X-Ray Food Inspection
A leading provider of x-ray food inspection equipment, rentals, and software, ABM X-Ray is a subsidiary of ABM Equipment and Eagle PI’s largest distributor.
Service Overview
Send Product to ABM for Inspection Support
ABM provides contract X-ray inspection by receiving customer products at our facility and performing inspection analysis using high-performing photon-counting X-ray technology.
This service is useful when product needs screening, quality validation, contamination investigation, or short-term inspection capacity without purchasing a full-time machine.
ABM supports both room-temperature and cold-storage inspection needs, making contract inspection accessible across a wide range of food and packaged goods applications.
Why Contract Inspection?
Transparent Service
QA Managers
Find the smallest contaminants possible with the current BEST AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY. We know everyone says they’re the best, just scroll down.
Plant Managers
Streamline your inspection process with our FLEXIBLE SHIPPING options and rapid turnaround times, getting your products back on shelves quickly.
Co-Packers
Customize our inspection services to meet your clients’ needs, with TAILORED BILLING options for your business model, or segmented by your customers.
Small Processors
Avoid the red tape and use our team as yours, with a 24/7/365 SERVICE policy for existing customers.
Large Processors
Reduce exposure to liability with full DOCUMENTATION, PRODUCT IMAGES, and PROOF you used the Best Available Technology.
X-RAY INSPECTION
EQUIPMENT | SYSTEMS | SERVICE
Eagle PI's principal distributors, applications developers, and service providers
Rentals | Contract Inspection | Maintenance & Surveys | Training
The Next Generation Of X-Ray Is Here!
The industry's best-performing solution is now available in 430, 550, RMI 400, 240, and Pipeline models, with others to follow shortly!
X-Ray Inspection
Equipment, Software, And Applications Development
From hardware and software customizations to 24/7 emergency service, ABM Equipment bridges the gap between machine manufacture and in-line performance.
Our in-house engineers, fabricators, and technicians ensure Eagle X-ray machines perform, in practice, as intended.
Traceability & Analytics
DSO Sentinel provides process automation and sophisticated reporting for Eagle customers. DSO automates the validation process, reports abnormalities to managers, saves product images to protect from liability claims, and much more.
Machines By Application
Eagle didn't just bring x-ray to food; they also pioneered fill level, item count, product weight, and even fat content detection for the industry. Their x-ray inspection machines are robust and able to out-perform all competitors in most of the applications we encounter. Don't believe us? Arrange a head-to-head!
Rentals & Inspection Services
With over 30 in stock, our machines can arrive quickly and stay for however long they're needed. If contamination is suspected post-production, we speedily and reliably isolate the contaminant in either your facility or our own and send the rest of the batch on its way.
Highest Performance or Lowest TCO
Whether you want the industry's highest-performing machines or only want to meet a buyer's minimum requirement, ABM/Eagle will likely have the best solution available for your application.
Smooth Rollouts
Having managed global X-ray adoption for some of the world's largest producers, we make implementation simple and clear for everyone, from CEO to operator.
crystal - clear value
Single Energy
Above is an example of the original detection methodology (applied to food by Eagle in the 90's) with one beam into one set of diodes. As you can see, the contaminants are visible, but large density differences are needed, and small contaminants are hard to find. Some companies have single energy only.
Dual Energy
Again by Eagle, dual energy was introduced under the name MDX. By combining two images of different x-ray intensities, it improved performance across the board. But though developed in 2004, most companies still rely on single energy, offering dual energy as a premium option.
Photon-Counting
Yet again, Eagle has turned the industry on its head with photon-counting, released as PXT. A few have adopted the technology but without the same results. We use PXT.
Do you
- Have a consumer complaint?
- Suspect contamination?
- Have buyer requirements?
- Have product flagged by a supplier?
- Need to find out which supplier is giving you bad product?
- Have failing inspection equipment?
- Find yourself facing a recall?
No Problem!
- Call us or submit the form
- solate potentially contaminated product on pallets
- Ship to our facility
- Receive cleared product back (98.6% of it on average)
- Sell it!
Radical Performance
Explore the difference between Eagle’s advanced x-ray technologies, including next-generation generators, photon-counting technology, and dual-energy imaging. Click each image to see how these innovations improve detection accuracy, image clarity, and contamination identification.
Obvious Experience
How well a manufacturer develops a technology is more important than the technology itself—and this is why not all photon-counting, dual energy, or even single energy machines are the same. Similarly, how the technology is attuned to your product makes a huge difference. Many manufacturers use one-size-fits all algorithms so the machines are "plug-and-play" for their customers, but any solution that is "good for all" is excellent for none. And since you're not setting up the machine, why use one that trades quality for simplicity?
ABM has been optimizing x-ray for products like yours since the early days of Eagle, and thus every big advancement since. Our original and most experienced technician operates from our facility and oversees product setup for contract inspection.
Removed Human Error
X-ray performance is determined first by the clarity of your image, and secondly how well you analyze that image. We do not rely on human eyes to identify contaminants in an x-ray image; we use progressive, flexible algorithms that outperform and don't get tired. And although algorithms are harder to quantify than a new technology (like PXT), Eagle's algorithms are also more sophisticated and precise—even than other algorithms.