Product Output: Quality and Coding

CoLOS Mark & Read

To help you control your production outputs, CoLOS® Mark & Read confirms that every print is consistently present, readable and contains the right data, using a fully integrated Cognex camera.

Stop waste, inefficiency, and non-compliance

• Ensure print quality is scanned and checked 100% of the time even in the most complex of applications.
• Detect immediately when codes are missing, unreadable or inaccurate preventing lost hours of production printing incorrect codes and having to recall wrongly coded products.
• Ensure package design and branding are not damaged by defective codes.

Select a solution for every application

• Check your code presence or absence with Cognex In-Sight 2000 Series configurable with all print technologies.
• Verify Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and barcodes with DataMan 300 Series for medium speed and flat surface applications, also applicable for high-speed resolution.
• Verify OCR with Cognex In-Sight 7000 for high speed and curved surface applications and modest print resolution purposes.

CoLOS Packaging Integrity

To ensure proper product distribution and compliance, CoLOS® Packaging Integrity helps you check that pre-printed packaging materials are correct for every individual product being manufactured.

Correct packaging

• Automatic verification using the most appropriate identification devices ensure that the packaging material matches the product selected to run on the line.
• Each and every packaged product is checked during the production run and any individual faulty packs can be rejected or the line stopped if all packaging is wrong.
• Links to company host information systems to ensure that the same formally approved data is used for both product coding and packaging verification.

Efficient brand protection

• Stopping the production line as soon as incorrect packaging is detected will ensure that incorrect product will not build up, possibly only detected at the next manual inspection.
• No impact on production rates and no need for frequent manual inspection routines to detect small numbers of wrongly loaded packaging.
• Ensures that the packaging matches the production order eliminating allergen recalls for pre-printed ingredients not matching the product being packed.