In accordance with the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 5, 2016 No. 2592-r “On Approval of the Strategy for Counteracting Illegal Trafficking of Industrial Products in the Russian Federation for the Period until 2020 and the Planned Period until 2025”, in the short term, the State Commission has identified a number of measures for the following industries: food, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, aviation, agricultural, etc.
We supply solutions for various industries: pharmaceuticals, dairy, brewing, beverage, food processing, tobacco, shoes, tires (car tires), perfume (eau de toilette), cameras (flash lamps), etc.
VEKAS has developed several solutions in collaboration with manufacturers of industrial printers and machine vision systems. The solutions are a VEKAS-ACS hardware and software system that fully meets the requirements of Mercury and the Cjestniy Znak for the dairy industry. The solution consists of two parts – ACS and MCOS (software description can be downloaded in the documents below).
Solutions fall into two categories – automatic and manual systems.
Automatic systems enable full automatisation of marking, reading codes, control, etc. Designed for high-performance lines.
Manual systems are the lightest solutions that can be labeled, monitored and then entered into a database using a computer, handheld barcode scanner or autoscanner with hand feed product and software.
Accounting automation object
The object – an automatic system of piece accounting (ACS PC) has three control points for finished products: a single product zone, a box formation zone and a pallet formation zone. The product passes each of the zones and the finished product is automatically recorded.
Single product area
When the product passes the unit product zone, the following technological operations are carried out
Code application on the product by a DataMatrix laser printer;
Controlling the application of the DataMatrix code using a verification scanner;
Emergency line stop in case of multiple errors of the DataMatrix code verification.
Box forming area
The following technological operations take place in the box formation area
Placing several products in one box;
Reading DataMatrix codes of all products in one box;
Controlling the read DataMatrix codes of all products in the box;
Generating a label with the DataMatrix code for the box;
Sending a task to print a label to the printer;
Aggregating printed DataMatrix box code with DataMatrix product codes;
Rejecting boxes with errors in reading or checking DataMatrix product codes.
Pallet forming area
The following technological operations take place in the pallet formation area
Adding DataMatrix box codes to the list of formed pallets;
Stacking boxes on a pallet;
Generating a label for a pallet in software;
Sending a task to print a label with a pallet code to a thermal transfer printer;
DataMatrix aggregation of box codes and printed pallet code.
System’s main functions
Obtaining codes;
Transferring DataMatrix product codes to the printer;
Applying DataMatrix code to products;
Controlling the application of a DataMatrix code to the box;
Emergency line stop upon detection of products with unreadable codes;
Reading DataMatrix product codes from the box;
Generating DataMatrix code and accompanying human-readable information on the box label;
Reading the box code printed on the DataMatrix label;
Connecting the DataMatrix box code with the DataMatrix codes of the products that are placed in this box;
Rejecting boxes with unreadable DataMatrix product codes;
Rejecting boxes in case of discrepancy between DataMatrix product codes and codes obtained;
Controlling the correspondence of the number of boxes in the pallet to the specified value;
Generating a barcode and related human-readable information on the pallet label;
Reading the pallet barcode printed on the label;
Connecting the pallet barcode with the DataMatrix codes of the boxes included in this pallet;
Ability to determine the rejection reason, informing the line operator of the necessity to perform regulated actions;
Maintaining a database and obtaining statistical reports (all actions and events);
Forming and storing an archive of recipes for a technological line with the ability to select the current one;
Generating report files with any given structure with the ability to transfer over the network;
Possibility of data import/export with company’s data systems according to a separately agreed-to algorithm;
User-friendly human-machine interface with different access levels.
In accordance with the order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated December 5, 2016 No. 2592-r “On Approval of the Strategy for Counteracting Illegal Trafficking of Industrial Products in the Russian Federation for the Period until 2020 and the Planned Period until 2025”, in the short term, the State Commission has identified a number of measures for the following industries: food, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, medical, automotive, aviation, agricultural, etc.