Integrated Product Inspection Solutions

A checkweighing and x-ray inspection combination system is made up of two product inspection systems - a checkweigher and an x-ray detector. These systems work together to check for accurate weight, foreign contamination, and quality control inspection including completeness checks.

The inline x-ray inspection system can detect and reject products contaminated with foreign objects such as glass, metal, plastic, high-density rubber and calcified bone from the production line, which in turn can protect consumers, safeguard brand reputation, minimize the risk of expensive product recalls, and assist with regulatory compliance.

The inline checkweigher checks that each product on the line meets the minimum weight requirement to comply with global weights and measures regulations and helps to minimize costly product giveaway.

By using a combination x-ray and checkweighing inspection system, you protect your customer and your brand while saving valuable space on your product line. METTLER TOLEDO’s checkweighing and x-ray inspection combination systems are all-in-one inline solutions made for products up to 10kg, for fast weight data capture and reliable detection of foreign bodies. Sophisticated product handling options available on the checkweigher can be used to guide products of all shapes and sizes safely through the heavy curtain of the x-ray.

Additional benefits include:

• Separate rejection of under- and overweight products and products with foreign body contamination
• High sensitivity detection of small-sized contaminants such as shards of glass, small pieces of metal, calcified bone, and high-density rubber and plastic
• Ideal for use as a Critical Control Point (CCP) in production and packaging lines
• Reduces product waste and helps with meeting compliance requirements with global regulatory standards
• MID certifiable and highly customizable

Product handling plays a critical role for inline checkweighing because true precision weighing can only be carried out if products are smoothly transported across the weighing conveyor. In addition, guiding tall or lightweight products safely through the heavy curtain of an x-ray inspection system can prove difficult due to risk of tipping over.

Combining the x-ray system with a checkweigher allows you to use the product handling options available with the checkweigher to safely secure your item prior to it passing through the x-ray system.

METTLER TOLEDO Garvens and Hi-Speed Checkweighers offer an immense range of highly sophisticated and future-resistant product handling options which are specifically designed to manage manufacturers’ ever-evolving packaging types.

METTLER TOLEDO offers a diverse range of checkweighing x-ray inspection combination product inspection systems, comprised of our C35 Checkweigher in combination with one of the following x-ray inspection systems:

X33
Designed for ease-of-use, the X33 safeguards consumers and brands with its high detection capabilities and helps reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with a low energy consumption. The X33 is a compact, easy-to-use, high level detection x-ray solution ideal for single-lane inspection.

X34:
Designed for high throughput, single lane applications, the X34 provides the ultimate in product safety with a minimal False Reject Rate (FRR). It offers automated product set-up coupled with intelligent software to maximize production uptime, reduce manufacturing costs, and enhance detection sensitivity.

X36:
The X36 system consistently provides the highest levels of contaminant detection sensitivity while simultaneously performing a number of brand protection quality checks such as Product in Seal Detection.

In addition, all x-ray quality inspections are completed using only 1/5^th the energy used by traditional x-ray systems.

A checkweighing metal detection combination system is made up of both a checkweigher and a metal detector.

Metal detection systems are used within the food and pharma processing industries to identify products that are contaminated with metal, safely removing them from the production line before they leave the factory and reach the end consumer.

Checkweighers are used to check that each product on the line meets the minimum weight requirement to comply with global weights and measures regulations and helps to minimize costly product giveaway. They can also be used to carry out completeness checks.

The checkweighing and metal detection combination system combines the Critical Control Point (CCP) via the metal detector with the weight check functionality of the checkweigher, for compliance with retailer standards and weights and measures legislations. The combination of these two technologies offers convenience and value with a smaller footprint than two individual machines.

Benefits of these combination systems include:

• Reduction of product waste and compliance with global regulatory standards
• MID-certifiable and highly customizable
• Ideal for use as an inline Critical Control point (CCP)
• Two HMI operating terminals which can run independently from each other
• Separate rejection of under- and overweight products and metal-contaminated products
• Very high sensitivity to all metal types, including the difficult-to-detect non-magnetic stainless steel
• Metal detector offers products clustering features for faster product changeover
• Small overall footprint ideal for smaller production areas

METTLER TOLEDO offers the highly accurate C35 Checkweigher in combination with our family of reliable and simple-to-use Profile metal detectors, which are ideally suited to detect ferrous, non-ferrous, stainless steel and aluminum particles.

The Profile LS
A compact metal detector for use in simple applications where space is limited. The Profile LS Combi provides effective metal detection in dry, wet, and harsh environments.

The Profile
This metal detector offers multi, ultra-high and tuned frequency operation for the highest detection sensitivity for dry products. A product clustering feature minimizes downtime from product changeover.

The Profile RZ
A metal detector that incorporates Zero Metal Free Zone (ZMFZ) technology to achieve the smallest possible footprint while offering increased sensitivity. Tuned frequency maximizes detection performance.

The Profile Advantage
A proven system that incorporates Multi Simultaneous Frequency (MSF) technology for up to 50% improved sensitivity in challenging inspection applications. MSF and Product Signal Suppression overcome product effect in applications that are wet, warm, cooling, chilled or where products are packed in metallized film, minimizing false rejects.

Checkweigher and metal detection combination systems are suitable for virtually any product inspection environment, regardless of whether your products are wet, dry, chilled, frozen.

Product inspection systems with integrated checkweighing and vision inspection combines label and package integrity checks with on-target weight and completeness checks. This combination system can continuously detect defective products, monitor for accurate certified weights, check for incorrect labeling and intact packaging, and verify critical printed information such as allergy information, bar codes or 2D datamatrix codes.

The vision inspection station works to check products for correct label, expiration date, lot / batch numbers, and labeling defects. It can inspect the surfaces of a wide range of product and label types and sizes.

The checkweighers is used to check that each product on the line meets the minimum weight requirement to comply with global weights and measures regulations and helps to minimize costly product giveaway.

Both system components are accessed through a user-friendly touchscreen interface and offer the convenience of simple product setup. A statistics module provides real time data for maximum production uptime.

The importance of accurate and informative labeling in the food and pharma sector is becoming increasingly important as information such as allergens and ingredient lists are ever more critical to the health and safety of consumers.

Reported incidents involving recalls due to incorrect or incomplete labels have led to calls for greater consistency and more extensive listing of allergens on food labels, which in turn requires more rigorous quality controls for monitoring the accuracy of labels.

The checkweighing and vision combination system from METTLER TOLEDO combines weight monitoring with quality control checks and offers the following benefits:

• Small, space-saving footprint
• Reduction of product waste and compliance with global weights and measures legislations
• Reduced risk of recalls from label mix-up or misprint, saving on recovery and rework costs
• Increased product control through verification of label and printing quality
• Meet retailer demands for certification and compliance with BRC and IFS quality assurance criteria
• MID certifiable and customizable
• Optional statistics functions to provide detailed reporting

METTLER TOLEDO’s brands, Garvens and Hi-Speed Checkweighing, Safeline X-ray Inspection and Metal Detection, and CI-Vision Machine Vision Inspection are market leaders in their respective technologies with decades of experience producing reliable, high performance product inspection solutions. Combining the technologies, expertise, and experience has resulted in a powerful line of highly sophisticated combination systems for a wide range of applications.

The convenience of a small footprint, sophisticated product handling, and exceptional inspection capabilities are benefits in addition to the inherent checkweighing, x-ray inspection, metal detection, or machine vision inspection capabilities.

As a single supplier, METTLER TOLEDO offers the needed expertise to find the right solution for every customer and every application. In addition, METTLER TOLEDO offers global service support right from the start – from the initial purchase to set-up and after sales support. Our network of more than 36000 global service engineers is always at hand to support manufacturers throughout the equipment’s life cycle.