Month: April 2026

We’ve been involved with sweet potato sorting for decades, Recently our friends at Matthews Ridgeview Farms approached us with a challenge. They needed to increase their plant’s capacity to produce more bagged sweet potatoes. Their existing line featured a 12-lane AccuVision optical sorter feeding a phalanx of AccuFill automatic weight fillers. Several other drops led to XTR100 4-Belt Accumulators which fed other automatic box filling equipment. To add both the required volume and steady flow of product their new bagging machine required, we added a new XTR100 4-Belt EvenFlow Accumulator at the end of one of the existing drops to feed a new bagging station. This offered them the granular control on the volume heading they needed to keep the bagging station operating at the capacities they need. We did all within the existing footprint of the plant, too!

If you are looking to upgrade your sweet potato (or other commodities!) operations, get in touch! We’d be happy to talk with you about how Exeter Engineering can make your product handling and packing operations better, giving you the most efficient operations for your business and your customers.

Exeter Engineering is pleased to announce our latest update to the industry-leading ID Technology, our AI-powered sorting solution: ID Technology PLUSx. With this latest update, ID Technology is joining the AI revolution in a real way. We’ve integrated the very best large language models available from the biggest AI firms in the world, giving ID Technology to not only grade your potatoes, but also:

• Explain why you are feeling so happy about how the potatoes are being graded
• Suggest a new outfit for your dinner date with your spouse
• Offer you a detailed statistical analysis to predict which teams are likely to win NCAA basketball tournaments.

Controlled from the same touchscreen as ID Technology, ID Technology PLUSx brings capabilities that were once scattered across dozens of different apps and services all to the same screen and all in the heart of your operations. Need advice on a business plan to present to the board? ID Technology can run the sort on your sweet potatoes, draft that plan and even come up with a pretty power point, featuring real-time photos of the sweet potatoes it was just sorting. Easy as that.

If you’re interested in upping your AI game, look no further than Exeter Engineering’s ID Technology PLUSx, the first word of the last line of the book written about AI.*

*This post was written using ID Technology’s PLUSx chat function. It’s that good. We are thinking of replacing the entire marketing department with it.