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Traceability of packaged consumer products

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-09-12
TETRA LAVAL HLDG & FINANCE SA
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The invention provides a solution for tracking and identifying objects or people, which helps to address this need.

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However, this approach is computational resource demanding and hence may prove to be hardly practicable in Packaging Systems with high package production rates.

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[0018]The following description is provided to enable a person skilled in the art to make and use the invention. Various modifications to the embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, without departing from the scope of the present invention as claimed. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown, but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features disclosed herein and defined in the appended claims.

[0019]FIG. 1 shows a schematic layout of a new generation Packaging System in a Packaging Plant.

[0020]The Packaging System is of the type described in WO 2009 / 083594, WO 2009 / 083595, WO 2009 / 083597 and WO 2009 / 083598, all in the name of the Applicant and the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference, and includes one or more Packaging Lines, only one of which is shown in FIG. 1, and which are automatically configurable to produce Packaged Consumer Products.

[0021]A Packaging Line inc...

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Abstract

A Packaging System comprising: a Packaging Line producing and packing Primary Packages to form Secondary Packages, Secondary Packages being produced in a sequential order and formed with Primary Packages in a sequential order; and a Package Tracing System allowing Primary Packages to be traced; wherein the Package Tracing System is configured to: compute, for each Secondary Package, a Primary Package Sequence Number for the first Primary Package in the Secondary Package and a Primary Package Sequence Number for the last Primary Package in the Secondary Package; compute, for each Secondary Package, a Primary Package Production Time for the first Primary Package and a Primary Package Production Time for the last Primary Package, based on the corresponding Primary Package Sequence Numbers; and store in a repository Primary Package Production Times for the first and the last Primary Packages in the Secondary Packages, along with associated Secondary Package Identifiers.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates in general to packaging of consumer products, and in particular to traceability of Packaged Consumer Products, specifically perishable products such as pourable food products, to which the following description specifically refers purely by way of example.BACKGROUND ART[0002]As is known, on a factory floor of a food packaging plant, several specifically-aimed processes are generally performed, including incoming food and packaging material storage, food processing, food packaging, and package warehousing. With specific reference to pourable food products, food packaging is performed in Packaging Lines, each of which is an assembly of machines and equipments for the production and handling of packages, and includes a Filling Machine for the production of the packages, followed by one or more defined configurations of downstream Distribution Equipments such as, accumulators, straw applicators, film wrappers, and cardboard packers, con...

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IPC IPC(8): B65B17/00
CPCG05B19/4183G05B2219/31424G06Q10/08G05B2219/32389B65B17/00G05B2219/32026Y02P90/02
Inventor BERGMAN, BJORN
Owner TETRA LAVAL HLDG & FINANCE SA