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Plant Minsawi, Kuala Kangsar Retrofit from Aug 2024 Stations 8 Figures dated 2026-05-25 Figures Published, not live
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An aerial photograph at sunrise looking across an oil-palm canopy that fills the lower half of the frame, a narrow earth footpath winding through it. The sun sits low on the left horizon under a wide sky that runs from deep navy at the top to warm amber at the horizon, with mist lying in a shallow valley in the middle distance and low hills beyond. In the right third, a palm oil mill: three pale cylindrical storage tanks, a conveyor gantry and a tall chimney trailing a thin plume, catching the first light.

AI software for the palm oil chain

The mill that thinks.

AIREI builds the software that runs a palm oil business — nursery to refinery, mobile and web, retrofitted onto the plant you already own. Five engagements since 2019: a national platform, two mills, a kernel plant, a Congo plantation.

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“World’s first palm oil mill to adopt AI” — The Star, 19 Nov 2024 · See the grading rig on real fruit

The record // one of five

What one 41-year-old mill reported after the retrofit.

All four // The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026 ↗

Oil extraction rate
+1.17 pp

Oil extraction rate. The amber after-rail runs a little past the grey before-rail. 17.85 → 19.02

How this was measured

17.85% to 19.02%, at this mill, against its own before-figure. Your own OER depends on how ripe the fruit arrives. A mill does not control that.

Minsawi Industries, Kuala Kangsar only. The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026 — read the full analysis ↗

Mill headcount
−53%

Mill headcount. The amber after-rail reaches a little under half the grey before-rail. 66 → 31

What changed on the floor

31 people run the plant, down from 66. That is a crew size, not a redundancy count.

Minsawi only. The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026 — read the full analysis ↗

Breakdown hours
−75%

Breakdown hours, monthly average. The amber after-rail reaches about a quarter of the grey before-rail. 12.21 → 3.08

What counts as a breakdown hour

12.21 hours a month down to 3.08. Ask us how we count a breakdown hour.

Minsawi only, monthly average. The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026 — read the full analysis ↗

Reported payback
<2 yrs

Reported payback. A broken amber span inside the two-year window, because the source bounds it without saying where in it it falls. on RM4–5 million invested

Where this figure comes from

Under two years on the RM4–5 million invested, reported by The Star, 19 Nov 2024 and relayed by The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026.

Minsawi only. The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026 — read the full analysis ↗

Who published these four numbers

All four were published in The Edge Malaysia, 25 May 2026, by Joseph Tek Choon Yee, a former chief executive of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association. The mill is named by The Star, 19 Nov 2024. Ask how any of them was measured and we will send it.

AIREI also runs Malaysia’s national certification platform for MPOCC, a kernel crushing plant for IOI Edible Oils in Sandakan, a proof of concept at Sime Darby’s Kempas mill, and MyPalm at a Congo estate. Three closed with a letter from the customer, published in full. The whole track record →

How it fits together

Two things on the plant.
One place the readings live.

Two go onto the mill you already own. One is the software the readings arrive in. One is the record your buyer asks for. Buy any of them on its own.

On the plant · 1 of 2

A.I. Based Smart Palm Oil Mill

Eight stations, ramp to data room, instrumented while the mill keeps running.

Buy this if the question is process control and oil loss. See the eight stations → On the plant · 2 of 2

Unmanned AI FFB Grading

A container beside your ramp, wired to your weighbridge. It reads every bunch and issues the grade at the gate.

Buy this if the question is what you are paying for at intake. See the rig on real fruit → Where the readings live

MyPalm

Six published apps — nursery, dealer, plantation, mill, kernel crushing plant, refinery. It holds what the hardware produces, and it runs on its own without either machine.

Buy this if the question is records, people and cost across sites. See the six apps → Sold on its own · AIREI calls it Supply Chain & Traceability

Traceability

Plot-level origin carried through every handover, nursery to refinery. Add the grading rig and the record starts with a measurement instead of a claim.

Read this if a buyer is asking where your consignment came from. See what a record actually holds →

AIREI sells four products and four services in all. The service lines are on the products page.

A MyPalm Palm Oil Mill screen filling the frame, headed Press Station Abnormal Report. Its columns group digester level, temperature and motor amps under Factors Affecting OER, and temperature under Factors Affecting Quality, each with its own Remarks column, over a row printing the abnormal limit for every parameter. Under a press heading, dated digester rows print their out-of-limit readings in red, and each Remarks cell spells out an instruction to the operator — activating the steam actuator valve in auto mode, and holding the digester level up to avoid higher oil loss. The left navigation carries Dashboard, Maintenance Calendar, Machinery QR Code and the report groups, with Production Abnormalities open.

What the software looks like

A real MyPalm screen. Out-of-limit readings print red, and the Remarks cell names the valve to move and the mode to put it in. That is the difference between a dashboard and a control system. Read the Remarks column and you have checked that sentence yourself.

MyPalm Palm Oil Mill, Press Station Abnormal Report. See the other screens →

A rugged tablet held in two hands on a mill press floor, steam behind it and press machinery beyond. On it, a dark table headed Press Station Abnormal Report. Its columns group digester level, temperature and motor amps under Factors Affecting OER, and temperature under Factors Affecting Quality, each with its own Remarks column and a row above them printing the abnormal limit for every parameter. Under a press heading, dated digester rows print out-of-limit readings in red, and each Remarks cell spells out an instruction to the operator, including activating the steam actuator valve in auto mode and holding the digester level up to avoid higher oil loss.

The same screen, on the press floor

Where it is actually read: a rugged tablet, in two hands, beside the presses it is reporting on.

The chain

One chain. Nursery to refinery.

Six positions, different businesses, one record.

The chain drawn as six numbered positions on one rail — 01 nursery, 02 plantation, 03 dealer, 04 mill, 05 refinery, 06 kernel crushing — with a bracket beneath spanning all six, marked MyPalm. 010203 040506 NURSERYPLANTATIONDEALER MILLREFINERY KERNELCRUSHING MyPalm ONE RECORD, SIX VARIANTS The chain drawn as six numbered positions down one rail — 01 nursery, 02 plantation, 03 dealer, 04 mill, 05 refinery, 06 kernel crushing — with a rule beneath spanning all six, marked MyPalm. 010203 040506 NURSERYPLANTATIONDEALER MILLREFINERYKERNEL CRUSHING MyPalm ONE RECORD, SIX VARIANTS
Read what each position records

Six different businesses, one chain, one record end to end.

01

Nursery

Every plot gets an NFC tag and a permanent record — batch, seed type, sowing and transplant dates, and what was culled.

02

Plantation

Census, harvest and workforce against mapped plot boundaries, with every intervention appended by timestamp and named worker.

03

Dealer

Smallholder intake with polygon maps, so a load arriving at the ramp carries a traceable origin rather than a name on a docket.

04

Mill

Five modules on top of the eight instrumented stations: production, grading, maintenance, laboratory, traceability. Smart Palm Oil Mill Brochure 2026

05

Refinery

Incoming lots arrive with their mill record attached, so the certification status travels with the oil instead of being reconstructed later.

06

Kernel crushing

Press performance and predicted machine failure, flagged per press before the press takes the line down.

All six run on MyPalm — one platform, one record. See the variant matrix ↗

A close view into a heap of harvested oil palm fruit bunches: the fruitlets are deep red shading to purple-black and glossy, packed between dry straw-coloured spikelets and pale cut stalk ends. The nearest bunch is sharp and the heap falls away out of focus behind it.

What the crop is

A ripe bunch is about 25 kilograms of fruit and roughly a fifth of that in oil. How much of it reaches the tank is the entire business.

Filmed at Minsawi

Our machines were filmed
inside a working mill.

AIREI’s own footage, shot at Minsawi Industries in Kuala Kangsar while the plant was running. The grading page shows the rig reading real fruit.

Two machines // one platform

One retrofits the mill. One replaces the eye at the ramp.

A diagram of one mill line. Eight stations, numbered 01 to 08, sit as amber marks along a single steel rail running left to right, from FFB ramp at 01 to data room at 08. A drawn box labelled Unmanned AI FFB Grading, one station, stands above the rail and drops a line onto station 01 alone. An amber bracket beneath the rail spans all eight marks and is labelled AI Smart Mill, all eight stations. A dashed amber line labelled auto-adjust leaves station 08, runs back above the rail and arrows down into station 02, the sterilizer: the loop the mill closes on its own steam flow. UNMANNED AI FFB GRADING ONE STATION 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 FFB RAMP DATA ROOM AUTO-ADJUST AI SMART MILL ALL EIGHT STATIONS The same diagram upright. Eight stations, numbered 01 to 08, sit as amber marks down a single steel rail, from FFB ramp at 01 to data room at 08. A drawn box labelled Unmanned AI FFB Grading, one station, stands at the top and drops a line onto station 01 alone. An amber bracket beside the rail spans all eight marks and is labelled AI Smart Mill, all eight stations. A dashed amber line labelled auto-adjust leaves station 08, runs back down the left of the rail and arrows into station 02, the sterilizer: the loop the mill closes on its own steam flow. UNMANNED AI FFB GRADING ONE STATION 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 FFB RAMP DATA ROOM AUTO-ADJUST AI SMART MILL ALL EIGHT STATIONS
A painted steel control panel bolted to the plant, its nameplate reading i-APR. Along the left face, a red, amber and blue phase-indicating light row, a lit green PB START button beside a dark red TRIP button, and below them a MAN/AUTO selector and a red mushroom emergency stop. Set into the right of the same panel is a touchscreen headed i-APR Screw Press. Its field labels stay sharp — Running Hour, Last Reset Date — but every value beside them, the header date and time, and the two stamps on the trend axis have been blanked to the screen’s own blue. A white box covers one line of the header. A worker in a hi-vis vest, seen from behind with his face out of frame, rests one hand on the screen.

AI Smart Mill

Eight stations on the steel you already own.

Show how the loop closes

Sensors on the sterilizer and the press, plus fruit quality from the weighbridge. The system predicts oil loss, names the reason, and moves steam flow and oil drainage itself. It acts. A dashboard only reports.

  • 01 FFB ramp & weighbridge
  • 02 Sterilizer
  • 03 Digester & press
  • 04 Clarification
  • 05 Kernel plant
  • 06 Boiler
  • 07 CPO storage tank
  • 08 Data room

// Eight is the current operating set.

Open all eight stations ↗
The AIREI unmanned FFB grading unit seen close from the side, filling the frame — a shipping container raised on red-oxide steel legs and a dark roller housing, carrying a black sign lettered UNMANNED AI FFB GRADING in gold capitals across its flank. The intake machinery and the mill shed run off to the left, a yellow access stair stands at the right, and the corrugated roof of a conveyor gallery clips the bottom-right corner.

Unmanned AI FFB Grading

A container that reads every bunch on your ramp.

Show how a bunch is read

Every bunch is graded by camera and model, not by a tired eye at the end of a shift. The graded zones on the grading page are the machine’s own output on a real delivery.

How to get the accuracy figures

// Ask, and we send the accuracy figures with the sample they were measured against.

See the machine ↗

Who the work is built with

Instruments from people your engineers already specify.

AIREI The AIREI layer, drawn as a single amber bus running the width of the plant with a stepped telemetry trace above it. It is the only layer in this drawing that AIREI supplies. Ours
Field instruments Not ours
Your mill A section through the mill you already run, drawn in thin outline on a hatched plinth: a receiving hopper, sterilizer, digester and press, clarification, kernel silo, boiler and stack, CPO storage tank and control room, all hanging off one process header. None of it is supplied by AIREI. Yours

Named, one by one

Our partners
  • Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
  • Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC)
  • Fine Instrument Technology
  • TECNOVA
  • Danfoss
  • KROHNE
  • Endress+Hauser
  • Optimaxx
  • VEGA

Two of these are Malaysian government bodies — MPOB, the industry’s regulator, and MDEC.

What each relationship covers

MDEC partner status and MPOB engagement are both current. MSPO Trace was built for the Malaysian Palm Oil Certification Council, whose chief executive wrote to thank AIREI for completing it on 6 October 2020 — that letter is published in full.

Our clients
  • Sime Darby
  • United Plantations Berhad
  • IOI Group
  • Plantations et Huileries du Congo
  • PHWorld
  • PT Paluta Inti Sawit
  • NLFCS
  • M.I.K.K.
  • PMC
  • SIPEF
  • An orange letter M inside an orange ring
  • PT Angso Duo Sawit
  • A green roundel enclosing an oil palm
  • A green diamond enclosing a yellow emblem above an interlocked letter monogram
  • Simpang Kanan Lestarindo
  • An orange droplet enclosing a green palm frond

IOI Edible Oils and Sime Darby Plantation each sent a signed letter, and both are published whole.

Ask for a reference call. We will put you on the phone with a mill running this today — the track record sets out what each one covered.

AIREI's founder seated at a boardroom table, speaking to camera in front of a projected AIREI slide — a still from the company's brand film.

The founder

Three generations in the estates.

Three generations in palm oil: the founder's forefathers, brought by the British to work in the plantations; both his parents, who served under palm oil organisations; and Surendran himself, born on a palm oil estate. 01 FOREFATHERS 02 PARENTS 03 SURENDRAN

AIREI company profile

A steam ticket makes one named person legally answerable for a mill’s boiler. At AIREI that person owns the company: Surendran has been a certified Grade 1 Steam Engineer under DOSH Malaysia since 2012.

Read the full biography

Mechanical Engineering at UNITEN, then a Masters in Chemical Engineering at UPM. He runs a palm oil mill and a plantation of his own.

On camera, in the company’s brand film.

“I grew up in the estates. Palm oil wasn’t just our business, it was part of my life.”

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