Last year , ISO Group released their Bulb Planting System , which is capable to plant up to 10,000 tulip bulbs per minute and key non - healthy bulb . This twelvemonth , they will be installing 22 more machines in the Netherlands , mean they are basically sold out for the 2021/2022 season , and there is already stake from other country . Wim van der Meyden , Director , and Raymond van den Berg , International Sales Manager at ISO Group , share why the machine is so advantageous as well as the many challenges they had to face.10,000 bulbs per hourVan der Meyden and Van lair Berg explain how the machine is able-bodied to automatise the planting of 10,000 tulip bulbs per hr . “ The electric light go through the machine , after which it singulates the incandescent lamp , because we need to take a look at each medulla oblongata individually . Then , six photographic camera scan the individual incandescent lamp and take photograph of it , of which a 3D good example will be made . This provides us to take a good look at the preference of the medulla as well as any potential diseases . If there is an ‘ acid ’ bulb we can recognize this and take it out of the remaining process . As a result , only the sizeable tulip bulb get implant . ““The imaginativeness system calculates the co-ordinate of the bulb , and the motorcar puts it in the right emplacement to put into the holder , a cognitive process that is fully based on Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) . As the system work on AI , this means that we can constantly update and ameliorate it . The more data we contribute to it , the good the simple machine will work . Especially when it comes to identify the non - healthy bulbs , we have been able to increase the winner pace . And once the crate is full the bulbs can go to the greenhouse . ”High demandWhile the motorcar was only unfreeze last year , there has already prove to be a lot of requirement for it . “ Last year the auto have been operational a 3 growers with a total of 7 machines last year has been a not bad success . First off , the gamy demand is mostly because the availableness of labour is very limited in the gardening manufacture . Moreover , the prole that are available have often not received the proper breeding , which lead in higher fail rates as the chances of not recognizing non - intelligent bulbs become much higher . Usually , around 5 - 7 % of tulip bulbs are ‘ acerb ’ , so our simple machine ’s successful recognition is an authoritative aspect . ” At the import , there are seven Bulb Planting Systems operational at three node , and they are installing another 22 machines this year . For now , these machines are only in operation in the Netherlands , as that is one of the major tulip - growing countries . “ Yet we have note an interest from other land , such as North America and England , so we are planning to take the machine to other countries in the near time to come . ”
ChallengesYet the development of the machine did not come without any challenge . “ One of the liberal challenges while uprise the political machine was being able to do all of this without damaging the tulip bulb , which is quite an accomplishment as it is very fragile . Also , the tulip bulb is not a consistent product and each one ’s shape and size is different , which compromise the dependability of singulating . to boot , with some case of bulb it is difficult to learn which side goes up , so determining the counsel is another challenge . And all of these challenging aspects want to work at a relatively quick speed as well , as it plants up to 10,000 bulbs per hour . Therefore , the entire development of the automobile took us about three years , but we are excited about its solution and the high requirement . ”For more informationISO GroupRaymond van den Berg[email protected]https://www.iso - group.nl / nut / Paul Blom[email protected ]
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