Case Study: Omrin avoids quality penalties with Greyparrot real-time quality data

Omrin avoids quality penalties with Greyparrot in a 300,000-tonne sorting facility

The customer, Omrin, a waste processing facility in the Netherlands, faced the challenge of maintaining a consistent purity level in its mixed-plastics output. Manual sampling was insufficient, as it was resource-intensive and only captured a tiny fraction of the material, leaving them at risk of costly financial penalties from the producer responsibility organisation. They partnered with the vendor Greyparrot and implemented its Analyzer system for real-time quality monitoring.

Greyparrot's solution provided Omrin with continuous, real-time data on its output stream. This allowed them to identify a recurring, previously invisible cause of quality dips linked to the weekly calibration of an optical sorter. With this validated data from Greyparrot, Omrin could pinpoint the exact root cause and prepare to address it with their equipment supplier. This visibility helped them avoid financial penalties and is now informing the design of a new, smarter facility.

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