Apsolute Print Perfection

With traceability being realised as an essential element of any manufacturing process, the UK's leading manufacturer and supplier of compost bags to garden centres was keen to ensure their product range continued to be best in class.

Having experienced ongoing issues with the existing printers, it was time to trial new technology which would give them both product traceability, in the form of a Line/Site/Date/Time stamp code, as well as favourable service levels. Following just a one week trial between two competitive systems, the stand-out winner was the apsolute printer solution from PCS Industries.

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Category: Coding and Marking
Product: Apsolute
Industry: Agricultural / Horticultural

Cap Inspector Ensures Perfect Bottling At Dairy Crest

At the Dairy Crest bottling plants in Liverpool, Fenstanton, and their largest UK dairy in Chadwell, the Non Returnable Container (NRC) lines handle substantial quantities of milk and flavoured bottled products every day. To ensure all products are distributed to customers in perfect condition, a robust and reliable inspection solution remains the key to achieving error proof production. With the comprehensive success of the existing PCS Industries vision solution in operation on a range of its production lines, Dairy Crest was looking to build on the partnership formed with PCS and take further advantage of the noticeable improvements to production levels, by increasing the number of systems in use.

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Category: Machine Vision
Product: Cap Inspector, Cognex
Industry: Food and Drink, Dairy