MAX-AI - Autonomous Quality Control (QC) Machine

Max discovers the best path to take through its artificial brain to reach the correct answer. Through millions of iterations, Max learns how to identify new images, correctly classifying objects never seen before.

Synergy
Our customers benefit from our commitment to bringing together separate specialties and technologies in a way that delivers benefits that are greater than the sum of the parts. We have the unique ability to develop technology, produce products and integrate them into customized systems all under one roof. We thrive on purposeful, thoughtful collaboration between our divisions to deliver comprehensive, best-in-class offerings that provide exceptional results for our customers.

• Institution-Wide Collaboration
• More Offerings than Our Competition

Through our extensive experience, deep knowledge and broad expertise, we steer our customers towards comprehensive, integrated solutions specifically tailored to their waste recovery needs. Our understanding of the industry and our customers’ unique challenges is unmatched. We use our intelligence and know-how to give our customers the advantages they need for stable, long-standing success.

• Depth & Breadth of Expertise, Knowledge & Skill

We’re constantly on the lookout for What’s next. and operate accordingly. Our people are pioneers and trailblazers leading the way in our field. We offer solutions that feature the most advanced, cutting-edge technology and innovations available. We pride ourselves on constantly improving our technology and equipment offerings to the benefit of our customers.

• Embracing technology and advancement
• Our customers will always be a step ahead

We’ve earned our reputation as trusted guides in the world of waste sorting, processing and recovery. We follow through on our commitments and ensure our customers operate with utmost efficiency and reliability when it comes to our machines, technology and systems. We’re approachable, resourceful and helpful. We earn trust by caring about our customers’ success and prove it every day with quick responses and supportive solutions to their challenges and needs.

• Dependability, reliability & solutions-based approach

Max-AI technology is an artificial intelligence system that identifies recyclables and other items for recovery.  Through deep learning technology, Max-AI employs multi-layered neural networks, along with a vision system, to see and identify objects similar to the way a person does. The technology will drive improvements in Material Recovery Facility (MRF) design, operational efficiency, recovery, system optimization, maintenance, and more.

Max is able to identify materials in a MRF by quickly processing video images through a detection pipeline and deep learning neural networks. Deep Learning neural networks are computational machine learning models based on distributed representation that are inspired by the architecture of the human brain.

These systems, rather than being explicitly programmed, use machine-learning approaches and excel in areas where the solution or feature detection is difficult to express in a traditional computer program. Rather than relying on deterministic decision-making, using discreet values and comparisons to reach a decision, Max-AI technology uses self-learned behavior, making a decision based on the neural network’s inference.

The neural network solves problems much in the same way that the human brain would. From birth, humans have processed images with our eyes, learning to identify objects. Max learns in the same way through deep learning techniques. Only possible with the latest AI algorithms and GPU-accelerated parallel high-performance computing, Max is trained with millions of images with different materials already identified. Time and time again, Max discovers the best path to take through its artificial brain to reach the correct answer. Through millions of iterations, Max learns how to identify new images, correctly classifying objects never seen before. Max has seen hundreds of thousands of similar items, so when a new item is seen, Max has already worked out the correct thought-process to immediately recognize it.

Maximizing recovery can require significant investments, both in capital and operating expenditures. Recent market fluctuations have shown us that recycling is not always profitable. At BHS, our mission is to deliver industry leading knowledge, products, and projects that enable our customers to achieve superior financial results. There is significant demand to increase automation and performance of MRFs, and Max-AI® technology is the next step towards a completely automated sorting operation. Max-AI technology does things a human sorter cannot, including but not limited to unwavering speed, endurance, ‘focus’ and instantaneous decision making.

BHS equipment – whether that’s screen, air, optical or AI powered sorters – is all about results. We deliver industry leading throughput, uptime, recovery and purity rates at the lowest cost-per-ton possible. Max is the next leap forward, ready to make recycling more profitable for our customers while increasing diversion for our communities. The Autonomous QC is already able to sort more effectively and at a lower cost, paving the way for more profitable, impactful recycling.

Max-AI technology will eventually do things even the best plant operators can only dream of – imagine an operator with the ability to continuously analyze the material entering a MRF as well as the material throughout the sorting process, all the while making adjustments to optimize operations. Max-AI technology has the potential to accomplish real-time optimization and much more. As development continues, Max-AI technology will account for market information, including commodity prices and purity requirements, to make the ideal bale. Max will monitor material, performance and equipment settings to control equipment including robotic sorters, like the Autonomous QC or even changing conveyor speeds and screen angles. The possibilities of this technology are game changing; the BHS Max-AI® MRF represents a very exciting future for recycling.

Meet Max-AI, the future of intelligent sorters capable of learning and designed for autonomous optimization. Improves productivity, safety and your bottom line. Max-AI and BHS. What’s next.

Wherever you are
Max-AI provides innovative, reliable intelligent technology solutions to facilities and operations worldwide.

Efficiency & Productivity
Max-AI boosts efficiency, productivity and safety—directly improving customers’ bottom line and helping them compete more effectively.

Long-Term Solution
Max-AI offers a long-term, results-based solution that is adaptable and changes to best suit new variables or directives.

No Comparison
When it comes to collective experience, knowledge and capability, no company, product or technology can compare to Max-AI.

Customer Service
Max-AI serves customers in a way that addresses their needs, solves their challenges and builds long-term trust.

Deliverable Benefit
Thanks to software updates and an intelligent neural network that adapts to ongoing changes in the variables it sees, Max delivers a long-term, “future-proof” solution to quality control and manual tasks.

Our Promise
Through reliable, cutting-edge technology, Max improves MRF productivity, reduces overhead and produces higher profits.

Expansion Capabilities
The ability to integrate Max throughout your waste processing system opens the potential to create an overarching brain capable of expanding labor-free automation and optimization.