- HappyAgro's FirmPro It is one of the main instruments for measuring firmness, size and colour in the fruit industry and one of its most valued features is its reports, which are considered fast, reliable and effective. In addition, like all of the company's products, the reports can be customized according to the client's needs.
He FirmPro It has become the main instrument for measuring firmness, size and colour of small fruits up to 50 mm in the market; it is used by the entire agro-industry, companies and study centres. And one of its main features is the data it provides. Both the laboratory and portable versions provide a report with detailed information on each fruit, which allows customers to know the quality of their products.
FirmPro It is natively integrated with Excel. The output data sheet incorporates a statistical analysis tab that allows conclusions to be drawn about the sample and the batch of fruit analyzed, with this you can estimate, for example, the percentage of the batch that meets a minimum required firmness. In addition, the user can upload his own reception sheet or general data analysis sheet in a tab, and this is automatically completed with each measurement made by the user. FirmPro.
Like all products from HappyAgro, these reports can also be customized and adapted to the client's needs. This is explained by the CEO of HappyAgroRobinson Gálvez, “our software performs a consolidation that stores all the information measured by each piece of equipment. This report has the possibility of consolidating the information fruit by fruit or a summary line (with the information already processed) of each batch.”
In this way, the FirmPro allows exporters and producers to measure the main characteristics of their fruits with a single instrument, with all the information consolidated in a single report; thanks to this, it is possible to avoid using more instruments and multiple reports. Gálvez adds that “we seek to provide a solution to the client that will avoid having multiple reports with different formats or, in the worst case, manually transcribing the information they generate into a common report, which produces errors. The FirmPro “It ensures that you have objective data.” This is confirmed by the director of the Post-Harvest Studies Center since 2009, Victor Hugo Escalona, who stated that FirmPro provides “a measurement that is quite fast, reliable and objective.”
Another advantage of these reports is that, as they are prepared in Excel, they are easily updated. According to the CEO of HappyAgro“Each season, we add new reports and features. The Excel report started out very basic, with only raw data, but then we added caliber labels and firmness classification ranges. With this, we were able to perform distribution analyses of these characteristics. Then, we developed the colorimeter and were able to show the color distribution and the average firmness of each color. Last season, at the request of our client Giddings Cerasus, we even began to report indicators and firmness distribution for each color group. This season, we updated the report to also report the average firmness by caliber label.”
