WEIGHING and inspection technology specialist Minebea Intec has revealed the firm’s focus at this year’s PPMA Show will be on the new Pipeline X-ray Dypipe and a newly developed user interface for checkweighers.
Dypipe is said to provide an ‘extremely high level of safety’ for viscous and liquid products. The solution was developed to detect foreign objects made of metal, stone, plastic, bone and glass whilst also rejecting defective or contaminated products.
The Dypipe is fitted with a test piece feed system which enables verification of test pieces during production. Minebea Intec explained this means users can always be sure that the production process will function without any problems, with no lost production time.
A reject valve has been fitted to meet the high level of hygiene requirements for meat applications.
Also on display at the Birmingham NEC will be a new user interface for checkweighers featuring intuitive operation. Checkweighers can be configured, controlled, tested and audited with the interface.
Minebea Intec added that regardless of whether users are programming a new product, adjusting line parameters or defining a batch record, the interface ‘simplifies work and makes it more efficient’. The operator terminal displays the Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE) and other statistics based on current weighing results. There are various log functions for audits. The operator terminal is fully MID certified with the manufacturer’s weighing technology.
The stand will also feature the vision inspection VisioPointer, one of three vision products from Minebea Intec. Combined with the Automatic Weigh Price Labeller WPL-A, customers can automate their entire end of production line where labelling plays a ‘significant’ part of the manufacturing.
The Static Weigh Price Labeller (WPL-S) will also be available to view at the show.
