Method employing industrial camera to obtain information to warehouse finished cigarettes according to case sealer sets

Abstract

The invention provides a method employing an industrial camera to obtain information to warehouse finished cigarettes according to case sealer sets. The method comprises the following steps: 'NO. 1 project bar code' labels are stuck on finished cigarette cases, wherein the labels contain the equipment number of an automatic printing labeller or a bar code printer, namely cigarette provenance information as well as cigarette mark and specification information; the finished cigarettes are sorted for warehousing, that is, before the finished cigarettes are warehoused, the industrial camera is employed to take pictures to obtain the cigarette provenance information and the cigarette mark and specification information on the 'NO. 1 project bar code' labels, and transmit the cigarette provenance information and the cigarette mark and specification information to a warehousing sorting control system through a network; the warehousing sorting control system sorts the finished cigarettes to various passages by a preset rule of correspondence with case sealers according to the acquired cigarette provenance information and cigarette mark and specification information, and the finished cigarettes are stacked and warehoused, thus achieving the purpose of sorting and warehousing the finished cigarettes according to the case sealer sets. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that a system is simple and reliable, hardware and software investment is lower, and the industrial camera is employed to simply and efficiently acquire case sealer numbers corresponding to the cigarettes to achieve the purpose of warehousing sorting according to the case sealer sets.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of cigarette storage and logistics. Background technique [0002] In recent years, the tobacco industry has strived to achieve system integration, resource integration, and information sharing in accordance with the requirements of a unified platform, unified database, and unified network (ie, "three unifications") in terms of informatization construction. The first project of "Three Systems -" is the "Cigarette Production and Operation Decision Management System" called "Project No. 1". "Project No. 1" determined the overall integration plan of "planned code fetching, logistics tracking, and arrival confirmation". Industrial and commercial data integration and timely, accurate and comprehensive monitoring and management of cigarette production and management in the industry will further improve the scientificity of decision-making management in production and operation of the industry. "Project No. 1" req...

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Problems solved by technology

This method has the following disadvantages in application: 1) Before production, the "No. 1 project barcode" control system needs to send the planned production code segment to the finished product cigarette storage and sorting system through the network. Or when adjusting code sections between units, it takes a lot of work to maintain the "No. 1 project barcode" control system and the relevant data of the finished cigarette storage and sorting system. The relationship between the sealing unit and the sorting channel is confused, which affects production

2) After each barcode reader A reads the barcode, it searches the information from the database for comparison. The large amount of query data brings a great burden to the control system and affects the efficiency

Compared with approach 1, approach 2 solves the problem of rescheduling production or adjusting code segments between units during the production process, but there are still the following deficiencies: 1) Install a barcode reader at the exit of each sealing unit, Large investment, many failure points

2) There is a long physical distance between the export of the case sealing machine and the sorting into the warehouse. The system must record all the barcodes of finished cigarettes within this range. There is also a large workload

3) If barcode reader A and barcode reader B are in the same control system, and both are processed by PLC, due to the limitation of PLC storage capacity and processing speed, it is not possible to store the "No. 1 project barcode" information for too long a period of time , some cigarettes failed to arrive at the storage sorting port within the specified time due to various reasons, the "No. 1 project barcode" information will be lost, these cigarettes will be processed manually, and the system availability will be affected

4) If the "No. 1 project barcode" obtained by barcode reader B is collected by the computer system, and the computer system then transmits the barcode information to the storage sorting system through the network, there are many interfaces and the data processing process is complicated

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