ope stand at this year’s Macropak will showcase some of the company’s latest capabilities in weighing and quality control with a model from its market-leading X-ray range and a multihead weigher specially designed for smaller products and target weights.The CCW-R-214-08 Small Hopper weigher can handle small items, including confectionery, snacks, nuts and seeds, at target weights between 5g and 500g at speeds of up to 210wpm depending on the application. It features the traditional circular multihead weigher design incorporating proven Ishida technology – including Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), an enhanced Anti-Floor Vibration (AFV) system, a high speed 5-stage digital filter, and a new combination calculation algorithm using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology - that delivers high speeds, excellent accuracy and efficiency levels close to 100%.
The Ishida IX-GA-4075 X-ray system incorporates unique self-learning Genetic Algorithm (GA) technology, which offers maximum detection sensitivity and reliability, detecting impurities such as metal, glass, bones, shells, stones, hard rubber and plastic down to 0.3mm in size. The machine is also able to distinguish between ‘legitimate’ metal, such as clips or aluminium tins, while still monitoring and identifying unwanted items.
In addition, thanks to its sensitivity and accuracy, the system can also be used for an increasing number of quality control operations such as product grading by length, presence of clips, voids in product, product deformation, missing or damaged pieces, presence of bottle caps and fill-level control. Recent examples of its capabilities include detecting the absence of a wooden ice cream stick and assessing the maturity of cheese.
