Miller Magazine Issue: 123 March 2020

52 MILLER / MARCH 2020 “People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on mar- ket research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.” Steve Jobs said. Wheat flour technology companies which have a vision of being a leader in the sector and have real R&D works but new missions like “light off mills” or using Industry 4.0 in their products which means in other words intelligent mills. These mills are fully digitalized and many companies devote huge budgets to innovative projects and incorporate digital technologies into their machines to achieve “light of mills” mission. If someone asks me about my imagination of the smart mill, I will say that it has to produce flour of a certain customer without any human intervention. This means that the mill has a big database include all mill parameters for example requirements of customers, quality characteris- tics of wheat that are in the mill silos and has ability to produce that flour from wheats by reg- If someone asks me about my imagination of the smart mill, I will say that it has to produce flour of a certain customer without any human intervention. This means that the mill has a big database include all mill parameters. AI mill systems have the potential to bring greater advantage to the production process. Miller has to know that the investments in new automation and digitalized systems is more efficient and profitable than conventional mill system. Artificial intelligent milling system Prof. Farhan Alfin Prof. Dr. Farhan Alfin is working as a production supervisor at Darıca Flour Mill, Trabzon, Turkey. He obtained his Ph.D. from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey, from the Department of Food Engineering in 2000. He worked at Avrasya University, Trabzon from 2005 to 2019 and held the position of Head of the Food Engineering Department. He worked at Albaath University in Homs City, Syria at the food engineering department from 2000 to 2015, and he held the position of head of the department from 2006 to 2010. During that period, he offered his consultancy and education services to several flour mills in Syria. On another level, he worked as the executive manager of Alakhras Mill in rural Homs from 2009 to 2015. He is also the author of “Cereal Milling Technology” book written in the Arabic language.