Pulsed x-ray foreign object inspection for food packaging
Ensure your packaged goods are free from dangerous contaminants with compact, precise x-ray inspection technology designed for tight spaces and high-speed operations.
Detects Foreign Objects in Packaging
The HEUFT eXaminer II XS is an innovative foreign object detection system designed for beverage, food, and pharmaceutical packaging. It stands out with its compact design, making it ideal for limited spaces within high-speed production lines. Employing pulsed X-ray technology, it inspects items such as juice bottles, milk cartons, and liquid medicine vials for contaminants like metal fragments and hard plastics.
This system offers continuous monitoring with dual X-ray strobe coverage, ensuring thorough inspection from base to fill line without blind spots. It integrates seamlessly into production processes, with an intuitive human-machine interface enabling easy operation and quick format changes, enhancing operational efficiency.
Its energy-efficient design minimizes radiation exposure while maximizing detection reliability. The HEUFT eXaminer II XS also supports real-time product tracking and fault rejection through HEUFT’s network technologies, ensuring complete quality assurance and reducing product recalls. To maintain high safety and efficiency standards, it complies with industry-specific regulations and offers optional function expansions tailored to specific production requirements.
Benefits
- Ensures product safety and quality by detecting foreign objects in all packaging areas.
- Operates efficiently in high-speed lines, maintaining inspection accuracy without slowing production.
- Minimizes operational costs with energy-efficient pulsed X-ray technology.
- Simplifies maintenance and reduces downtime with robust, self-explanatory user guidance.
- Delivers real-time monitoring and remote support for proactive fault management and minimal production disruptions.
- Applications
- Food,Beverages,Stand-up pouches,Composite packaging,Squeeze bottles,Food cans,Pharmaceutical products
- End products
- Ready-to-eat meal trays,Sauce packets,Milk cartons,Soft drink cans,Liquid medicine vials,Tea sachets,Juice bottles,Vitamin bottles,Protein powder pouches,Infant formula cans
- Steps before
- Filling,Packaging
- Steps after
- Rejection of faulty containers,Fill level detection,Label checking,Closure checking
- Input ingredients
- squeeze bottles,composite packaging,food cans,stand-up pouches,full containers
- Output ingredients
- containers without foreign objects,defect-free products,inspected containers,faulty products removed
- Market info
- HEUFT is known for its expertise in inline quality inspection systems and automation solutions for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, with a reputation for innovation and reliability in ensuring product safety and integrity.
- Detection type
- X-ray
- Automation
- Highly automated
- Compact footprint
- Space-saving
- Detection reliability
- Maximum
- Fill level detection
- Initial detection
- X-ray pulse emission
- Pulsed X-ray
- Contour inspection
- Dynamic compensation
- Sidewall inspection
- Double X-ray pulse
- Line speed
- Adaptive
- X-ray image processing
- Real-time
- Working mechanism
- Pulsed X-ray technology
- Integrated steps
- Product monitoring and self-tests
- CIP/SIP
- Not specified
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Highly automated
- Energy efficiency
- Reduced TCO
- Changeover time
- Automatic adjustment during brand and format changes
- Cleaning method
- Manual intervention with audiovisual guidance
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Container type
- Bottles / Cans / Pouches
- Container size
- Squeeze / Stand-up pouch
- Foreign object types
- Metal / Stone / Hard plastic
- Packaging type
- Composite / Food cans
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Integration space
- Space-saving
- Casing design
- Compact,hygienic
- X-ray strobe positioning
- Optimally positioned
- Compact footprint
- Yes
- Conveyor integration
- Directly at conveyor
- Control panel type
- HEUFTSPECTRUMII control terminal
- Integration possibilities
- Flexible positioning at the conveyor
- Compact footprint
- Extremely space-saving design
- Discharge method
- Automatic rejection system