Danish industrial equipment supplier, InnospeXion, has developed an X-ray system that enables large fish blocks to be inspected for bones, saving time for fish processors.
The fishing industry is becoming more global and dynamic, and fish processing vessels are travelling increasingly longer distances. This had an impact on the logistics of catching, preserving and transporting fish. Frozen at sea fish can be processed as large frozen fish blocks or individually quick-frozen (IQF) fish.
IQF fish portions are easily handled by a standard size X-ray system. The challenge is, however, with the large fish blocks that require robust equipment.
InnospeXion's system has the capacity to inspect these larger blocks and, most importantly, allows fish processors to analyse the number of bones in each block and classify their product into different categories of quality.
The solution is based on a low-energy X-ray technology with a detection level down to a pixel size of 0.1mm, and with the highest sensitivity. InnospeXion has tailored this technology to allow for a wide conveyor inspection capability and to provide a high quality X-ray image of even tall and thick packaged items and products.
The system is also capable of measuring mass and checks for contamination with foreign materials such as metal, rubber, sand, stones, glass. The equipment can either be installed on the fish processing vessel or at the vessel’s discharge point.
