Xiao Wa is a huge fan of potato chips. She used to only know how to eat them, but she didn't know how they were produced in factories.In early 2020, during the height of the pandemic, potato chip sales actually increased significantly. Xiao Wa was fortunate to work with Orion Foods (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Orion Food Research Institute to participate in the flavor development of potato chips. Through the Internet of Things technology of the Carbon-Free platform, the storage and production processes were fully monitored, helping Orion Foods produce potato chips with better flavor.

Let the potatoes breathe freely in the warehouse

In order to produce crispy and delicious potato chips, potatoes need to be properly stored in a warehouse. "We need to know the carbon dioxide concentration in the warehouse and maintain a constant temperature and high humidity," said Director Zhang of the Equipment Department, who raised the initial requirements.

Orion has six potato warehouses. With the full cooperation of the equipment department, the kilowatt technology team completed the installation and debugging of carbon dioxide, temperature and humidity monitoring systems for all warehouses in one day, and the data can be viewed at any time on PCs and mini-programs."When the carbon dioxide concentration reaches a certain level, the fans need to be turned on automatically for ventilation," Section Chief Chen put forward a more stringent requirement.

The automatic start and stop of the fan can also be achieved through the alarm-automatic control system of the Carbon-Free platform.Team leader Shen, who has more than 30 years of production and R&D experience, exclaimed, "I want to let the potatoes breathe freely, so that the potato chips produced will taste the best."

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Make the equipment run at its best

Although potato chip production is fully automated, it involves the coordinated operation of many pieces of equipment. "It's impossible for people to monitor the production equipment 24 hours a day. We want to collect some important parameters of the equipment to ensure that it is operating in the best condition," said Ash from the equipment department, raising a new requirement.

Researcher Yuan from the Food Research Institute was very excited because he had just completed a comparative study on the taste of potato chips under different humidity and carbon dioxide concentrations, and he could now participate in the study on the crispness of potato chips under different amplitude and pressure conditions.

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To produce more potato chips from one kilowatt-hour of electricity

Orion has dozens of factories worldwide, and the Orion Qingpu factory, which is supported by the Carbon-Free Integrated Energy Platform technology, has the highest output/energy consumption ratio."We save several million yuan in energy costs every year," the factory manager praised the equipment department.

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Please try the potato chips you participated in making.

As the supplier, we were initially hesitant to take anything from the client, but the research team leader, Shen, was very enthusiastic and said in somewhat broken Chinese, "This box of potato chips is even better than before, please be sure to try it."

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