Thermo Scientific Product Inspection White Papers

  1. Checkweighers: Using Data To Minimize Expensive Product Giveaways 7/14/2017

    Making sure final product weight is within acceptable min/max ranges is a critical manufacturing objective for F&B companies. This article details how checkweighers help ensure proper fill levels.

  2. Identifying Food Contaminants: What Technology Is Best For Your Application? 7/5/2017

    Contaminants are a fact of life for food manufacturers, making contaminant detection systems a necessity. This article explains the process of calculating the ROI of foreign body detection systems.

  3. Metal Detection Vs. X-Ray Inspection: What Food Processors Should Know 6/7/2016

    Metal detection and X-ray inspection, traditionally, have been the first line of defense to identify foreign contaminants in food. For food quality and safety professionals, choosing a detection system is typically based on three things: the optimum detection point, overall application capability, and total cost/benefit. However, engineering and software improvements continue to set new standards of detection. This has led to some confusion regarding which technology to employ and why. This white paper intends to clarify which inspection technology will most benefit your company.

  4. 5 Steps To Decide What Contaminant Detection Equipment Fits Your Needs 6/7/2016

    Contaminants are a fact of life for food manufacturers, making contaminant detection a necessity.  This five-step process is one way to calculate the payback of purchasing contaminant detection systems.

  5. Checkweighing Challenges Call For Customization 2/27/2016

    Checkweighers are key to measuring efficiency and cost of a packaging line. However, there are factors that may require customization that play a role in the success of your checkweigher.

  6. What's The Best Inspection Solution For High-Value Bulk Food? 1/7/2016

    Nuts, seeds, dried fruits and dozens of other fresh, bulk food products are fetching sky-high prices of late due to demand and supply issues caused by the drought in California. Consequently, this brings the need for reliable ways to maximize production while eliminating contaminants. This requires extra diligence, including the use of advanced inspection equipment to remove foreign objects. Gone are days of error prone human inspection or wasteful processes such as discarding partially clean products to avoid further inspection costs.

  7. Product Inspection Risk Assessment For Packaged Baked Goods And Snacks 10/27/2015

    Evolving inspection/detection technology can help both baking and snack food companies get their products to market contamination-free and in the case of multiple-item packs, with all of the promised pieces in place. Using inline checkweighers to weigh packaged products ensures that they contain the correct amount of expensive product ingredients and that dispensing equipment is operating correctly. This aids in problem identification and facilitates uptime on today’s high-rate lines.

  8. How Automatic Metal Detector Performance Verification Helps Food Manufacturers 4/28/2015

    Unlike the traditional and manual ‘three metal pass/fail’ system auditing, this new technology can detect potential problems before there is a failure during a manual audit, thus limiting expensive downtime and repair costs. It can also decrease or even eliminate the time and energy spent manually auditing and recording the food metal detector’s results — thus improving overall production efficiency. Moreover, it can help food manufacturers achieve the highest food safety standards. This paper explains how the performance verification system option works and why it can augment or replace manual auditing.

  9. 10 Reasons To Upgrade From Metal Detection To X-Ray Inspection 3/17/2015

    X-ray inspection in food processing lines can provide many benefits you may be unaware of. Here are 10 reasons to consider stepping up to the latest technology utilized in X-ray inspection systems.

  10. AuditCheck Metal Detection System Improves Efficiency And Product Safety 5/23/2011

    Learn about a unique performance verification system that utilizes an automated test shuttle that moves through the metal detector’s field at user-specified points in time.