0.96 and a color score of 61.4, with the raw sample beside its color map.
Color result on the IntelliScience Appliance: a USDA score and a color score, with the raw sample beside its color map.
The IntelliScience Appliance uniformity and defects screen showing a 45-piece count, the length distribution and minor, major and critical defect counts, with every piece outlined and measured.
Length and defects result for the same sample: piece count, length distribution and minor, major and critical defects, every piece outlined and measured.

What IntelliScience Appliance grades

Everything is measured in the same pass, so nothing is judged in isolation.

Color grading

Where the manual way falls short

Read by eye, color drifts between technicians and between shifts, and single-purpose graders judge it in isolation from the rest of the sample.

How IntelliScience Appliance does it

IntelliScience Appliance is the QA-lab standard for color — objective, repeatable grading your team trusts on every batch, in the same pass as everything else.

Length grading

Where the manual way falls short

Length is usually eyeballed or hand-measured on a handful of pieces — slow, sampled thin, and inconsistent from bench to bench.

How IntelliScience Appliance does it

IntelliScience Appliance measures length automatically across the whole sample, in-tray or over the conveyor, with proven and repeatable accuracy.

Defect visibility

Where the manual way falls short

When color, length and quality are checked in separate manual steps, defects are easy to miss and hard to review after the fact.

How IntelliScience Appliance does it

IntelliScience Appliance locates and classifies defects in the same pass as color and length, so nothing is judged in isolation and every call is reviewable.

Mixed vegetable composition

Where the manual way falls short

Blend ratios are typically estimated by hand-counting or weighing a scoop — laborious, approximate, and slow to feed back to the line.

How IntelliScience Appliance does it

IntelliScience Appliance reports the live percentage of each vegetable in the blend automatically — no counting, no weighing.

Your history carries forward

Measurements can be correlated to your historical scores, so the years of work behind your standards stay usable.

  • Color on your scale

    Every pixel of every piece is graded and rolled into one objective color score that can be correlated to the scale you use today.

  • You set the standard

    Size buckets, defect cut-offs and color correlation — you set the standard for each measurement.

  • The same method at every review

    A calibrated image, measured the same way each time, so results compare cleanly from one review to the next.

Every IntelliScience Appliance connects to the portal

Every sample an IntelliScience Appliance grades flows to the IntelliScience portal — giving you a global view of what’s running through your plants, and the assurance that every line, in every plant, stays consistent with your quality standards.

The IntelliScience portal inspection view: total, passed and failed inspection counts above a grid of inspection cards, each showing its scores, a pass or fail result, the product and a thumbnail of the sample.
The IntelliScience portal: one card per inspection, with its scores, pass or fail result and sample image, plus running pass and fail totals. Shown with a demo account; company and plant names are fictitious.
  • Every IntelliScience Appliance, connected

    All of your IntelliScience Appliances report to one portal, automatically.

  • A global view

    See what’s going through every plant, live and in one place.

  • Consistent with your standards

    Confirm every line is grading to the same standard, plant to plant.

Ramping up on a new product

Every product you add follows the same three stages, and each one ends with something your team can evaluate.

  1. 2 weeks

    Size & uniformity MVP

    Every piece of your product is measured individually.

  2. 1 month

    Color MVP

    Color ramp-up: objective color scoring on each piece.

  3. 2–4 weeks

    Meet your standards

    We tune size, uniformity and color to the standards you provide.

  • Worst-case timeline

    8–10weeks for a new product

    That’s the worst case — we pride ourselves on how quickly we train new models. On potato products, where color is already established, the color stage is skipped: 4–6 weeks at worst.

  • Sample to start

    100–500sample images

    Given a good sample of about 100–500 images, it can move faster. The clock starts once we have representative samples of your product and your spec.

See how a pilot works

See IntelliScience Appliance grade your product

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