Operation aid apparatus for grain milling facility and grain milling facility

An operation aid apparatus for a grain milling facility including a rice milling machine and a color sorter,

• the grain milling facility including a brown rice tank configured to supply brown rice to the rice milling machine, the brown rice tank being connected with a branch pipe, so that most of the brown rice supplied to the brown rice tank is supplied to the rice milling machine while a part of the brown rice is supplied to the branch pipe,
• the operation aid apparatus comprising:
• an inspection machine connected to an end portion of the branch pipe opposite from the brown rice tank and supplied with a part of the brown rice through the branch pipe, the inspection machine being configured to measure first information regarding characteristics of the brown rice that should be processed in the grain milling facility,
• a first acquisition portion configured to acquire the first information acquired by the inspection machine;
• a second acquisition portion configured to acquire second information regarding an evaluation of a sorting result acquired by milling first brown rice by the rice milling machine and sorting them by the color sorter after that, the second information being associated with the first information regarding the first brown rice;
• and
• a setting portion configured to determine an operation parameter for processing second brown rice by the rice milling machine based on the first information regarding the second brown rice that should be newly processed in the grain milling facility and the second information associated with the first information regarding the first brown rice,
• the first acquisition portion and the second acquisition portion being configured to gradually accumulate the first information and the second information in association with each other every time brown rice in one lot is processed in the grain milling facility, and
• the setting portion being configured to determine the operation parameter so as to be able to acquire a highest yield ratio.