The figure illustrates a production line of manufacturing potato chips in a factory.
Overall, to become the crisps, the potatoes undergo an almost automatic process including six main stages: sifting, washing, slicing, frying, seasoning and packing. In that, there is only a step with the intervention of workers where they select the high quality potatoes.
The process begins once the workers carefully handpick the potatoes to ensure they are in the good quality. The potatoes are then tumbled into a washer which is filled by cold rinse water to get rid of dirt. After that, they are moved to a peeler to peel their skin and starch. Next, they are placed on a bucket conveyor which supplies the resulting potatoes one by one to the slicer. The slicer machine cuts the potatoes into small slices, and then these slices are put on a automated flat bed conveyor which go through jets of air to make the slices dry. In the fourth stages, the slices are deep fried in oil by a fryer, after which the fried potato slices leave this machine on a flat belt conveyor. At the fifth stage, these fried potato slices are seasoned with salt by a salter before being packaged by the bag packer and bulk can filler in the final step
The figure illustrates a production line of manufacturing
potato
chips in a factory.
Overall
, to become the crisps, the
potatoes
undergo an almost automatic process including six main stages: sifting, washing, slicing, frying, seasoning and packing. In that, there is
only
a step with the intervention of workers where they select the high quality potatoes.
The process
begins
once the workers
carefully
handpick the
potatoes
to ensure they are in the
good
quality. The
potatoes
are then tumbled into a washer which
is filled
by
cold
rinse water to
get
rid of dirt. After that, they are
moved
to a peeler to peel their skin and starch.
Next
, they
are placed
on a bucket conveyor which supplies the resulting
potatoes
one by one to the slicer. The slicer machine
cuts
the
potatoes
into
small
slices
, and then these
slices
are put
on
a
automated flat bed conveyor which go through jets of air to
make
the
slices
dry. In the fourth stages, the
slices
are
deep fried
in oil by a fryer, after which the fried
potato
slices
leave
this machine on a flat belt conveyor. At the fifth stage, these fried
potato
slices
are seasoned
with salt by a salter
before
being packaged
by the bag packer and bulk can filler in the final
step