Installing metal detection or x-ray inspection equipment early in the production process allows you to detect and reject contaminated ingredients before further value is added later downstream. This can reduce packaging waste and save costs further along the production line, reducing the number of final products that need to be rejected, as well as the time and labor costs involved in dealing with production interruptions.

X-ray inspection systems from METTLER TOLEDO house Optimum Power Generators, which release the optimum amount of x-ray power required for the application. This feature produces significant energy savings by reducing power consumption and extending the lifetime of the system generator.

If your manufacturing plant suffers from high staff turnover, you will know that training new operators takes time and can slow down production. This can also increase the risk of human errors.

Pre-programmed software algorithms in product inspection solutions can provide easy product set-ups and changeovers on modern metal detection and x-ray systems. This means you can automate manual processes to reduce risk of errors and speed up production. 

Automatic testing capabilities for metal detectors can also support your operators, as it removes the need to often work at height to improve worker safety and frees up their time to work on other tasks.

Precision checkweighing systems verify the contents of packaged goods. Advanced checkweighing software from METTLER TOLEDO allows you to set fill levels, monitor them and correct them when needed to improve overall production line efficiency. This also reduces costly over-fill, and the savings in waste reduction can be substantial over the course of a production run.

X-ray inspection can also perform checks to identify incorrect fill levels and help to avoid waste. A combined x-ray and checkweighing solution provides even further efficiencies by carrying out these checks in one integrated system – another big tick in the world of efficiency.

In manufacturing, data collected from product inspection equipment can have a big impact on improving operational efficiencies and boosting productivity.

Data management software such as ProdX^TM automatically collects and stores product inspection data, providing paperless documentation of reject incidents required for compliance. This saves significant time as you no longer need to complete forms, or file and collate information for reports and trend analysis – ProdX does it all for you!

In terms of cost benefits, if a product recall needs to be actioned, the data management software enables you to identify the exact products affected, instead of wasting larger batches that might include perfectly good products.