Packaged Meat X-Ray

Because of thawing products' tendency to trigger metal detectors, this machine is ideal for frozen meats in a wide variety of packing formats including chubs, over wrapped trays, pouches, cartons, tubs, cups and plastic containers. This unit was developed for meat industry requirements where the need for precise contaminant detection is critical for compliance with stringent retailer specifications and meat safety regulations.

The hygeinic design features unobstructed sight lines and contoured surfaces to minimize potential material harborage areas ensuring fast visual inspection and cleaning. The entire machine can be disassembled and reassembled by a single person in a matter of minutes for thorough sanitation to maximize production uptime.

The packaged meat x-ray machine comes equipped with high-resolution image processing software, providing superior detection and rejection of contaminants such as metal, glass, stone, bone, high density plastics and rubber. Further, it can check the item’s mass and provide feedback, count contents, identify broken, misshaped or missing items, and detect unwanted voids.

Material Discrimination X-ray (MDX) Technology Clears Up Busy Images

Locating hard-to-find contaminants through busy product images is a common and very difficult challenge. Material Discrimination X-ray (MDX) technology from Eagle clears up those images to reliably identify contaminants and isolate the non-conforming product. Having the best technology options available, such as MDX, is critical to reach product inspection goals.

 Designed for Hygiene, Built to Last

Machine uptime is critical for a profitable operation. Meat applications where environments are harsh and cleaning routines are extreme mean x-ray machines must be designed for hygiene and built to last. The packaged meat x-ray machine integrates proven design principles to deliver the following:

• Quick disassembly and reassembly by a single person to save time, labor and maximize production uptime
• Heavy duty open conveyor design survives the rigors of everyday production, minimizing harborage areas for efficient and effective cleaning routines without sacrificing machine durability
• Unique tension release system for quick belt removal; reinstallation maintains critical belt tensioning and tracking settings
• Open frame construction with sloped surfaces and no niches, reduces areas for standing water or material build-up to expedite sanitation cycles
• Built to IP66 ingress protection standards to withstand thorough cleaning routines

Safety is Everyone’s Job

Machine safety is critical. At Eagle, safe mechanical and electrical designs are built into all machines.

• Electrical safety circuits meet Category 3 (EN954) and Performance Level “d” (PLd, EN13849) criteria.
• A complete Hazard Based Risk Assessment is available for packaged meat x-ray machine to integrate into a user’s risk management and safety program.

Saving Product Delivers Profits

Eagle pioneered the use of x-ray for measuring the mass of inline meat products providing checkweighing functionality to prevent costly product giveaway.

• Extended infeed section ensures long products, such as chubs, are stable once they have transitioned to the belt delivering highly accurate results.
• Multi-zone, with or without EU tolerances, and Zonal measurement for multiple content items are available.
• Statistics including count and reject by zone, mean value correction and giveaway calculations are actively tracked to further optimize processes.

Integral Part of a Robust Inspection Program

The x-ray machine for packaged meat helps to document your inspection program while keeping systems up and running at required performance levels.

• Eagle Remote Access enables product set-up, machine diagnostics and often remote correction by Eagle Technical Support to maximize machine uptime while maintaining a low cost of ownership.
• Eagle Repository™ allows convenient on-screen review of production statistics as well as rejected and saved images. Information can be easily transferred or saved for review and archiving
• TraceServer™ (optional) delivers enhanced machine monitoring, data transfer and storage via an external database for one or more the packaged meat x-ray machine .