With bulk inspection, you don’t just want an X-ray machine: you want an inspection solution. Material handling is so important with bulk inspection that if it doesn’t work well for some reason, the entire solution doesn’t work.
With bulk inspection, you don’t just want an X-ray machine: you want an inspection solution. That’s because material handling is so important with bulk that if the X-ray doesn’t work correctly, the entire solution doesn’t work well. So, Peco InspX focuses on is complete systemic design.
First, what can you find in bulk inspection?
Let’s say you’re a nut or bean operator (think almonds). Color sorters are used extensively to get things out of the product stream that is not the product itself – but they don’t do a very good job with dense materials like rocks. That’s because often rocks and your product, like nuts or beans, look very similar to a color sorter, so it can’t distinguish between the two.
An X-ray inspection system will be much better at removing foreign material because the density differences in rocks or even plastics are exceptionally well-detected in bulk systems. The product is normally almost mono-layered on top of the belt, so you get an incredibly high-fidelity inspection.
Couple that with a rejection solution that matches your expected defect rate; to minimize the amount of product you’re rejecting. A waterfall air-blast system or a lift gate can be great for that. But to have a holistic solution – designed to handle your flow rate, and your expected rate of product defect occurrence and ejection – we’ve invested in a variety of bulk conveyors. They’re designed to do realistic FAPs at our facility in Modesto.
So when you need a bulk solution, call Peco InspX.
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