Plan Automation Technology Blog

Customer complaints are a fact of life for pretty much any business. Even in the packaged food industry, where direct interaction with the end user is rare, customer complaints still occur.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection, Product Quality

Historically, x-ray product inspection machines have been excellent at detecting foreign bodies in products, with a few notable limitations. Some of these limitations included:

Topics: Product Quality, X Ray Inspection for Food

X-ray product inspection systems have been a staple of the quality assurance process for the food industry for a while now. The normal use of these machines is to check products for foreign contaminants such as:

Topics: X Ray Inspection of Meat

One of the historical weaknesses of x-ray inspection technologies was that such systems typically have a hard time dealing with bulk products that have inconsistent shapes, such as tree nuts, packaged grains, granola, sugar, cereals, and coffee.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

In an earlier post, we discussed how to choose the best Critical Control Points (CCPs) to install your product inspection equipment at to spot contaminants in your company’s products. This is a key step in ensuring that your production facility is HACCP-compliant and avoiding sending out contaminated goods to the mass market.

Topics: Food Inspection, HACCP

Detectable components are great tools for reducing your contamination risk in your food production process.

Topics: Metal Detection, Metal Detection Technology, detectable components

Food contamination is a constant threat in the food industry. The mere thought of having to deal with a product recall and the PR backlash that comes with it has been known to keep food manufacturers up at night.

Topics: Metal Detection, X-Ray Inspection, detectable components

As a technology for ensuring top-class quality control, x-ray product inspection has become increasingly popular in the last few years. Over time, the technology has been refined and improved constantly, creating new types of x-ray machines that can detect many different contaminants.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection, X Ray Inspection Technology

Food safety is an enormous concern for the public. Contaminated food products pose a grave risk to the health of millions around the world, so food contamination stories naturally grasp the attention of the public.

Topics: Food Safety and Quality Inspection, BRC, HACCP

Since the early 1990s, manufacturers of packaged food all around the world have relied on x-ray inspection technology to detect the presence of potentially harmful foreign bodies in their food products and packaging.

Topics: Product Quality, X Ray Inspection for Food, MDX