BARCODINg, LABELLINg & PACkAgINg
IMPROVINg LABEL COMPLIANCE AND quALITY MONITORINg
The new V275 Verification System from Omron is ideal for inspecting and verifying labels and barcodes in medical device manufacturing, automotive labelling, food and beverage secondary and tertiary packaging labels and other applications requiring comprehensive label quality monitoring.
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mron, a global leader in end-to-end automation solutions for manufacturing and other industries, recently launched its V275 Series printer-integrated label inspection and barcode verification
system to help manufacturers in life science, food and beverage, automotive and consumer packaged goods industries more efficiently monitor their product and packaging labels. These industries have a strong traceability need to ensure that labels show the right content, are clearly legible, and contain barcodes that meet mandated quality standards. The V275 is able to grade 1D and 2D barcodes at normal printing speeds
to ISO 15415, ISO 15416, and gS1 standards while also inspecting human- readable content for accuracy and print quality using optical character recognition (OCR), optical character verification (OCV) and blemish detection tools. Logic in the V275 software allows for automated inspection of barcode content to expected values and data formats for both the machine-readable and human-readable information on each label. In the event of a label quality error, the system automatically stops the printer and alerts the operator via an output to a light tower. Since thermal desktop printers are
most commonly used for label printing, Omron has built upon the
strengths of its popular LVS-7510 printer-integrated label inspection system to offer the most tightly integrated and capable label inspection solution on the market. The V275 includes a high-resolution line scan camera and printer controls built into a Zebra ZT600 Series high- performance thermal printer. The web-based user interface runs on Ethernet-based communications from the V275 to the customer’s PC or server and offers label inspection template design, real-time label quality monitoring, template and inspection results data archiving.
Omron
industrial.omron.eu/
LOW CARBON FOOD LABEL ALTERNATIVE COuLD SAVE INDuSTRY MILLIONS Trakrap, which recently won a World Food
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nnovative secondary packaging company TrakRap believes it has solved one of the biggest barriers to fully recyclable
secondary packaging for the food and drink sector, launching TrakCoder, a sustainable, low-carbon alternative to ITF labels which will save millions of pounds per year. At present, LLDPE film (Linear Low-Density
Polyethylene film) used in both cold wrap or shrink wrap which has a paper ITP barcode label fixed to it becomes immediately ‘contaminated’ and cannot be easily recycled. Most recycling plants require different substrates to be separated, leading to almost half (46 per cent) of film with paper ITF Labels being sent to landfill. With around 100 million paper labels printed every year, it is estimated this contributes to almost 600,000 tonnes of LLDPE film going to landfill per year.
Innovation award for its low carbon Trakrap packaging system, has now launched the TrakCoder an ITF label printed onto the same substrate (LLDPE) as the secondary pack. The printer uses a specialist ink which will breakaway during the recycling process, making it affordable and easy to recycle the full secondary pack for the very first time. To create the TrakCoder solution, Trakrap
has integrated a Thermal Transfer Overprinter (TTO) into its packaging system, which uses industry recognised software and is even capable of checking its own print. The printer allows an ITF to be printed on the same substrate as the main pack, removing any chance of contamination. unlike traditional secondary packaging systems, the Industry-4.0 enabled TrakRap
System completely eliminates the use of heat from the packaging process using an ultra-thin stretch film to ‘cold wrap’ products instead, reducing energy usage by as much as 90 per cent and plastic usage and greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 70 per cent. Trakrap believes that combined with its new TrakCoder innovation, manufacturers can expect those savings to be even bigger, with an additional 30 per cent cost saving on labelling.
TrakRap
www.trakrap.com
18 SEPTEMBER 2021 | FACTORY&HANDLINgSOLuTIONS
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