To help keep your company's reputation intact Eriez Magnetics Europe are offering a full health check on the installation of permanent magnets used in food processing and production

To help keep your company's reputation intact Eriez Magnetics Europe are offering a health check on permanent magnets used in food processing and production. Coming from the UK's leading specialist in applied magnetics technology, the Eriez calibration Service will help operations and quality control managers sleep peacefully at night, knowing that the magnets they rely on in the production line are doing their job. Foreign bodies in foodstuffs can cause mechanical damage, stoppages, lost contracts or cause product recall - a short list to cause nightmares for any production manager.

'It is all too easy to continue to rely on magnets to carry out separation tasks and remove metal contaminates, but when the performance of magnets becomes impaired through poor maintenance or due to incorrect positioning, the consequences could be crippling to a business,' said Paul Fears, Eriez Sales Director: 'What we are offering is peace of mind, and a genuine quality control health check'.

The Eriez Calibration Service is offered to all food processing companies and provides each customer with a definitive report as to the status of their existing magnet installations.

The report can be used as a calibration certificate within any company's management and quality system, thereby performing a key role in helping to adhere to HACCP guidelines.

The Eriez Calibration Service aims to identify whether magnets are of the correct design and strength, are correctly positioned and are in the right location within the plant to achieve the intended separation objective.

Not only could the Eriez Calibration Service improve the quality control of a food processing and production line, it could also lead to better efficiency and higher productivity.

All magnets are assessed for the suitability of their application as well as for their condition and pulling power.

Recommendations can extend from more frequent cleaning of magnets, to re-orientating magnets so they perform their task more efficiently, to recommending replacement of magnets that are not performing at the required level.

'At the end of the day inefficiencies in the process line will cost money.

Eriez are offering an essential service to show companies where they may have inefficiencies in their magnets, thereby helping to save money in production costs - now that must be worthwhile!' said Paul Fears.