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The Bigger Picture: Long-Term Benefits of Detectable Components

Posted by PLAN Automation Blog on Thu, Dec 17, 2015 @ 16:12 PM

Learn the long term benefits of detectable components. Integrating customized, fully detectable components along a production line is one of the most effective ways for manufacturers to ensure their product quality and safety. Compatible with any installed x-ray and metal detection systems, these components serve as food-safe, easily identifiable replacements for standard production facility tools.

If your business is frequently threatened by product contamination due to “under the radar,” non-detectable components, there’s a good chance component parts such as these can prove valuable in your facilities.

Sure, these parts offer immediate benefits for your production operation, but what about the long-term gains they can bring?

Component parts can do so much more than simplify contaminant detection; they can assure your company’s safety compliance for years to come, and improve the success of your brand with targeted consumers.

Customization Leads to Optimized Detectability

Customizable components can be form-fitted to your production’s exact needs. Whatever size, color or material composition works best for your manufacturing tasks, these components can be specifically created to match those parameters.

Inspection systems often vary from industry to industry, and occur at variable points in a production. Detectable components can be made compatible with x-ray inspection systems or conventional metal detectors; whatever systems your company uses to ensure product safety, components can be custom made to work in tandem.

Food-safe components can be made from:

  • Steel
  • Rubber
  • Plastic
  • Silicone
  • Various polymers

This customizability optimizes component visibility to x-ray and metal detection equipment, and helps manufacturers assure that small contaminant parts do not go unnoticed in their products.

What Components Mean for Compliance

With food-safe components and optimal detection as part of your production process, you can begin to see improvements in other areas of your company, beyond just increased detection capability; one of these areas is your business’s compliance with various food contact and safety standards.

Fully x-ray or metal detectable components, made by companies such as Detectamet and Rubber Fab Technologies, are compliant with standards in food handling, production and safety.

If one of these components finds its way onto your production line and comes in direct contact with your products, you will not have to throw away those products. Today’s detectable components are 100% food-safe, and compliant with safety standards around the globe.

What does this mean for your business? You will never have to worry about losing products or receiving fines for product contamination. Detectable components ensure regulatory compliance more reliably than inspection systems themselves, which leads to an overall quality boost in the products you create.

Naturally, overall improved compliance and product safety lead to the most lucrative benefit these components bring to businesses around the world: financial growth and ROI.

Financial Gains and Growing Your Brand

Fully detectable component parts, which replace existing equipment contaminants in various industries, help manufacturers avoid expensive product recalls and virtually eliminate material waste on the production floor.

You can use detectable components to replace almost all common contaminants found in manufacturing and food processing environments, from ID tags and stationery to scrapers, O-rings and tiny bearings. Doing so minimizes the potential of these objects finding their way into product batches and compromising quality, which can help you avoid devastating recalls down the line.

These components offer clear ROI from the moment they’re implemented, and can also lead to decreases in labor costs and operating needs. With these parts integrated in your production facilities, you will never again have to throw away materials or products due to contamination.

Optimizing your inspection processes and product safety with components such as these, and generating savings from improved detection, all lead to one thing: positive growth for your products and brand.

Companies that integrate detectable components throughout their production lines can expect higher overall customer satisfaction with their products, no matter at what point in production detection systems are used.

Detectable components, fitted with metal and/or x-ray detectable strips, can be reliably identified even after packaging; they’re the ultimate solution for eliminating the risks of equipment contamination, at all points in a production line.

If your business has difficulty assuring product safety with any of the following, you should give fully detectable, customizable components their due consideration:

  • Products in aluminum pans or sanitation equipment
  • Contamination during packaging, and even after packaging
  • Loose product processing lines
  • Sealed container contamination

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