Analysis for the level of Unmillable Material or Screenings by hand-held sieve is one of the oldest and most simple tests applied to grains and pulses. This age-old process may seem simple but it has proven difficult to achieve rapid, reliable and reproducible results in practice. However, the recent application of technology to the test enabled a rapid improvement in its reliability from the introduction of more precisely defined sieves with accurately cut slots and the introduction of a mechanical action to the process. After this, a number of devices have entered the market and in mid 1990's, the sieving methodology, the Agtator device was introduced into the Australian grain testing market. Since this time, however, little further development has occurred with mechanical sieving devices despite rapid change within the marketing environment.
Grain Trade Australia (GTA) is the peak industry body and it recognises the benefits of objective assessment of all measured quality parameters. A reference method is required for all Standards but industry allows for any field assessment method to be used providing it correlates to the respective reference method. For Screenings and Unmillable Material assessment in cereals, the documented industry quality standards have as their reference a mechanical device.
So, in this context, SieveMatic was developed to provide a new, innovative and technologically advanced alternative to the existing methods applied to the objective assessment of Screenings and Unmillable Material in grains and pulses. this is a test