X-Ray Systems
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A&D Inspection
A&D Inspection manufactures checkweighing, X-ray inspection, and metal detection equipment for packaging applications in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical and other industries. In-motion checkweighers include the 600g, a model that can process up to 400 pieces per minute with an overall system length under 3 ft. The ProteX Series of x-ray inspectors uses advanced algorithms in a compact design to provide inspection for contaminants such as metals and bone fragments, but also consumer quality issues, such as clumps, missing or damaged product, and broken seals. A&D Inspection's metal detector line includes several models, among them the DeteX series, with high sensitivity and washdown rating as well as heavy-duty metal detectors with carrying load capacity of up to 150 lb. for applications requiring direct food contact (i.e., cheese, dairy, meat, poultry and fish).
Accutek Packaging Equipment Co.
The Accutek Inspection-Rejection Station system is designed to perform comprehensive inspections on various aspects of product packaging. It utilizes advanced technology to detect and reject containers that do not meet specific criteria. The system checks the orientation of containers to ensure they are positioned correctly, identifying and rejecting containers that are upside down or not aligned properly. The system also verifies the fill levels in containers, ensuring they meet the required standards, detecting overfilled or underfilled containers and reject them accordingly. Other applications include metal or contaminants in the product, whereby Accutek's system employs sensors or imaging technology to identify the presence of metallic objects, contaminants or foreign substances in the product. The system also examines the placement and alignment of caps on containers for skewed caps, missing caps, missing foil liners, crooked or missing labels.
ANRITSU - Product Inspection & Detection
Anritsu’s line of packaging inspection equipment includes X-ray equipment, checkweighers, and metal detectors. X-ray inspection Systems are designed to give food and pharmaceutical producers the best combination of contaminant detection, reliability, and low total cost of ownership. Beyond detection, systems provide missing product, shape detection, virtual weight, count, and package check. Ensure product quality and determine weight with Anritsu’s precision inline checkweighers, engineered for product safety, productivity, and excellent return on investment while ensuring compliance with HACCP programs, all in a compact footprint. Detect ferrous and stainless metals simultaneously with Anritsu’s advanced Dual Wave metal detector solutions. Company also offers the SSV checkweigher and metal detector combination systems to provide outstanding weighing accuracy with simultaneous multi-frequency inspection to help find the smallest contaminant.
Bizerba USA, Inc.
Bizerba USA is an original equipment manufacturer of a broad range of packaging inspection equipment, including checkweighers, metal detectors, X-ray systems and vision inspection systems. Featured inspection systems include the CWFmaxx line of checkweighers, mainly used in food processing companies who have to meticulously clean their systems. The stainless steel housing is suitable for use in hygienic environments. All components are easy to access, so that they can be thoroughly cleaned. The shape is designed to prevent the accumulation of dirt.
Eagle Product Inspection
Eagle’s extensive range of x-ray product inspection solutions include x-ray inspection systems, complete systems and inline fat analysis technologies to enhance physical contamination detection and quality inspection capabilities for manufacturers worldwide. With customized solutions tailored to customers’ specific product inspection and application requirements, systems offer a cost-effective solution to avoid product recalls and customer complaints.
Flexible Vision
Flexible Vision offers advanced machine vision solutions tailored for food packaging inspection. Their technology helps detect common issues such as label damage, placement errors, defects, liquid coloration variance, and even contamination. By using AI-powered systems, they ensure precise inspection of seal integrity, liquid levels, and overall packaging quality. These solutions improve efficiency and accuracy in quality control processes, reducing waste and ensuring compliance with safety standards. Flexible Vision’s systems can be seamlessly integrated into production lines, allowing real-time monitoring and automated inspection without the need for extensive programming or manual oversight.
Fortress Technology Inc.
Fortress Technology is an inspection equipment manufacturer specializing in metal detectors, checkweighers, and combination systems for food processing and packaging lines. Fortress systems can be custom designed to suit any application and are developed with a Never Obsolete guarantee that ensures longevity.
Heat and Control, Inc.
Package testing and contaminant detection technology from Heat and Control helps protect the consumer and equipment. Featured models include metal detectors from CEIA, inline seal checkers and X-ray inspection systems from Ishida, and checkweighers from CEIA and Ishida. Heat and Control also distributes CEIA’s specialty metal detection systems for pharmaceutical applications. Not only is efficient detection of foreign objects critical to consumer safety and brand survival, but it also protects machinery and prevents downtime.
HEUFT USA Inc
Heuft manufactures a full line of inspection equipment for products as well as for full or empty containers used in the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. Highlighted equipment at the Heuft website includes the HEUFT ONE, an entry-level detection system for checking full beverage containers in a confined space. The system detects and evaluates bottles for precise fill level, closures, labels, and other criteria. Heuft inspection systems for empty food containers include the HEUFT canLine II, which detects faulty cans before they are filled and rejects them before they can affect the productivity of complete food lines and the safety of the end product. HEUFT eXaminer II XB for pharma applications features pulsed X-ray technology that can detect minute foreign particles, bent hypodermic needles, incomplete or incorrectly packaged tablets, as well as quality defects in containers, syringes and blister packs.
JBT Corporation-FoodTech Division
JBT’s line of JBT XVision™ X-ray inspection machines handle a wide variety of applications in food packaging operations. Using JBT’s proprietary Critical Control Point X-ray (CCPX™) technology, JBT XVision™ systems are simple to maintain and easy to operate. Models include the XVision CCPX-Pack Curtainless X-ray Inspection System, for contaminant detection of foil stick packs and the XVision FlexScan, a flexible modular technology platform designed for contaminant detection in wet or dry production environments.
Loma Systems, an ITW Company
Loma Systems designs and manufactures a wide range of metal detection, X-ray inspection, checkweigher and combination inspection systems for the food, pharmaceutical and packaging industries. LOMA's inspection systems identify product defects and eliminate contaminants, delivering consistent quality and are compliant with international safety standards and Retailers’ Codes of Practice. The IQ3+E Metal Detector range is designed for conveyorized, pumped and gravity fed applications for meat, poultry and fish, bakery, convenience foods, snacks and more. X-ray systems include the X5C, LOMA's smallest X-ray system available, with a machine length of 1000 mm and excellent Critical Control Point (CCP), designed for inspecting food, ready meals and small packaged goods. Loma’s CW3 RUN-WET® checkweigher is engineered to withstand harsh, high-pressure, high-temperature cleaning regimes in high-care food environments. Loma’s integrated combination systems offer inspection and weighing all in one machine, with the option of a system combining either metal detection or X-ray inspection capabilities along with dynamic checkweighing.
METTLER TOLEDO Product Inspection
Mettler Toledo’s broad range of product inspection systems includes checkweighers, metal detectors, x-ray inspection systems, track and trace systems, vision inspection, and more. Systems are made for all types of bulk and packaged products for environments ranging from dry to harsh wash-down and can detect solid contaminants, verify product weights, mark and verify packages, ensure accuracy and integrity of packaging and labels, confirm component content, inspect closures, and measure fill levels.
Peco InspX
Peco InspX manufactures innovative and reliable inspection systems leveraging the latest in technology and software algorithms. Products are solution driven for all industries, package types and contaminants. Across a range of product and package considerations, X-ray inspection is the most effective, efficient and reliable means of ensuring that product and packages have not been compromised. Peco InspX’s 60 years in package inspection has built on strength after strength. Peco InspX’s ScanTrac X-ray Inspection Equipment confirms contents, detects foreign material, calculates volumetric fill levels and identifies container defects -- for packaged and unpackaged products.
PPi Technologies Group
PROFILE Packaging and PakSource Global offer a full range of checkweighers including metal detectors and combination metal detectors/check weighing systems as well as a full range of X-ray machines for both flexible and ridged packaging.
Sesotec Inc
Sesotec offers X-ray inspection systems and metal detection systems for food processing and plastics manufacturing operations. Wide range of products includes inspection systems for contaminants in processing and packaging lines on conveyor lines, liquid and paste contaminant detectors, magnet systems for free-falling applications, liquid and paste contaminant detectors and many more. Tunnel metal detectors enclose a conveyor belt, while flat metal detectors are attached underneath conveyor belts or chutes. They detect metallic contaminants, regardless of the metal type and whether the contaminant is exposed or embedded in the product.
Teledyne Taptone
TapTone manufactures a broad range of inspection equipment including package integrity and fill level detection systems. Leak, vacuum, and pressure sensors are designed for inspecting flexible and rigid plastic, metal, and glass containers. Featured seal integrity systems include the patented TapTone Seal Integrity Tester (SIT) for cup filling lines, consisting of multiple sensors mounted inside the cup filling system that inspect each cup by compressing the sensor head to the foil lid of the cup at full production machine speeds. Fill_xr is a fill level inspection system designed to detect overfill and underfill inspection on one sensor; it runs accurate fill level inspection at production line speeds and features a cantilever design that requires no line modifications.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Assuring food safety and quality are essential to consumer safety and brand reputation. Thermo Fisher Scientific supplies product detection technologies including X-ray inspection systems and metal detectors for the food industry to support its customers food safety and quality goals and meet regulatory requirements and retailer codes of practice. Drive out variability and drive up ROI with precision Versa checkweighers. Value-packed combination systems feature integrated metal detectors on Thermo Fisher Scientific checkweighers.
Wipotec
WIPOTEC-OCS provides high performance, process and customer-orientated weighing and inspection solutions. Stand-alone weighing and OEM integration solutions are tailored exactly to machine and line requirements, with primary target industries in the consumer packaged goods/food, healthcare, and mail and logistics sectors. Company’s E-M-A checkweigher portfolio is designed to run accurately at top speeds, for high throughputs and increased packaging line efficiency. WIPOTEC-OCS metal detectors, which can be used standalone or in combination with check weighing systems, reliably detect any contamination of products by the finest metal particles. X-ray inspection systems include the SC-E, designed to meet the most stringent requirements of foreign body detection. With an optional comprehensive software package, the scanner becomes versatile for numerous applications, and reliably performs count, completeness, fill-level checks, and mass determination.
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Explore the functionality and benefits of X-Ray Systems, which are crucial for detecting foreign substances in various applications, enhancing safety and compliance in product handling.
X-Ray Systems are specialized machines that emit x-rays to detect the presence of foreign substances or objects within other materials. These systems are integral in maintaining quality and safety standards across multiple industries by ensuring that products are free from unwanted contaminants. The technology is particularly vital in environments where purity and compliance with safety regulations are paramount.
The working mechanism of X-Ray Systems involves the emission of x-rays through products on a conveyor belt or similar setup. As these x-rays pass through the items, a detector on the opposite side captures the x-rays that emerge. Different materials absorb x-rays at different rates, which allows the system to create a contrast image. This image is then analyzed by software to detect anomalies that indicate the presence of a foreign object.
X-Ray Systems are employed in a variety of settings. In the food industry, they are used to ensure that products are free from metal, glass, stones, and other contaminants that could pose a risk to consumer health. In pharmaceuticals, these systems verify that packaging is secure and that the contents are uncontaminated. Additionally, X-Ray Systems are used in the electronics industry to inspect components and assemblies for integrity and correct placement.
The benefits of using X-Ray Systems include enhanced safety and compliance with regulatory standards. By detecting contaminants and defects early in the production process, these systems help prevent potentially hazardous products from reaching the consumer market. This not only protects consumers but also shields manufacturers from potential recalls and legal issues. Furthermore, X-Ray Systems contribute to overall process efficiency by reducing waste and minimizing the need for manual inspection.
For professionals seeking to implement or upgrade their detection capabilities, exploring various suppliers and manufacturers of X-Ray Systems is advisable. PMMI's ProSource directory offers a comprehensive list of providers who specialize in these technologies. This resource can assist in comparing different systems and finding the right equipment to meet specific operational needs.