Minebea Intec Debuts New Metal Detector Mitus
Minebea Intec launched at interpack 2023 a new metal detector that help manufacturers mitigate contamination risk. Thanks to its flexible modulation feature MiWave, the inspection solution reliably detects contaminated products of a wide range of sizes, shapes and compositions, thereby preventing needless incorrect rejections. This ensures maximum product safety and efficiency on the production line.
With the new metal detection system Mitus, Minebea Intec offers a high-precision inspection solution for detecting foreign objects in almost all applications in the food and drinks industry. The system ignores high product effects caused by product shape, size and composition, and minimizes incorrect separations in the process. This enables Mitus to reliably detect foreign objects. Another impressive feature of the metal detector is the variety of models available, which ensures it can be easily integrated into existing systems.
In the food industry, reliable metal detection devices make a difference in how effectively they offset product effects, i.e. how the product itself affects the electromagnetic field. The size of the product effect depends on a range of factors, including product shape, size, temperature, moisture and the concentration of ingredients, particularly the salt content of the product. Generally speaking, if these properties change, it can lead to unexpected product effects, which can pose problems for conventional metal detectors. Flexibility is the key to success here. Mitus handles this challenge thanks to its flexible modulation feature MiWave. MiWave artificially modulates transmitter waves and intelligently resolves and analyzes the receiver spectrum. This enables Mitus to automatically minimize the problem of incorrect rejections and therefore provide maximum detection sensitivity for foreign objects made from ferrous and non-ferrous metals, stainless steels and light metals like aluminum.
Mitus is easy to integrate into existing systems: the inspection solution is available in most standard sizes and as a rectangular, round or compact detection coil, which means it can be integrated into your system even if there is limited space available. Mitus can be easily combined with other inspection solutions, such as weighing technology, and integrated into existing production lines. The product is also equipped with the standardized Minebea Intec user interface, which makes for easy and intuitive operation. One example of this is the integrated teach-in mode, which reduces the configuration of new products to a few simple steps, thus saving the customer valuable time.