QUANTOS enables the user to analyse beverages quickly, simply and reliably in their own production facility – no external laboratory or laborious training required. This enables you to ensure an efficient production chain and a precise and high-level quality control of your products.
QUANTOS introduces a new, quick and accurate analysis process for the whole production and distribution chain of the food industry into the market.
In a single measurement, it analyses the exact concentration of the different ingredients and parameters of a sample – and all in just a few minutes.
QUANTOS sets a new benchmark, both in terms of monitoring and optimising the production chain, as well as of quality control of the end product.
QUANTOS scores in all areas: accuracy, analysis spectrum, speed, user-friendliness, versatility and robustness.
The digital fingerprint of the sample requires very little preliminary work and is ready in just a few minutes. It provides information on the product’s identity and origin and on the composition and quality of the sample.
QUANTOS distinguishes clearly between beers and can also analyse mixed beverages. Its versatile use means that it optimises the whole production and filling process.
QUANTOS’ measuring method does not rely on the refractive index and density measurement (BRIX).
Alcohols and sugars can therefore be precisely quantified at the same time in a single analysis.
QUANTOS also accurately calculates sweeteners, additives, preservatives and parameters such as pH values, bitterness, SO2 content and foam stability, even in very low mg/l concentrations.
This versatility means that QUANTOS can be used throughout the whole beverage production, from recipe to filling.
QUANTOS clearly distinguishes itself from conventional analysis through its versatility, error rate, qualitative assessment, cost, robustness, sensitivity and what is required from the user.
Whereas a chromatography column can only analyse specific substance classes, QUANTOS measures all the parameters of a sample. External analyses often require several days, while QUANTOS provides a measurement, complete with evaluation, in just a few minutes.
Common analysis procedures are prone to user error and staff require expert knowledge of laboratory analysis; QUANTOS, on the other hand, requires only a brief introduction to be used without error and without laboratory experience.
As with personnel costs, the outlay for consumables is also significantly lower for QUANTOS.
IR spectroscopy, as used for QUANTOS analysis, has long been known and is incredibly easy.
This microdimensional use, however, is unique.
Although the mathematical models behind all product-specific QUANTOS evaluations are very complicated, operation by the user is not.
To obtain such accurate results, QUANTOS uses the different molecular structures of the individual ingredients of a liquid.
It passes a beam of infrared light through the sample; this light is absorbed according to the molecular structure of each substance and causes the substances to vibrate.
After passing the sample, the remaining light energy is intercepted. The resulting wave spectrum is unique to each sample composition.
Highly complex analysis does not automatically entail highly complex operation. This is the benchmark that QFOOD has set itself and for which it has developed software to enable every employee to easily perform measurements and analyse spectra without requiring expertise in laboratory analysis.
The sample usually only needs filtering prior to the injection; the user-oriented software then guides the user step by step through the measurement, evaluation and data storage, and is adapted to users from the whole production chain.
Clear and intelligible input masks make the program almost intuitive to operate.
An error check integrated in the software means that user errors can be practically eradicated.
The analysis is ready a few minutes after starting the measurement and an overview of the measurement results is presented clearly on the screen.
The Q*OS program deals with measurement, analysis and calculation, storage, as well as with additional evaluations and maintenance: a real all-rounder.
Storing data is easy. However, the B&B Base is much more than a database or a sample catalogue of tested liquids. The stored spectra are a digital 1:1 image with all the characteristics of the original sample: ingredients, viscosity etc.
This allows the user to read all the parameters of the original sample from the digitalised version, even at a later date, without needing to perform a new measurement.
The samples are compared with the reference spectra stored in the B&B Base to ensure consistent product quality (Taste ID). Of course, this also means that the user can clearly determine from which product the sample was taken (Origin ID).
And they can even check the production facility and batch (Season ID) because the precision measurement reveals reliable spectrum features – minimal but characteristic – for each product batch.
”An absolute 1: 1 digitization - no information is lost!
Dr. Robert Seidel
From the recipe to the end consumer, a beverage not only runs through several steps in the production process but also through several sites or even producers. It is therefore difficult, when an end product proves defective, to swiftly locate the source of the fault. It takes time, energy and, of course, money.
The QUANTOS chain provides the perfect solution to this. By simply measuring every intermediate product leaving or arriving at a site, a digital fingerprint is created that can be compared and verified upon arrival at the next plant, before further use.
This creates a complete control chain over the whole manufacturing process: the QUANTOS chain.
”Real food safety only exists if everything is monitored from the raw material to the final product. That's why we developed the QUANTOS chain.
Dr. Robert Seidel
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