Retailers Are Raising the Bar on Product Quality
Major retailers like Costco, Sam’s Club, and Walmart are continuously increasing their quality and safety standards for food and beverage products. Meeting these stricter requirements is essential for suppliers who want to stay on the shelves. In particular, these retailers are pushing for advanced foreign material detection and complete package integrity checks, in addition to standard weight verification.
Traditional checkweighers and metal detectors simply aren’t enough anymore. Manufacturers need inspection solutions that can guarantee both product safety and compliance with evolving retailer specifications.
Checkweigher vs. X-ray
Traditional checkweighers are dedicated machines designed to weigh containers at speed. But they do only that—check weight. To meet today’s retailer demands, most facilities end up installing both a checkweigher and a separate foreign material detection system, effectively doubling the investment in equipment, floor space, and ongoing maintenance.
X-ray inspection systems change the game entirely. Advanced solutions like the Peco InspX Solo perform high-precision checkweighing and comprehensive foreign material detection in a single, compact machine. This dual function removes the need for a stand-alone checkweigher on your line—reducing both capital expense and system complexity.
Eliminate Redundancy, Reduce Costs:
By choosing X-ray for both weight verification and contaminant detection, manufacturers can:
- Eliminate the purchase, installation, and maintenance costs of a separate checkweigher
- Free up valuable line space
- Simplify operations with one machine, one interface, and one point of service.
The Peco InspX Solo: High-Speed, Compact, All-in-One
Unmatched Throughput: The Solo easily keeps up with the fastest canning lines in the world—operating reliably at 2,000+ containers per minute . Unlike most checkweighers, which may max out or lose accuracy at these speeds, the Solo maintains exceptional precision, even during rapid product changeovers.
Compact Footprint: Solo’s streamlined X-ray cabinet is remarkably compact, integrating directly into existing lines with minimal disruption and no need for extra conveying or bulky rejection hardware—often far smaller than a traditional checkweigher setup.
All-in-One Inspection: While checkweighers only tell you if a container is over or underweight, the Solo X-ray system inspects every container for foreign materials and defects , including:
- Metal shards
- Glass fragments
- Stones or dense contaminants
- Defects like missing lids, low fill, or dented seams
This means one machine delivers comprehensive quality assurance—weight, foreign material, and package integrity—all at once.
Less Maintenance, More Uptime: Fewer moving parts mean less wear, fewer mechanical failures, simple changeovers and reduced maintenance compared to checkweighers. The Solo is built for 24/7 operation, even in the most demanding environments.
A Smarter Investment for Today’s Canning Lines
As retailer requirements rise and the need for comprehensive inspection grows, it’s clear that separate checkweighers are quickly becoming outdated . The Peco InspX Solo delivers full-spectrum inspection—including precision checkweighing and advanced foreign material detection—in a single, high-speed, space-saving system. The result: lower capital investment, less downtime, and the assurance your product meets the highest standards.
