Plan Automation Technology Blog

For years now, x-ray product inspection systems have been a trusted inspection technology for the packaged food industry.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

When dealing with poultry, ensuring the complete and safe removal of chicken bones from your products is an enormous challenge. Between the wish bone, the rib bones, and the fan bone, there are many small and fragile skeletal structures in this land fowl that can shatter and get stuck in the meat.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

In previous posts, we’ve discussed the benefits of metal detectors and of   x-ray inspection machines for quality assurance. Each type of product inspection equipment has its own benefits and drawbacks, and both technologies have continued to improve over time, with inspection machines becoming more capable.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

Sometimes, perception of the amount of product in a package is just as important as the actual weight content of the package. When a customer opens up a bag of, say, potato chips and sees that the package is less than half full, they’re not going to be pleased, even if the package has the right content weight.

Topics: X-Ray Inspection

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

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

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

Making sure that food products are safe and free of contamination is a huge concern for all food producers large or small.

Topics: Metal Detection, Product Safety, X-Ray Inspection, Product Quality, X Ray Inspection for Food, Product Inspection