A fresh produce packaging company that packs its own harvested crops as well as contract packs for other growers was wanting to automate its quality control (QC) procedure regarding checking product weights....

After gaining a new contract for packing baby food, a not-for-profit (NFP) contract-packing organisation wanted to upgrade its metal detection to ensure product was free of any accidental ferrous pieces....

Confused with all the coding and labelling acronyms? Our guide explaining what LPA, LA, TIJ, TTO, CIJ, DOD and LCM all mean makes it simple. Firstly, labelling technologies: 1) Label Printer Applicator...

In 2017, we saw some exciting trends in food manufacturing. Whether you were at shows at home or abroad, there were similarities with what’s on the horizon. Here are five learnings we took from 2017....

Wanting to speed up production and make labelling less labour intensive, one of Australia’s top craft distillers needed a system that was flexible enough to cope with its small, yet constant volumes...

Automated vision inspection has application across a host of industries, doing a host of different checks. And because it’s objective, automated and highly repeatable, it can solve many issues. On top...

If you’re hand labelling or manually applying stickers, but reaching volumes to consider automating the process, there are a few things to think about. Often the challenge is not actually knowing whether...

Choosing which inspection technology to use depends very much upon your need, your product and your industry. For instance to check if goods are out of spec ­– say with missing barcodes or labels, the...

Not being able to count on your equipment to work when production is scheduled, makes it unreliable. And in the manufacturing industry, unreliable equipment has a bigger cost than just in dollars ­–...

Sometimes, the coders on a production line marking products, cartons and pallets, are a rather motley crew — “diverse” models is one way to put it, but “miscellaneous and disparate” could be...