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Innovative Label Print and Apply System uses Touch Screen Technology

Client

As a leading UK food producer, Premier Foods manufactures some of the nation’s favourite foods including Hovis bread, Mr Kipling cakes, Sharwoods Asian foods, OXO stock cubes, Batchelors soups and noodles, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Bisto gravy, Quorn meat-free products, Ambrosia custard and rice pudding, Branston Pickle and Hartley’s jams and marmalades and Jelly. In fact, their top ten brands alone have retail sales of over £1.1 billion.

Industry sector

Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco.

Challenge

To achieve reliable and improved capacity in label printing and application for traded-units on its canning lines.

Solution

Advantech TPC642 Touch Screen Computers.

Implementation

The touch screen computers were positioned on the line close to the operator.

The panels were connected between the central database and the Cobalt IS print and application machine. The unreliability caused by the serial multiplexers was completely eliminated by the use of Ethernet networking connectivity.