Ovine IMF measurement production prototype

03 March 2023
Focus area: Automation, processing and efficiency
Program stream: Innovation and technology leadership
Project number: 2022-1049
AMPC worked with inMR Measure to design and build a prototype system for non-invasive, automated, percentage intramuscular fat (IMF) measurement of lamb and to prove application in processing plants. 

As part of the project, inMR Measure designed and built a single-sided Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) sensor, called Marbl™ and trialled it in processing plants in New Zealand and Australia. The prototype successfully demonstrated automated measurement of % IMF of hot lamb carcases. 

Measuring carcases hot, at the end of the slaughter floor will provide processors with the opportunity to sort into chillers followed by batch manufacture of similarly graded product.  This should provide efficiencies in manufacturing.
 

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