Packaging
Intelligence
Enable your digital supply chain
The main goal for companies of all sizes is to optimize operations and many see automation and digitalization as the best, most cost-effective ways of achieving this improved performance, reliability, sustainability and efficiency.
That said, their specific priorities − and the extent to which digitalization is involved − vary considerably. That is why customization is key to our Packaging Intelligence solutions offering.
Line & Data Management
Faced with demands to enable greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and cost-effective. Managing many message layouts and sending these to diverse printer types across multiple packaging lines can be time consuming and prone to error. You need to optimize your packaging line data and information processing. Or, better still, you need an intelligent solution that does it all for you − quickly, accurately and economically.
Our Line & Data Management solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, provides seamless manual and automated data and information processing, marking and coding for improved efficiency across all your packaging lines. Leveraging our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, this solution minimizes human error and costs while accelerating changeovers and increasing uptime. It helps ensure product compliance and easily integrates with the rest of our best-inclass equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.
Coding Integrity
Faced with demands to facilitate greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and cost-effective. Coding problems need to be identified before too many items have been incorrectly marked, or worse, sent to market. You need an intelligent solution that alerts you to potential issues quickly, accurately and economically.
Our Coding Integrity solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, confirms that every print is not only present and readable but also has the right data. Potential problems are detected in real time, so you can take action immediately. Leveraging our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, in combination with a fully integrated Cognex camera, this solution reduces product rework, scrap and recalls. It also helps ensure product compliance and easily integrates with the rest of our best-in-class equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.
Coding Integrity
Faced with demands to facilitate greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and cost-effective. It is not uncommon, however, for the wrong pre-printed packaging to be loaded onto a line or for some materials in a bundle to be in the wrong orientation. This needs to be identified before too many products have been marked, or worse, sent to market. Better still, you need an intelligent solution that alerts you to potential problems−quickly, accurately and economically.
Our Packaging Integrity solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, ensures the right pre-printed packaging is used. Leveraging our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, it minimizes waste from incorrect packaging selection and orientation, saving time and money while avoiding recalls. It also helps ensure product compliance and easily integrates with the rest of our best-inclass equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.
Promotional Coding
Faced with demands to facilitate greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and cost-effective. You also need to meet increasing requests to support digital marketing through specially-coded packaging. Usually this has meant using pre-printed materials, printer-based memory cards or buying costly realtime controllers, thereby limiting such campaigns to a few lines. You need a more intelligent solution that can do this for you at scale.
Our Promotional Coding solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, makes it easier to use packaging to run promotions by allowing unique codes to be printed on demand, even at high speeds. Our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, calls up previously generated codes from central servers and sends them by batch into the printer queue so the real-time element is now handled at the printer level. Our solution also helps ensure product compliance and easily integrates with the rest of our best-inclass equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.
Pallet Tracking
Faced with demands to facilitate greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and costeffective. At the pallet stage, labeling is often manual and prone to error. Stock also piles up in production areas given the time it takes operators to process the required data and release the pallets. You need an intelligent solution that cost-effectively optimizes this end-of-line activity to provide you greater accuracy and speed.
Our Pallet Tracking solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, automates pallet labeling and establishes unique, fully GS1-compliant pallet identities. Our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, ensures your stock enters inventory faster and you benefit from improved inventory data management and the ability to execute better targeted recalls. It also helps ensure product compliance and easily integrates with the rest of our best-inclass equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.
Product Tracking
Faced with demands to facilitate greater supply chain transparency for your customers, you need to ensure your coding is correct, compliant and cost-effective. And, to protect your brand from counterfeiting and quality-related-issues, you need to be able to track every single product coming off your production line. Or better still, you need an intelligent solution that does it for you.
Our Product Tracking solution, part of the Packaging Intelligence offer, creates unique product fingerprints which make individual products seamlessly trackable, delivering data reliability and safety for distributors, resellers and users. It can also aggregate product unit coding data to a case or pallet level, so you can scan and track output at every packaging level to ensure full product compliance. Leveraging our market-leading information management system, CoLOS®, it seamlessly integrates with the rest of our best-in-class equipment, as well as third-party information systems* and hardware.