Food Safety Checkweighing Solutions for Automated Production Lines

Food Safety Checkweighing Solutions for Automated Production Lines

Overview

Automated checkweighing solutions are a critical component of food safety on modern production lines. They go

far beyond simple weight checks to provide a comprehensive, automated system for ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and consumer safety. By integrating advanced technology into the manufacturing process, these systems protect both a company's brand reputation and its bottom line.

Key Functions for Food Safety

Food safety checkweighers are purpose-built to meet the stringent demands of the food and beverage industry.

Here are their core functions:

• 100% Weight Verification: Unlike manual spot-checks, automated checkweighers inspect the weight of every single product on the line.

• Compliance with Net Content Regulations: In many countries, strict laws govern the accuracy of product weight. Checkweighers ensure every package falls within an acceptable tolerance, helping companies avoid significant fines, legal action, and costly product recalls.

• Contaminant Detection: While their primary function is weighing, checkweighers are often the first line of defense against certain types of contamination. An unexpected change in product weight can be an early indicator of a foreign object or a missing component.

• Automated Rejection: When a product's weight is outside the specified range, the checkweigher automatically triggers a rejection mechanism, such as a pushoff arm, a drop-down belt, or an air-jet blast. This ensures non-conforming items are immediately and securely removed from the production line without human intervention.

• Data Logging and Traceability: The system logs every weight measurement, along with a timestamp and a batch number. This data creates a complete audit trail that is essential for food safety audits and for tracing the source of any issues.

By leveraging these solutions, food manufacturers can move from a reactive to a proactive approach to quality

control. They can ensure consistent product quality, meet regulatory requirements, and protect their brand by delivering safe, accurately packaged food to consumers.

SMARTWEIGH INSTRUMENT CO.,LTD , established over 15 years, which is one of the largest manufacturers and exporter in China. Our workshop occupy 20,000 square meters and located in a very convenient and beautiful city, Changzhou, it is close to Shanghai and only take one hour by high speed railway.

  Our company have advanced production equipments like Bending machine, pre-arch machine, shearing machine, qutomatic welder, automatic welding robot, plasama cutting machine, and baking paiting room, to help us increase the product quality and  production productivity  Our company also have the senior technician team and design team. Many products have been applied  patents. 

  Under the advanced test equipement, technical workers and rich experice, we manufactured high qualified truck cales, platform scales, bench scales, crane scales, highway axle scales, as well as spare parts like indicators and loadcells. We have exported to RUSSIA, KSA, USA, UK, HOLLAND, SPAIN, ITALY etc many different kind of countries, our good quality and timely delivery has attracted over 200 long term distrbutors all over the world.

Our yearly export collection amount keep about 5000,000 to 10000,000 USD, among of this, our project for the foreign railway, highway and government is the majority. By the way, We can supply both ODM and OEM design also.

  Our company havs been awarded ISO 9001, CE, SGS, OIML cetificate for our products, all weighing scales are 

pre-calibrated before shipping, We deicated to the spirit of " Quality come first forveve and technology detemines the productivity"since extablished, and we have benifited from it and quietly brilliant for over 15 years.

More and more wonders and brilliant future will be made be by SMARTWEIGH!