64 | GraphimeccLabelexpo presentation During Labelexpo Europe 2023, Dr Vlad Sljapic will be holding a daily Automation Arena presentation on how converters can develop new business models by offering secure track and trace with unique product IDs to their brand-owner customers. The presentation uses Avery Dennison’s atma.io as an example and will show how codes are obtained and how they are represented on the label by QR codes or RFID.“We see a requirement in the branded goods market today for zero fault certifcation. You simply cannot track and trace your products if there are faults in your system to begin with”L-R Andrea and Ivan Ranzato Vianellosector. works on one integrated, closed-loop and Contract manufacturingEU DPP will be the EU’s offcial method fully-automated system.’ One part of Graphimecc’s Verona HQ is of sharing key information on a product’s An example of how this fts together dedicated to a fully automated ‘lights out’ sustainability and circularity between all is Graphimecc’s Zero W pharma label contract encoding and certifcation facility. relevant parties across the supply chain. inspection and certifcation platform. Graphimecc uses GM Enterprise MAS Responding to the challenge, Graphimecc Unlike standard pharma inspection (Modular Automation System) to generate has developed direct connections with systems, the Zero W is not bi-directional. jobs and launch them into production key track and trace platforms like Avery When a defect is spotted, at operating remotely with just-in-time supervision of Dennison’s atma.io, a Cloud-based product speeds of up to 150m/min, instead of job status. identifcation system that assigns unique reversing the web to inspect the splice ‘With this facility, we can support digital IDs to everyday items, connecting point, create the replacement labels and companies that want to set up new them to the Internet of Things. re-inspect, in the Graphimecc system the operations or enter new markets which This provides businesses with faulty label is instantaneously reprinted require secure encoding, and they do not unparalleled supply chain transparency, - individually or in a full sequence - and have to take risk of choosing the right or by tracking, storing and managing all the passed through the dual inspection camera wrong technology too early,’ says Ranzato events associated with individual products system in a single direction and without Vianello. ‘You work with our encoding lab from source to consumer, to product reducing the linear speed. and you can resell the output as your own disposal or reuse. Every circuit board of the Graphimecc service to your customers until you decide ‘Our automated systems can obtain the system has been designed from the ground what you really need.’unique IDs directly from an external data up by the company to increase data and One job running during L&L’s visit was source, and apply them in an encoding and production throughput, resulting in three to the production of personalized labels for certifcation operation, allowing converters 10 times higher productivity in comparison hang tags. ‘We receive the data at 9 pm and to easily expand their service offer portfolio to standard bi-directional systems. the labels are ready for next-day delivery,’ to brands and offer traceability as a value ‘Buying off-the-shelf systems and OEM explains Ranzato Vianello.add,’ says Sljapic. integrating them was not an option - One huge beneft of running this otherwise you have to downgrade your own operation is to create feedback for the Bespoke machinery tech to make it work with other peoples’ software and systems being developed in Graphimecc’s machine systems need to be kit,’ says Ranzato Vianello. Graphimecc’s Encoding Lab. understood in terms of this overall focus on ‘Now we have the ability to correct the ‘We have created an accelerator secure encoding and certifcation. error on the fy and certify it with a second internally to anticipate problems and future The company’s converting machines camera working on the same PC without challenges,’ says Vianello. ‘This is supported are designed to deliver secure variable having to go back and forward.’ by the feedback from our internal data printing, print quality control and The sister machine is for turnkey RFID manufacturing facility, and our research is certifcation of the fnished product, as well label and tag production. The Graphimecc applied there directly.’as RFID encoding, converting and validation Zero RFID W platform operates at speeds Graphimecc is a great example of a where required. up to 120m/min, with electrostatic and company where the sum equals a lot More complex bespoke systems, such as mechanical stress safeguarding and more than the individual parts. Expertise RFID booklet construction and inserting, on-the-fy QA. at the highest levels of product security, can also be provided. It combines tag insertion and combined with in-house software Modular components include the Spark personalization into a single production engineering, bespoke machine design and Jet inkjet module – capable of jetting tactile step and UHF, HF and HF NFC tag types. automated contract manufacturing delivers varnish and Braille up to 270 microns Like the Zero W pharma, the system is a unique resource for label converters, thickness - the Spark RFID encoding fully automated and designed for use by brand owners and the converting machinery module, Spark CAM inspection module, and non-specialist operators. manufacturers with whom Graphimecc defect management and removal. ‘To take out human error is key,’ explains collaborates. ‘We design the machine as part of a Sljapic. ‘We can fully automate, including process from the ground up to deliver a adding robotics, or leave the operator in Graphimecc will exhibit at Labelexpo certain product,’ says Sljapic. ‘Certifcation at some level. Whether the operator is Europe 2023 and Dr Vlad Sljapic is an important part of this. We build experienced or non-experienced does not will present daily on the Automation everything for the machine, and everything matter.’ Arena stand on digital product IDslabelsandlabeling.com