• How do palm oil mills work?
  • It all begins with the transportation of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from plantation sites to the palm oil mills. The milling operation includes several stages, namely reception, sterilization, threshing, digestion and pressing, clarification and purification, and kernel recovery.
  • What is a typical palm oil milling process flow?
  • The typical palm oil milling process flow is best described through a series of activities conducted in different stations (Figure 2). It all begins with the transportation of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from plantation sites to the palm oil mills.
  • What is oil palm & machine learning?
  • Background of Oil Palm and Machine Learning The Elaeis guineensis, commonly known as oil palm, is a single-stemmed branchless tree, which takes several years of investment and labour work before producing harvestable oil containing fresh fruit bunch (FFB) .
  • Could oil palm mechanisation technology be a powerhouse?
  • Currently there are a few potential manufacturing powerhouses, especially those from government linked companies (GLC), which have the potential to bring the development of oil palm mechanisation technology to advanced pace, especially in order to fulfil the lack of manpower issue.
  • Are smart systems transforming oil palm agri-business?
  • However, smart systems integrated with machine vision and artificial intelligence are evolving to reform oil palm agri-business. This article offers an opportunity to understand the significance of ML in the oil palm agricultural industry and provides a roadmap for future research in this domain.
  • How has mechanisation revolutionised the oil palm industry?
  • Adoption of mechanisation and automation is the basic key aspect in revolutionising the oil palm industry. The trend is actually very similar to the European Industrial Revolution during the 1970s where the European began to shift into machinery and mechanisation in order to speed up the output of their industries (Styles, J., 2020).