X-ray for contaminate inspection, fat analysis and Material ...2015/10/22 · First EAGLE X-ray...
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X-ray for contaminate inspection,fat analysis and Material Discrimination (MDX) X-ray Stuart Hincksman, Food Processing Equipment
2015 MINTRAC Meat Inspection and Quality Assurance Conference
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MINTRAC Conference 2015Eagle Product Inspection
“The next generation in X-ray examination”
Stuart Hincksman - FPE
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Agenda
• How safe is X-ray of Food – Short movie
• Who is Eagle product Inspection
• X-ray applications in the meat Industry
• Fat Analysis story so far – Short movie
• MDX technology
• MDX Meat Industry Examples
• Data flow and control in the meat industry
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Corporate Presentation 4
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EAGLE History
• PID Established in August 1998 under Smiths Heimann Systems GmbH
– Fir
– Developed the first X-ray system to utilize morphology technology– Introduced simultaneous inspection of products for contaminant, defects
and weight analysis through proprietary SimulTask™ Software
• Purchased by Smiths Group PLC in 2002
– Introduced first QuadView X-ray system (2006)
– Introduced MDX technology for material discrimination (2006)
– Introduced Fat Analysis through X-ray to measure Fat to Lean in meat products through partnership with Meatvision Ltd. (2007)
• Acquired by Mettler-Toledo March, 2011
– Introduced Pack 240 XE 9 (2012)
– Introduced HC 400 – 2012 (2012)
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History of X-ray for Food Quality
First X-ray
image by
Wilhelm
Conrad
Röntgen
1896 1998 1999
EAGLE introduces
Morphology
2001
First system with
multitasking
capability to find
various product
defects
2003
EAGLE introduced
X-ray
checkweighing
2004
Eagle introduced
MDX
First machine with
4 beams
introduced to
market
2005 2006
Eagle FAT
Analysis
2007 2008
Shortest
side-
inspection
SimulTask 4
New flexible
software platform
2009
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2010
EAGLE Pro
Product Line
2011 2012
Pack 400
Hygienic
Clean (in
place)
Pack 240 XE
First EAGLE X-ray
food inspection
machine:
Contaminant
Detection only
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X-ray in the Meat Industry
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In-line Fat analysis
– Bulk Meat
– Cartons
– Crates
Contaminant detection
- Stainless steel / Ferrous / Non-ferrous
- Bone
- Glass / Stone / Rock
- Plastics / Rubber
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MDX
• Material Discrimination X-ray operates on the
same principle as fat analysis, DEXA (Dual
Energy X-ray Analysis) to discriminate materials
by their chemical composition (atomic number) .
• MDX is valuable in difficult or “busy” images that
contain high variations in image density.
• In the meat industry today, the most common use
of MDX is to detect bone.
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Example of MDX in use
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Single energy X-ray image
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MDX image
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Contaminant found
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Future use of MDX
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Conveyor belt
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Belt detected on MDX operators
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Data flow and control
• Need for remote inspection stations in the
Meat industry with access to X-ray image
• Plants should be saving and storing EVERY
X-ray image for 18 months
• X-ray images can be analysed remotely
anywhere by a person – Do not need to be
necessarily on plant
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Thank youQuestions?