Ishida Europe BV
About us
Ishida are a world leader in the design, manufacture and installation of weighing, packing and inspection solutions for the food industry, helping manufacturers reduce costs and downtime, increase efficiencies and maximise profits.
With an installed global base well in excess of 100,000 industrial machines, Ishida are the undisputed world market leader for multihead weighers and one of the leading suppliers of snack food bagmakers, traysealers, X-ray inspection systems, checkweighers, weigh-price-labellers, leak detectors as well as a world-class supplier of turnkey solutions for snacks, protein, frozen and dry foods.
The company’s extensive product range includes multihead weighers, marination, topping, filling and distribution systems, weigh-batchers, RobotGraders, FLEX-Graders, traysealers, snack food bagmakers, seal testers, Ishida AirScan leak detectors, X-ray inspection systems, checkweighers, weigh-price-labellers, vision systems, data collection and OEE software as well as Ishida Sentinel remote line monitoring solutions, all of which enable Ishida to provide fully integrated solutions for a wide spectrum of food and non-food applications.
Ishida Europe’s product range now includes:
• Traditional multihead weighers inclding our new CCW-AS range!
• Screw feeder and Fresh Food Weighers for very sticky and fragile fresh food
• Cutgate weighers for granular products
• Filling-, Distribution and Topping Systems
• RobotGraders and FLEX-Graders for fresh poultry, meat and fish
• Traysealers incuding our new QX-500!
• X -ray inspection systems including our new IX-PD range!
• Seal integrity testers for pillow packs and trays
• Ishida AirScan leak detectors for packs with CO2
• Checkweighers with optional integrated metal detectors
• Weigh-Price-Labellers
• Automatic Casepackers for snacks
• Pick-and-place systems for fresh food
• Complete packing lines including feed and conveying systems, gantries, bagmakers, flow wrappers and other packaging machines
• Industry 4.0 solutions
In addition, its international service and support network ensures that its problem solving and applications expertise are available worldwide.
Ishida Europe develop its solutions to integrate with existing production and packing lines and take account of factors such as floor space, packing line capacity, product conditions, handling requirements, hygiene etc. With nearly half of its over 600 strong workforce fulfilling technical roles, Ishida Europe are truly committed to increasing packing line speeds, maximising accuracy, improving efficiency and cutting total cost of ownership (TCO).
Ishida Europe’s manufacturing, Engineering, R&D, sales, service, and marketing functions are headquartered in Birmingham, UK. Additional subsidiary offices are located in France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, UAE, Kenya and South Africa. Other countries are handled by a network of country-specific business area managers, agents and distributors.
Products
Multihead weighers for very sticky and delicate products
•Ideal for fresh and marinated meat, poultry and seafood, cut fruit, cheese and ready meals •Belt feeders and anti-stick hoppers with scraper gates prevent build up of sticky products •All hoppers are equipped with scraper gates for decisive emptying and greater accuracy •Cuts giveaway to less than 1% of pack weight and reduces labour costs by typically three operators per shift •Compact dimensions ideal for factories with space or height restrictions •Waterproof, hygienic design and easy to remove contact parts allow for thorough cleaning and minimise downtime between production runs
Entry-level multihead weighers
Economical and reliable entry-level multihead weighers of exceptional value! •Ideal for dry, free flowing products such as snacks, cereals, biscuits, confectionery and pasta •Available with 10, 14 and 20 weigh heads to suit your application •High efficiency and close to zero product giveaway (better than 1% of target weight), contributing to the reduction of food waste •Speeds of up to 140 packs / min (20-head model) •Hygienic machine design, tool-free removal and replacement of contact parts and user-friendly interface minimises downtime •Excellent return on investment: Typical payback in less than one year
World's smallest multihead weigher
The Ishida Micro: The world's smallest multihead weigher with the world's best accuracy! • Ideal for handling pharmaceutical-grade cannabis, tablets, capsules, seeds, tea leaves, herbs, spices or dehydrated vegetables • Can handle target weights as low as 0.5g at speeds of up to 120 packs / min. • Ishida-made loadcells ensure outstanding accuracy (to a staggering increment of 0.01g!), contributing to the reduction of food waste • High weighing speed and efficiency using advanced combination calculation software, 5-stage digital filtering and refined anti-floor vibration • With a footprint of only 650mm x 650mm and a maximum height of 970mm this 'Micro' weigher offers powerful performance in a tiny footprint
X-ray inspection systems (Mid-Range)
Mid-range X-ray inspection system for pre-packed food and non-food • Best-in-class foreign body detection and quality control for a wide range of packed products, protecting both your customers and your brand •Fitted with hygienic design ancillaries (heavy duty air rejects, red bin for foreign bodies, blue bin for additional quality issues) and RRC (Retail Reject Confirmation). •Reliably detects contaminants such as: steel, aluminum, tin, glass, stones, dense rubber, plastic,Teflon, PVC, bones and shells, for unrivalled food safety and brand protection. •Ishida Genetic Algorithm (GA) technology enables any operator to optimise the X-ray system for greater sensitivity to specific foreign bodies •Also offers many important quality control applications such as counting components, weight estimation, missing or broken items, product voids or deformations. •Available with IDCS (Ishida Data Capture System) software which offers in-depth performance monitoring and drives improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
NEW mid-range checkweighers
Key benefits: Superb accuracy: • Equipped with Anti Floor Vibration (AFV) technology to maintain weighing accuracy in challenging production environments, offering unsurpassed weighing accuracy and consistency. Hygienic Design: • Available with IP54 / IP65 certification for challenging dusty and wet environments and to meet stringent cleaning requirements. Compliance: • Available with full Ishida Retailer Reject Confirmation (RRC) to meet the latest retail codes of practice. Connectivity: • Available with Ishida Sentinel 5.0, a powerful software that captures and manages data from every pack that passes across an Ishida checkweigher and delivers in-depth performance monitoring to drive improved Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).
Mid-range multihead weighers - Perfect for "mainstream" weighing applications
• Ideal for low to high target weights of free flowing and semi-sticky products • Now featuring Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) which ensures a steady and consistent feed of even the most challenging products • Available with 10, 14, 16, 20 and 24 weigh heads in a variety of configurations for multiple outlet or mixed product applications • IP66 waterproof rating combined with internal moisture sensors provides protection against risk of water ingress. • High weighing speed, accuracy and efficiency using advanced combination calculation software and 5-stage digital filtering, contributing to the reduction of food waste •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
Salad weighers
High performance multihead weighers for salads •Speeds of up to 70 packs per minute for bulk salad •Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) provides powerful control of challenging leaf products on top of the weigher •C4 embossed, steep angled contact parts keep sticky and entangled salad moving •Independently verified IP69K waterproof test rating: suited to rapid and challenging washdown environments •High weighing accuracy and efficiency using advanced combination calculation software, 5-stage digital filtering and refined anti-floor vibration, contributing to the reduction of food waste •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
Airscan leak detectors
High speed in-line leak detection for Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) •Uses laser technology to identify leaks of CO2 in MAP packs, detecting holes as small as 0.25mm at speeds of up to 180 packs per minute! •Typical applications: fresh protein, bakery, pasta and dairy •Fast, reliable and non-destructive leak detection allows production issues to be identified before the product reaches your customer, thus reducing food and packaging waste. •Available with top, side and under-sensors for a wide variety of pack formats. •Top and side sensing models can be fitted over existing conveyors with no additional space required •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
X-ray inspection systems (entry-level)
•High-performance foreign body detection and quality control for a wide range of packed products. •The perfect balance of investment, detection sensitivity and low operating costs. •Fitted with hygienic design ancillaries (heavy duty air rejects, red bin for foreign bodies, blue bin for additional quality issues) and RRC (Retail Reject Confirmation). •Reliably detects contaminants such as: steel, aluminum, tin, glass, stones, dense rubber, plastic,Teflon, PVC, bones and shells, for unrivalled food safety and brand protection. •Unique detection technology gives increased image resolution and enhances the detection of both high and low density foreign bodies at high inspection speeds. •Available with IDCS (Ishida Data Capture System) software which offers in-depth performance monitoring and drives improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
X-ray inspection system (bulk)
•Best-in-class foreign body detection and quality control for a wide range of bulk products such as dried fruit, cereals, snacks or frozen food. •Fitted with bulk ancillaries such as 4-lane upflap and troughed conveyors. •Reliably detects contaminants such as: steel, aluminum, tin, glass, stones, dense rubber, plastic,Teflon, PVC, bones and shells, ensuring that the bulk product is free if contaminants before distribution or export. •Ishida Genetic Algorithm (GA) technology enables any operator to optimise the X-ray system for greater sensitivity to specific foreign bodies. •Available with IDCS (Ishida Data Capture System) software which offers in-depth performance monitoring and drives improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
X-ray inspection system (poultry)
Top-range X-ray inspection system for fresh poultry •Integrated solution for the handling, inspection and rejection of unpacked chicken fillets at up to 400 fillets per minute. •Uses dual energy technology to reliably detect wish, rib and fan bones, for unrivalled food safety and brand protection. •Shown here with re-circulating conveyor to remove and rework detected bones. •Quality control applications include weight estimation, missing and broken items. •Also ideal for uneven and overlapping products, reducing product waste by minimising false detection. •Available with IDCS (Ishida Data Capture System) software which offers in-depth performance monitoring and drives improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness).
Checkweighers (entry-level)
Entry-level checkweighers for pre-packed food and non-food •Ishida loadcell technology offers unsurpassed weighing accuracy and consistency. •IP54 / IP65 certification for challenging dusty and wet environments and to meet stringent cleaning requirements. •Specified with Ishida AFV (Anti Floor Vibration) technology to increase weighing accuracy in environments susceptible to floor vibration. •Shown here with full Ishida RRC (Retailer Reject Confirmation) to meet the latest retail codes of practice. •Shown here with IDCS (Ishida Data Capture System), a powerful software that captures and manages data from every pack that passes across an Ishida checkweigher and delivers in-depth performance monitoring to drive improved OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness). •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
Sealtesters with vision system
Inline pressure sealtesters with vision system: fast and accurate in-line inspection of pack and label integrity •The sealtester applies controlled pressure to the packs whilst detecting and evaluating any subsequent ‘give’. •Reliable and non-destructive leak detection allows out-of-spec packs to be identified before the product reaches the customer, thus reducing food and packaging waste •Can test packs on an intermittent and continuous basis at speeds of up to 140 packs per minute •Available with an integrated Ishida Vision System that confirms that packs carry the correct labels and label information, including numbers, barcodes and 2D codes, while checking its legibility. •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
RobotGraders for poultry, meat, fish
X-ray inspection and robot-grading solution for fixed weight portions of poultry, meat and fish into trays •Dual energy X-ray inspection system for bone detection combines with single head RobotGrader for fully automatic packing into fixed weight trays. •IX-G2 uses dual energy technology to reliably detect bones in meat and poultry at high inspection speeds. •IX-G2 software determines product weight, position and orientation for the robot’s piece selection for each tray. •The RobotGrader's unique gripper design is able to grasp each piece to allow a fast, clean and decisive placement into the tray, whilst optimising pack styling (i.e. correct orientation and minimising protrusions). •RobotGrader can significantly reduce labour cost and can save floor space by up to 30%. •IX-G2 + RobotGrader contribute to reducing product giveaway and increasing weight consistency .
Weigh-Price-Labellers
High performance weigh-price-labellers -maximising production throughput, efficiency and flexibility whilst optimising label presentation. •High-speed air jet label applicator ideal for flat top products, the plunger applicator is perfect for curved and slanting products •Multi-rank weighing feature allows to run a variety of products concurrently by ranking incoming products by weight or input signals (e.g. colour of tray, height of product). •Unique label cassettes and a special label feeding solution allow operators to prepare all labels in advance •Consistent label placement: Infeed side belts auto-adjust to the product width to ensure that every product is placed centrally on the conveyor. •Durable thermal head ensures consistently accurate label presentation, reduced label waste and minimum operating costs.
FlexGraders for poultry, meat, fish
A smart and easy solution for a wide range of batching and grading applications Key benefits - Proven Ishida weighing technology guarantees high speed operation and unsurpassed weighing accuracy. - Industrial, open frame design allows rapid and easy cleaning - Flexible operating system allows different grading applications, such as simple grading, grading with count or minimum weight batching or target batching with tolerances and priorities. - User-friendly operation reduces downtime for product changeovers. - The Ishida Flexgrader reinforces Ishida’s position as a complete turnkey supplier to large-scale meat, poultry and fish processors.
Inspira Snacks Packing System
High performance multihead weigher and rotary bagmaker for snack foods •Offers unbeatable levels of performance and pack quality •Top line speed of 150bpm for potato chips and 200bpm for extruded snacks, approaching zero giveaway and greater than 99% efficiency. Maximum bagmaker noise level of 80dBA at 200bpm. •Bagmaker features such as automated film centring, auto-splice film management, automated air-fill technology and other automatic adjustments, help to ensure consistency in production and reduced human error. •Dedicated software and servo-controlled sealing operation, with accurate jaw temperature and jaw pressure, delivering consistent pack quality and significantly reducing downtime. •Double rotary jaws, servo motor and software controlled variable seal time, jaw temperature and jaw pressure offers excellent handling properties for a wide range of film types. •Ceramic hot knife with enhanced, hard-wearing jaws offers superb sealing properties to deliver the highest quality pack presentation. •Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world.
Sealtesters for pillow packs
Key benefits: Superb detection accuracy at high speed: • High precision seal integrity testing at speeds up to 150 packs per minute. • High-accuracy in-line leak detection and gentle bag handling deliver excellent quality control. • Feedback control ensures the servo operated inspection head applies optimum pressure to the bag for enhanced leak detection accuracy. Advanced control: • Auto Air-Fill (AAF) feedback software automatically monitors and adjusts the pack inflation level on the bagmaker to deliver consistent pack thickness to the Casepacker Connectivity: • Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world
Automatic casepackers for retail packs
Key benefits: Advance packing efficiency: • Combines case infeed and alignment, bag sorting and packing, case closing and sealing in one machine, for a wide range of bag and case sizes and pack patterns. • Offers case packing for pillow, side gusset, flat bottom, HEM and different pack patterns, without the need to change parts. Precision control and handling: • Receives pack air-fill data directly from the Ishida Sealtester, enabling immediate adjustments to be made to ensure consistent and reliable pack handling. • In-line monitoring function counts packs to ensure the correct number is delivered into every case. User friendly HMI: • 15.3” HMI screen displays easy-to-use menus for machine monitoring and set up guides to reduce operator error. Easy to integrate & operate • Preset options allow automatic set up in 3 minutes, without the need for tools or manual adjustments. • Compact dimensions allow easy installation and seamless integration into existing production lines.
Ishida Sentinel 5.0: Discover the power of connected technology - joined-up thinking is smarter thinking!
Ishida Sentinel 5.0 is an advanced machine monitoring tool providing detailed performance reporting and advanced support options. Key benefits: •Enable proof of compliance with digital management of E-Mark implementation and HACCP •Facilitate intelligent optimization at every point. •Reduce downtime through 24/7 monitoring and proactive maintenance •Raise productivity by increasing throughput •Improve food safety with full line intelligence •Make data-driven decisions with Industry 5.0 technology and adaptive AI •Integrate existing systems seamlessly with Third-Party Connector •Customise your dashboard for user-friendly experience •Tailor and scale the system to your exact needs
End-of-line pick-and-place systems
Pick-and-place systems for packing sealed trays into Eurocrates •Allows fast and flexible case and crate packing in single, twin and dual lane configurations. •Compact footprint reduces space in the factory •Maximum speed of 15 cycles, typically achieving 60 trays per minute
CCW-AS Multihead Weigher: The best just got better!
Key benefits: Enhanced product control, speed and accuracy: • More powerful, highly responsive radial feeders, ideal for challenging fresh and sticky products, offer more conveying power than conventional feeders, thus increasing speed and accuracy to reduce product giveaway and help increase output and profitable revenue. • Class leading Ishida technologies such as Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), Triple Calculation software and Digital Filtering have been further enhanced to boost productivity, increase quality and accelerate Return On Investment (ROI). • Automatic adjustment of hopper opening and closing intervals enhances speed of response and thus efficiency. Refined HMI: • New 15.6" vertically mounted iPad style touch screen improves visibility for user friendly operation with icon navigation and expanded menu system. Sustainable: • Delivers a 20% reduction in energy consumption compared with previous models. Noise levels have been further reduced by 16db when operating at full speed. • Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world.
IX-PD: Next Generation X-ray Inspection
Key benefits: The new IX-PD (Photon Counting Dual Energy) X-ray series benefits from a superior sensor to offer the highest levels of detection. This technology differentiates, with superb levels of accuracy, between product and low-density contaminants, reducing the rate of inaccurate detection. • Incorporates new sensor and image processing technology that is capable of detecting both low density items (incl. bones in fish fillets) and very small size foreign bodies (such as stainless steel wires) with excellent accuracy • Combined with Ishida’s proven Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Dual Energy technologies, the IX-PD produces ultra high resolution and clearer images than conventional X-ray systems. • Enables the X-rays to be directly converted to electrons, rather than through a photo diode, which increases energy efficiency. • Demonstrated in tests near 100% detection rates for bones in chicken, diced meat and sausages, achieving for bone detection in chicken breast fillets an increase from 40% to 100% compared with conventional X-ray technologies. • Designed for high volume production lines and for densely packed and overlapping food items, which traditionally makes it harder to detect small contaminants. • The IX-PD's ability to recognise with high accuracy the difference between food and foreign body, reduces false detections, enabling companies to maintain stringent quality control procedures without compromising throughput.
QX-500: Revolutionary traysealer: More performance with less space!
Key benefits: Ultimate performance: • 66% increase in cycle speed (from 15 to 25 cycles per minute = 100 trays per minute for a 4-tray tool) helps to significantly increase production capacity. Compact design: • 46% reduction in size (incl. a 44% reduction in machine weight) saves valuable floor space. Energy efficient: • 50% reduction in power consumption and minimal compressed air requirements significantly cuts energy cost. Smart performance: • The QX-500 constantly measures the sealing force and optimises the sealing pressure, temperature and time for each cycle, enabling the traysealer to adapt itself to each packaging format to guarantee the highest pack quality, consistency and integrity. • The QX-500 monitors its power consumption during production to ensure it is running at the most energy efficient setting. Precision control, handling and rapid tool change: • A new tray delivery and transfer system allows smooth tray and product handling to ensure excellent sealing accuracy and spillage free product transfer. • A unique tool change system allows tools to be changed within 10 minutes without the need for manual handling equipment. Sustainable: • Can handle cardboard trays and innovative paper film formats to support the use of sustainable packaging.
X-ray inspection for flow-wrap packs
Key benefits: • Ultra compact X-ray inspection solution designed to handle small flow wrap packs at very high inspection speeds. • Ishida Genetic Algorithm (GA) technology enables any operator to optimise the X-ray system for greater sensitivity to specific foreign bodies. • High speed air reject system ensures pinpoint accuracy in the rejection of contaminated and out-of-spec flow wrap packs. • New service offering for X-ray machines delivers a guaranteed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of less than 3% per annum over a 5-year period. • Reliably detects contaminants such as steel, aluminium, tin, glass, stones, dense rubber, Teflon etc for unrivalled food safety and brand protection.
Snacks bagmaker for flexible pack formats
Key benefits: Superb accuracy and operational efficiency: • Ideal for snacks companies that want to reduce cost and ensure error-free production whilst maintaining a flexible operation to meet changing customer needs. • Boxmotion technology can handle a variety of pack formats (incl. pillow, side gusset, block bottom, chain packs and flat bottom bags) but at the same time offers high speed operation due to continuous motion capability. • Inspira Boxmotion Bagmaker offers excellent performance and pack quality at up to 160 packs per minute with bagmaker noise level of less than 80dBA (at 160 packs per minute). • Shown here with Auto-Splice Technology which delivers faster changeovers while reducing product and film waste and improving production efficiency. Auto-Splice can complete a film splice cycle in just 20 seconds, allowing operators to manage more machines, removing the chance for operator errors and offering significant cost savings. Precision control: • Bagmaker features such as automated film centring, auto-splice film management, automated air-fill technology and other automatic adjustments, help ensure consistent pack quality and reduce operator error. Connectivity: • Pre-configured for Smart Factories: Ishida Sentinel Reporting Pack, included free of charge for life, provides instant visibility of live machine performance from anywhere in the world. Sustainable: • Uses 17% less energy during operation and 25% on standby compared with previous models. User-friendly HMI: • Intuitive 15.3" HMI for easy operation and machine diagnostics. Also provides performance data, with multi-level password access to ensure data integrity.
DACS-GN-F: Top-range Checkweigher
Key benefits: Superb accuracy at high speed: • Ishida force restoration weighing technology offers high precision weighing at very high inspection speeds. Hygienic design: • Available with IP54 / IP65 certification for challenging dusty and wet environments and to meet stringent cleaning requirements. Compliant: • Available full Ishida Retail Reject Confirmation (RRC) to conform with private label codes of practice. Connectivity: • Available with Ishida Sentinel 5.0, a powerful software that captures and manages data from every pack that passes across an Ishida checkweigher and delivers in-depth performance monitoring to drive improved Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).