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AI for Recycling

Automate MRF QC Lines

Utilizing AI with material extraction in MRF quality control positions is a great compliment to optical sorting. Optical Sorters are the heavy lifters with high-capacity sorting. AI sorting is the perfect fit to completely automate a sorting line.

Introducing Vivid AI™

Vivid AI™ is advanced sortation with deep-learning capabilities, complementing NIR optical sorters. It offers finer product and material classifications and introduces innovative extraction technologies. Powered by Recycleye, it enhances material sorting in MRFs and brings benefits such as reduced headcount, improved safety, enhanced recovery, and increased commodity purity.

Explore MSS AI

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Vivid Air™

Vivid Air™ is the first of its kind AI sorting extraction method, utilizing over four decades of expertise in positive pressure air ejection for superior sorting efficiencies.

It combines the Recycleye AI sensor with the MSS air ejection system to enable high-volume material sorting. The system offers benefits such as increased throughput and sorting efficiency, ten times higher picks per minute, and minimal maintenance. Single-eject or dual-eject options are available.

Benefits:

  • High volume compared to robotic solutions
  • 10 times higher picks per minute than any mechanical arm or human sorter
  • Multiple objects can be extracted side by side at the same time, like conventional optical sorters
  • Very low maintenance, no daily suction cup replacements
  • Lower compressed air usage
  • Single-eject or dual-eject options available
  • Replaces manual quality control personnel
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Vivid Bot™

This is the traditional robotic solution for recycling systems, suitable for tight retrofits and low-volume facilities. It can identify and sort more than three material categories.

Benefits:

  • Good solution for tighter retrofits and lower volume areas
  • More than three material categories can be identified and sorted
  • Replaces manual quality control personnel
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Vivid Vision™

Utilize Vivid AI’s powerful statistics and data monitoring tools for material streams in your recycling facility. Powered by Recycleye, this AI technology enables real-time sorting decisions based on an extensive image database and neural network.

Vivid Vision™ can be used with Vivid Air™ or Vivid Bot™ and as a standalone unit for material characterization analysis. It allows for real-time operating decisions, data and material audit report generation, and can be placed on most conveyor belts due to its modular design.

Benefits:

  • Monitor material characterization to make real-time operating decisions
  • Create data and material audit reports
  • Modular design allows you to place on most conveyor belts