A finished product, especially food, even if packaged by reliable machines and materials, can be vulnerable to defects and contaminants. These impurities can be either ferrous or non-ferrous (including organic bodies). A company that aims towards making reliable products needs to timely and thoroughly inspect and correct its products before, during, and post-production.
Inspections can be done manually, which is often inefficient. But there are also specially designed machines that inspect products for contaminants and other flaws. And there are several packaging companies that make their own machines.
Loma Systems is one such company, and offers its latest innovation LOMA X5C, an X-ray equipped next-generation IQ4 metal detector to detect ferrous and non-ferrous contaminants in finished products.
Apart from meeting common inspection challenges, LOMA X5C provides its clients – mostly based in the food industry – with robustness, performance, usability, flexibility, and quality.
How Does It Work?
The X-rays for radiographing are generated by an electric X-ray tube. A line-shaped detector that measures the inbound radiation is positioned above the conveyor belt. X-rays have high energy densities and are thus able to penetrate solid objects. Depending on the density of the inspected object, the X-rays, when passing through the product, are attenuated to a higher or lower degree. The detector then converts the remaining radiation into an electrical signal, and density differences of the inspected object are captured on film.
The higher the density of a material, the darker its representation on the X-ray image, and vice versa. The image processing software detects the contrast differences in the image, highlights the contaminants or the missing products/filling, and outputs a corresponding signal.
Why LOMA XC5
LOMA XC5 offers a 30% reduction in cost, weighs less, and can detect glass, calcified bone, rubber, stone as well as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and also stainless steel contaminants.
Its X-rays can penetrate through a maximum of 30 cm width and 10 cm height, making it ideal for use in the food industry.
It also offers heightened security with its Lock PH Pharmaceutical Metal Detector and TRACS, an advanced device for data management and reporting for plants to better understand its product inspection performance and trends. Its multi-level password protected security layers work against individual operators, keeping the entire process safe.
With these and many more unique features, LOMA XC5 is set to give its competitor a tough time in the food and packaging industry.
