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Automated Print and Apply Systems

August 3rd, 2011 Comments off

Today’s Label Print-and-Apply Systems have extraordinary capabilities. They are rugged and robust and ideal for industrial use. Print and Apply systems are capable of printing anything that a desktop printer can, they can keep up to high speed production lines, are robust enough to run 24 hours a day x 7 days a week, and are easily maintained for maximum uptime.

Carton labels can be side applied, front applied, side and front applied or corner wrapped. Labels can even be top applied at high speeds on variable-height boxes. A packing slip tag showing the contents of a carton can be printed on double sided tag stock and deposited into the carton. For brand protection, we can provide several tamper proof label print & apply solutions, the list goes on and on…

Carlisle Technology can supply label applicators with almost any print engine on the market, however, Carlisle has partnered with Datamax-O’Neil to supply the industry with applicators that utilize the strengths and innovation built into Datamax’s print engines.

Carlisle has extensive experience (20+ years) with many different applications and printing environments. Our expertise comes from working with various applicator manufacturers over the years, as well as from our own experience in building custom applicators. So we know how to match the applicator and the media (labels, ribbons) with your application.

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Produce Traceability

July 27th, 2011 Comments off

The Produce Traceability Initiative (www.producetraceability.org) is an industry-wide effort to bring electronic traceability to the produce supply chain by 2012. Every case of produce must identify the brand owner, the Lot#/Batch#, and the pack or harvest date. Additionally, systems must be in place to record, store, and convey this information for all in bound cases as well as out bound cases. The goal of the PTI is to improve food safety by enabling product tracking throughout the produce supply chain. This is achieved by implementing the GS1 128 standard for labeling and recording producer and production information.

The timeline of the PTI is as follows:

PTI timeline
Carlisle Technology supports the PTI

Carlisle Technology is well-equipped to help produce companies meet and exceed the PTI requirements, in order to provide expanded productivity benefits. With years of experience providing bar coding solutions for the food industry, Carlisle Technology is well ahead of the curve with regards to traceability solutions for produce. We have been providing bar code labeling, scanning, and traceability solutions for the meat and poultry industry in North America since 1988. Our first projects involving GS1 128 bar code labels were in 1993 when Loblaw Company, Canada’s largest grocery retailer, required meat and poultry companies to code cases of catch weight (variable weight) products with the brand new UCC/EAN-128 bar code (now called GS1-128).

Produce Process (typical)

 

Features

  • Suite of mature products
  • Designed using food industry best-practices
  • Out of the box functionality for fast implementation
  • Modular design to allow phased installation
  • Expands to serialized product tracking when you are ready
  • Integrates with external accounting systems
  • Business Intelligence reports to improve productivity

Benefits

  • Meet and exceed PTI standards
  • Efficiently track product within facility
  • Productivity improvements
  • Yield monitoring
  • Labour reduction
  • Material cost control
  • Quality control
  • Brand Protection
  • Risk Management
  • Reduce impact of future product recalls

 

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