Industrial tomography apparatus and method for checking the composition of industrial products which comprise a plurality of primary parts

An industrial tomography apparatus (1) comprising:

• a conveying device (3), configured to feed to a scanning zone (4), and respectively remove from the scanning zone (4), products (2) to be inspected;
• a tomography scan device (7) configured to perform tomography scans of the products (2) placed in the scanning zone (4);
• and
• an electronic processing unit operatively connected to the tomography scan device (7) for receiving from it digital data about the tomography scans performed by the tomography scan device (7), and programmed to generate, using that digital data, a virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) of a product (2) scanned by the tomography scan device (7), the virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) being constituted of a plurality of voxels each of which has its own constant density;
• and wherein the electronic processing unit is also programmed to perform a procedure for inspecting the composition of products (2) of known type comprising a plurality of primary parts and having known features, wherein for the products (2) of known type the known features reflect the production and/or packaging specifications, and wherein during the inspection procedure the electronic processing unit inspects the virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) to assess at least one of the following predetermined properties of the product (2):
• the position of one or more primary parts inside the product (2) and the total number of primary parts of a same type inside the product (2).