Get More Product with Closed-loop Batch Optimization

Q: What is the challenge of batch turnover being too long?

Product consistency is key to quality, but frequent inspecting in with manual sampling extends your processing times. Removing guesswork is critical to optimizing batch processing, turnover rates, and batch cycle time.

Peanut butter being filled into jars on a production line, optimized by Laminar’s spectral sensors and AI agents to ensure consistency and reduce waste.

The Challenges and Costs of Unoptimized Lines

Product consistency is key to quality, but frequent “inspecting in” with manual sampling extends your processing times. Removing guesswork is critical to optimizing batch processing, turnover rates, and batch cycle time.

Producing golden batch quality every batch cycle is a challenge. Viscosity, homogeneity, ingredient quality, and process consistency are all critical parameters that must be tuned right to ensure both productivity, efficiency, and quality are optimal.

Rising pressure to focus on input costs, efficiency, and productivity leaves less time to chase losses and search for clarity on batch processing output variability by shift, line, or SKU. Still, losing good product hinders output goals.

Laminar Gateway device installed in a production environment, securely transmitting real-time data from inline spectral sensors to Laminar AI agents that optimize CIP, changeovers, batch processes, and quality monitoring.

Closed-Loop, Autonomous Optimization of Batch Operations

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Know When it is Ready

Laminar’s sensors and ML models for batch optimization monitor your batch processing, reducing the number of samples required to check progression or completion. Laminar's batch quality assistance speeds up every batch cycle in real-time.

Produce a “golden batch” every time

Laminar’s sensors and ML for batch operations builds a unique digital signature that incorporates all key batch parameters (viscosity, color, composition etc.) of a “golden batch” and compares it in real-time to your current batch. Our ML models then take precise action for mid-batch corrections when the batch is ready or alerts when the batch specs deviate from the set standard.

Produce more from every batch

Clean-in-Place and Changeovers are necessary processes to maintain batch quality and meet demand, but they are a root cause for product loss and downtime. Laminar’s sensors and ML model algorithms send alerts to capture good product and improve your batch size and output instantly.

Run Perfect Batches Every Time

Laminar’s spectral sensors, coupled with our purpose-built ML Models, build a distinct signature in real-time of your batch composition that our AI Agent monitors.

You now have a view inside your equipment that transforms the way you run your batches. No more guesswork and excessive sampling. More autonomous precision = more perfect batches every time.

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Laminar inline spectral sensor attached to a stainless steel production pipe, built with sanitary fittings for food and beverage environments and enabling AI-driven process optimization.

Easy Retrofit, Instant Results

Our patented spectral sensors are non-contact and 3A, BPE, sanitary certified. They are an easy retrofit on any standard pipe dimension and we ship you ALL the hardware you need to get them installed in just a couple of hours. They self-calibrate, require practically no maintenance and are very easy to replace (just in case).

Unilever sees a return on investment in under 1 year.

With Laminar, Unilever reduced downtime and cut consumption of chemicals and water by 20%.

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