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Streamlining Your Measuring Processes: Did You Know That a Checkweigher Can Weigh 500 Items per Minute?

Streamlining Your Measuring Processes: Did You Know That a Checkweigher Can Weigh 500 Items per Minute?

Guest Post | @indiablooms | 01 Mar 2019, 06:03 am

The checkweigher is one of the perfect ways to save money, increase efficiency in food measurement and to eat a balanced diet. The benefits of using a checkweigher to streamline your measurements, cannot be over-emphasized. Checkweigher is equally important when enforcing legislation because it helps to avoid overfilling and under-filling of foods into their packages. The checkweigher is an amazing piece of equipment normally used in weighing raw food and thankfully, it is capable of weighing more than 500 items in 60 seconds.

Checkweigher promotes hygiene

Maintaining a hygienic environment is very important for food manufacturers because unhygienic conditions and weighing of food can trigger catastrophic health problems in society. Since safety standards have become even more rigorous, food processing procedures such as weighing must, therefore, adhere strictly to such safety standards.

Checkweigher does not only provide accurate food weighing, but it also ensures raw food materials are hygienically weighed, to enhance value, health, and profitability.

The design and construction are non-toxic to food materials

Standard check-weighing devices do come with surfaces that are non-toxic to food materials, hence they do not react bio-chemically with food substances. It is important that surfaces of a checkweigher do not fracture or break, similarly, joints, rivets, screws and other dead spaces have been minimized, to prevent an easy-to-clean checkweigher and also to prevent the likelihood of food particles being trapped, thus preventing unhygienic food contact surfaces.

The checkweigher is designed to resist external influences such as temperature and pressure changes

There is some weighing equipment in the food industry that is subjected to rapid change in temperature and pressure, especially due to storage and operating conditions. An ideal checkweigher will prevent the expansion within, due to temperature changes. This equipment is designed to withstand any form of humidity and condensation. Stainless steel and high-impact plastic materials are normally used in the design of an ideal checkweigher, and the reason being that a high impact plastic can withstand condensation, contraction, and expansion, while a stainless steel checkweigher can withstand breakages and corrosion. It is also important to look out for a checkweigher that can keep moisture out completely when in use.

Conclusion

Perhaps the most amazing feature of the checkweigher is the speed at which you can measure hundreds of raw foods in few minutes- this will surely save more time on the long run especially when you still have to package or process the food materials. A checkweigher can also help eliminate bugs and food traps. The procedure whereby two metals are welded together to create a checkweigher can create a possibility of corrosion and that is why the metals are welded in an inert gas environment, and no edges and unlevelled surfaces are left to create an atmosphere that can create traps for food components. If there are angles in a checkweigher, they must be smooth to prevent irregular surfaces that can create traps for food. The checkweigher is a device everyone who weighs raw food should purchase for keeps.

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