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Minebea Intec, an industrial weighing and inspection technology provider, is expanding its portfolio with a new x-ray inspection system for upright packaging, Dylight S.

The compact x-ray inspection system, available to manufacturers now, has been specially developed to ensure the quality of products in upright containers.

It responds to evolving requirements for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, with regulations such as the pre-packaging ordinance or supplier audits requiring complete documentation. Additionally, sustainable packaging materials make advanced X-ray technologies essential.

According to Minebea, its new Dylight S system enables manufacturers to guarantee ‘the highest product safety and quality at an economically attractive price’.

The system features sideshooter technology for more precise detection of foreign bodies in products with light and complex packaging. It enables detection of metallic and non-metallic foreign bodies, including grass, rubber, stones or plastic parts, in containers such as PET bottles, liquid food cartons and plastic cans.

The technology also offers functions for completeness checks and fill level inspections. Additionally, its autonomous parameter adjustment function optimises the product set-up process and inspection process by automatically adjusting the settings to reduce false rejects, improving efficiency and detection accuracy.

The system can generate a second x-ray image from an acquired image, enabling the operating personnel to optimise brightness, contrast and scaling and to detect the foreign bodies that have been missed in the original images.

Dylight S can be seamlessly integrated into digital production environments thanks to its extremely compact design, confirmed Mengqi Liang, product manager at Minebea Intec.

“Another key advantage of the Dylight S is using the monoblock generator without an external transformer, which reduces technical complexity and simultaneously lowers the total cost of ownership,” Liang added.