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Eduardo Kropnick joined Banco de España (BdE) in December 2002 and developed his career in the Cash and Issue Department, where he currently holds the position of Cash Circulation Technology Unit Manager. He is in charge of all the technical questions related to the machinery used at the BdE for processing banknotes and coins.
Eduardo has dedicated a lot of his effort to the study and improvement of the fitness sorting of banknotes at the National Central Bank and has been BdE’s representative in several Eurosystem working groups related to used banknotes sorting and machine-readable security features.
Eduardo worked for 10 years at the Spanish security printing works - Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre - Real Casa de la Moneda (FMNT - RCM) - from November 1992 until he moved to Banco de España in December 2002.
Eduardo studied Industrial Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
This presentation will show how machine learning techniques can be used in National Central Banks (NCBs) to check the efficiency of the fitness sorting carried out in the sorting machines. Eduardo will present a software tool, currently in development at the BdE, aimed at the analysis of small samples of banknotes sorted out as fit or unfit by the high-speed sorting machines. This tool can help to determine the amount of unfit notes that are sorted out as fit and the amount of unfit notes that are prematurely shredded, and thereby to establish whether the fitness sorting operations in NCBs need optimising.