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How to Lower Your Contamination Risk with Detectable Components

Posted by PLAN Automation Blog on Thu, Feb 19, 2015 @ 08:02 AM

Avoid your risk with Plan Automation's technologyControlling and limiting contamination risk during manufacturing is a critical step in any production process. Whether your facilities use x-ray inspection solutions or metal detection to assess product quality, there are still inherent risks for contamination along production lines.

While you can always better train your employees or limit loose manufacturing equipment at the floor-level, one of the most effective ways to lower your risk is by integrating detectable components throughout your facilities. If you make manufacturing hardware and tools fully detectable by your inspection systems, you eliminate the risk of accidental contamination.

The Range of Materials Covered by Detectable Components

Today, detectable components are used by manufacturers to replace standard materials at virtually all levels of production, and are made from a variety of materials that can tackle your industry’s specific weaknesses. Whether your facilities call for steel, silicone, plastic or rubber materials, detectable components can help you limit the production risks posed by contamination, material breakage and fragmenting.

Fully detectable materials are custom-made to replace conventional production hardware, essentially eliminating accidental contamination risks posed by:

  • O-rings

  • Quad rings

  • Gaskets

  • Cable and cable clamps

  • Hairnets

  • Hose

  • Boards

  • Gloves

  • Cable ties

  • Plastic IDs and tags

  • Rubber bands or fragments

  • Stretch wrap

  • Pens and touch screen styluses

  • Band-aids

  • Studs

  • Paddles and scrapers

  • Tubing

  • Pillow blocks

  • Guides

Modern components are often custom-formed to specific facility parameters. Whatever the needs of your production facilities are, detectable components can be specially made to lower your product contamination risks, and ultimately protect your brand.

More Than Just Contamination Risk Management

Detectable rubber, silicone, steel or plastic components are specifically designed to set off inspection system sensors, and protect your products and brand by limiting accidental material contamination. Beyond face-value benefits to risk mitigation, these customizable materials are made to USDA and FDA requirements, and make quality assurance simple for manufacturers across almost limitless industries.

No matter what kind of product inspection systems you have installed in your facilities or what types of materials you work with, detectable components can help you ensure the safety of your products. Fully detectable materials are ideal for any industry where product quality and customer safety are a direct concern, including:

  • Food and beverage

  • Meat, poultry and fish

  • Animal/pet food

  • Consumer goods

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Cosmetics

  • Textiles

Practice food safetyFood-safe components, such as those made by Detectamet, can be automatically detected by all metal or x-ray inspection systems, even with products and industries where visual detection is not possible. Detectable components are made with either metallic trace elements or detectable plastics, depending on your production’s specific requirements. During any end-of-line, quality assurance process, small materials, metal fragments and manufacturing hardware always pose risks.

By incorporating fully detectable materials and components along your production lines, you significantly limit these risks and assure the safety of your products with far more reliability than you would with standard materials in your facilities.

Assuring product quality according to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) standards is common practice in a majority of production industries that work directly with consumables and produce consumable goods. Detectable plastic, metal, silicone and rubber components make meeting standards such as these simple, and assure product safety far more reliably than with standard materials.

These components go beyond product quality improvement, and can actually save your brand from common customer complaints, recalls and product loss. In food, pharmaceutical and other consumable production industries, customer satisfaction and safety is more than a focus; it’s a requirement. Detectable component products make ensuring the quality of your products easy, and can almost entirely eliminate your risks for contamination.

This leads to better use of your company’s time and labor, as quality concerns become a non-issue. To overcome the traditional, everyday material hazards that are considered a harsh truth of manufacturing consider integrating detectable components in your facility. 

Let one of PLAN Automation's specialists help you with your detectable component needs by contacting us here.

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