Join us at Pack Expo 2014!

Pack Expo is the destination for solutions to ensure the safety and quality of your packaged and unpackaged products. And when you come to our booth, #S-2514, you’ve truly arrived! You’ll find a world of education and insights. Plus, you can see first-hand our latest innovations in X-ray inspection, metal detection and checkweighing to help you protect your brand.

From implications of the Food Safety Modernization Act to applications insights, discover how our team with hundreds of years of product inspection expertise can help you tackle your next packaged or unpackaged product inspection challenge.

All new in 2014

There is a special focus on meeting the needs of customers in the baked goods/ snack, meat, dairy and pharmaceutical arenas. Just look for the following symbols to quickly find information relevant to each of their unique inspection challenges.

meats
dairy
baking goods
snacks

Education

Keeping pace with regulatory requirements, innovative materials and the right inspection and detection solutions is more challenging than ever. With our deep expertise in product inspection across multiple customer industries, our in-booth education program will inspire and invigorate your thinking and help you achieve the optimum inspection solution for your needs.

If your products are baked goods/snacks, dairy, meat or pharmaceuticals, we have special programming and applications insights especially for you. Just look for the symbol that best matches your business.

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Presentations

Sunday - November 2

10 a.m.

How to Reduce Scrap and Rework After Product Contamination

Presenter: Aaron Soto - Midwest Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Consumer health and safety may on the line when contaminants are detected, but your brand reputation is, too. Discover a proven process that enables you to isolate contamination, reclaim usable product and keep your brand reputation intact.

11 a.m.

X-ray Product Verification: A New and Unique Application Framework

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Once you have captured an x-ray image of a product there is a lot more you can do with it beyond finding foreign objects. Learn about a completely new method to select, set up and test vision tools to create your own product quality inspections using the Thermo Scientific™ NextGuard™ product verification software.

2 p.m.

Applications for Demanding Environments - Meat, Poultry or Seafood

Speaker: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat


Nothing survives forever in a meat plant - the conditions are too rough. Gain insights into lasting inspection solutions. We'll draw from critical real-life problems solved in actual customer plant environments.

Monday - November 3

10 a.m.

More Compelling Reasons to Step Up to the ThermoScientific™ NextGuard™ X-ray system

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Our easy to use, cost effective NextGuard system now offers even more reasons to step up from metal detection to x-ray inspection. From new detection software for hand-to-find objects to high resolution detectors for improve metal detection, to product verification and mass estimation software for general quality inspection, see why now's the right time to add a NextGuard system to your line.

Noon

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for X-Ray Inspection

Speaker: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Avoid downtime and attend this session focusing on the most frequently-asked questions about troubleshooting X-ray inspection issues.

1 p.m.

Integrating Code Printing & Verification with Checkweighing for Track & Trace Applications

Speaker: Kevin Zarnick - Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Pharmaceutical


Learn how a checkweigher with integrated code printing and verification equipment can support a Track & Trace solution and help you comply with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

3 p.m.

How to Reduce Scrap and Rework After Product Contamination

Presenter: Aaron Soto - Midwest Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Consumer health and safety may on the line when contaminants are detected, but your brand reputation is, too. Discover a proven process that enables you to isolate contamination, reclaim usable product and keep your brand reputation intact.

Tuesday - November 4

10 a.m.

Drive Out Variability, Drive Up ROI with Checkweighers

Presenter: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Incorporating checkweighers in your product inspection program can help you reduce variability and help ensure labelling accuracy. In this session, we'll give away tips so you don't give away product or your brand reputation.

11 a.m.

Bulk Flow X-ray with the Thermo Scientific™ Xpert™ Inspection System: What is It and Can You Benefit from It?

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


One size doesn't fit all x-ray inspection needs. Discover what you might be missing by not inspecting raw products or ingredients early in your process or even at your suppliers' prior to completing and packaging your final products. See what x-ray can do that various types of sorters cannot.

Noon

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for Metal Detectors

Speaker: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Join us for a tip-packed session to help you troubleshoot common food metal detector issues.

1 p.m.

Integrated Checkweigher System: PER-FIL Industries

Presenter: Shari Becker - President - PER-FIL Industries
Pharmaceutical


Perfil Industries' Shari Becker shares how a customized integrated checkweigher/filler system is helping the company to reduce giveaway and confirm proper filling of packaged products.

2 p.m.

Applications Insights for Dairy Products

Presenter: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dairy


The dairy industry spans ice cream to cheese sticks, to yogurts, milk and more. Inspection and measurement systems in a dairy plant must meet rigorous standards of hygiene and performance. We will highlight applications and real client stories where our expertise helped solve real plant needs.

3 p.m.

FSMA's Proposed Preventive Controls: Are You Ready to Take These Key Steps?

Presenter:Anne Sherod - Director of Food Safety - The Acheson Group
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


The evolving requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) continue to raise the bar for food safety prevention. Learn from The Acheson Group's Anne Sherod the key steps you need to take to ensure that foreign material detection verification is in place to assist in compliance with what's next.

Wednesday - November 5

9 a.m.

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for X-Ray Inspection

Presenter: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Avoid downtime and attend this session focusing on the most frequently-asked questions about troubleshooting X-ray inspection issues.

10 a.m.

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for Metal Detectors

Presenter: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Join us for a tip-packed session to help you troubleshoot common food metal detector issues.

Featured Products

We will be unveiling several new X-ray and metal detector systems at Pack Expo. Check back here for details on these exciting new products in the coming weeks – and come to our booth to see them in action!



NEW

NextGuard X-ray Detection: System Enhancements

The Thermo Scientific™ NextGuard™ X-ray Detection System was designed to make the transition easy from metal detection to X-ray detection.

  • Enables compliance with worldwide HACCP food safety requirements.
  • Easy to use.
  • Cost effective.
  • Easily customizable vision software can inspect for flaws such as missing pieces or components.
  • Pull-down menu to design and test quickly a wide range of size and count inspections.
  • Improved metal detection sensitivity.

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Xpert X-Ray Inspection Systems

The Thermo Scientific™ Xpert™ S400 offers high performance contaminant detection and product inspection for upright/tall products like cans, bottles and standup pouches. Among the features and benefits: a large horizontal beam provides improved sensitivity and more accurate results when scanning vertically-oriented containers. Specific software algorithms designed for tall profile packages look for contaminants in problem areas such as package edges, bottom center and top.

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Versa Rx Marking and Verification Checkweigher

Designed to meet the high performance standards of the pharmaceutical industry, yet suitable for food applications as well, the Thermo Scientific™ Versa Rx Marking and Verification Checkweigher (for track and trace compliance) provides trusted reliability.

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Thermo Scientific™ Versa Checkweigher Solutions

See how versatile the Thermo Scientific™ Versa Checkweigher configurations can be in this demo station that includes a controller along with several weigh frame solutions to meet a diverse range of applications. The station includes the Thermo Scientific™ Teorema Checkweigher for high-speed can lines, a Versa Frame 8120 Chain Checkweigher for reliable high-speed weighing, control and rejection for cartons, cans, bottles and pouches in dry or wet environments; and a VersaWeigh™ Food Checkweigher, an easy –to-use, easy-to-maintain, sanitary and scalable option.

Versa Checkweigher

Teorema Checkweigher

Versa Frame 8120

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Download

How to Reduce Scrap and Rework After Product Contamination

Presenter: Aaron Soto - Midwest Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Consumer health and safety may on the line when contaminants are detected, but your brand reputation is, too. Discover a proven process that enables you to isolate contamination, reclaim usable product and keep your brand reputation intact.

Download

X-ray Product Verification: A New and Unique Application Framework

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Once you have captured an x-ray image of a product there is a lot more you can do with it beyond finding foreign objects. Learn about a completely new method to select, set up and test vision tools to create your own product quality inspections using the Thermo Scientific™ NextGuard™ product verification software.

Download

Applications for Demanding Environments - Meat, Poultry or Seafood

Speaker: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat


Nothing survives forever in a meat plant - the conditions are too rough. Gain insights into lasting inspection solutions. We'll draw from critical real-life problems solved in actual customer plant environments.

Download

X-ray Detection: Help or Hype for Foreign Object Detection in Food?

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - X-ray Inspection and Metal Detection - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


X-raying food products to find solid contaminants is on the rise due to the potential to find many types of foreign materials, not just metals. Many consumer goods companies and large retailers are also demanding that their suppliers implement x-ray, thinking it is the best way to protect their brand. But like most hot technologies, x-ray is not perfect and can be oversold or misapplied which can lead to disappointment, excessive false rejects/scrap and high costs for reinspection.

This presentation will explain the basic technology used in all x-ray systems, what the differences are between the various system types and what techniques are ideal for a wide range of applications. Attendees will not only learn what x-ray is good for, but also what its current limitations are. The role of the ubiquitous metal detector and its long-term role in HACCP will also be discussed.

Download

More Compelling Reasons to Step Up to the ThermoScientific™ NextGuard™ X-ray system

Presenter: Bob Ries - Lead Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Our easy to use, cost effective NextGuard system now offers even more reasons to step up from metal detection to x-ray inspection. From new detection software for hand-to-find objects to high resolution detectors for improve metal detection, to product verification and mass estimation software for general quality inspection, see why now's the right time to add a NextGuard system to your line.

Download

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for X-Ray Inspection

Speaker: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Avoid downtime and attend this session focusing on the most frequently-asked questions about troubleshooting X-ray inspection issues.

Download

Integrating Code Printing & Verification with Checkweighing for Track & Trace Applications

Speaker: Kevin Zarnick - Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Pharmaceutical


Learn how a checkweigher with integrated code printing and verification equipment can support a Track & Trace solution and help you comply with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

Download

How to Reduce Scrap and Rework After Product Contamination

Presenter: Aaron Soto - Midwest Sales Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Consumer health and safety may on the line when contaminants are detected, but your brand reputation is, too. Discover a proven process that enables you to isolate contamination, reclaim usable product and keep your brand reputation intact.

Download

Drive Out Variability, Drive Up ROI with Checkweighers

Presenter: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Incorporating checkweighers in your product inspection program can help you reduce variability and help ensure labelling accuracy. In this session, we'll give away tips so you don't give away product or your brand reputation.

Download

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for Metal Detectors

Speaker: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy


Join us for a tip-packed session to help you troubleshoot common food metal detector issues.

Download

Integrated Checkweigher System: PER-FIL Industries

Presenter: Shari Becker - President - PER-FIL Industries
Pharmaceutical


Perfil Industries' Shari Becker shares how a customized integrated checkweigher/filler system is helping the company to reduce giveaway and confirm proper filling of packaged products.

Download

Applications Insights for Dairy Products

Presenter: Rick Cash - Product Technology Manager and Checkweigher Product Manager - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Dairy


The dairy industry spans ice cream to cheese sticks, to yogurts, milk and more. Inspection and measurement systems in a dairy plant must meet rigorous standards of hygiene and performance. We will highlight applications and real client stories where our expertise helped solve real plant needs.

Download

FSMA's Proposed Preventive Controls: Are You Ready to Take These Key Steps?

Presenter:Anne Sherod - Director of Food Safety - The Acheson Group
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


The evolving requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) continue to raise the bar for food safety prevention. Learn from The Acheson Group's Anne Sherod the key steps you need to take to ensure that foreign material detection verification is in place to assist in compliance with what's next.

Download

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for X-Ray Inspection

Presenter: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Avoid downtime and attend this session focusing on the most frequently-asked questions about troubleshooting X-ray inspection issues.

Download

Top Trouble-shooting Tips for Metal Detectors

Presenter: Arturo Ceballos - Field Service Engineer - Thermo Fisher Scientific
Meat
Baked Goods
Dairy
Pharmaceutical


Join us for a tip-packed session to help you troubleshoot common food metal detector issues.

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