November 8, 2022

Grantek has released a new video. Grantek’s David McKenna shares the label verification story of “When Food (with Cheese) met Food (Lactose-Free)”, along with an overview of Grantek’s Label Verification Solution. Click here to watch the video.

David is Grantek’s Director of Smart Manufacturing Solutions. Grantek’s Label Verification Solution provides limited to no loss of plant footprint, instead of an OEM conveyor/camera system, we mount on the line, saving valuable plant floorspace. Grantek partners with industry leaders like Cognex, Inductive Automation and Rockwell Automation to deliver our Label Verification Solution.

As a CSIA certified control system integrator, Grantek knows that automated product validation is critical to regulatory compliance and quality control. Real-time live images, stored missed images, and an intuitive user interface provide maintenance and operators with all the information needed for seamless integration into any existing production line, or as part of a new installation.

Grantek has coordinated with VP’s of Quality or Senior Directors of Food Safety on an Enterprise, company-wide rollout and how to ensure high standards and a consistent rollout across sites. Our solution is in alignment with American & Canadian regulations, helping you mitigate the Food Safety risk with undeclared allergens. Grantek’s Label Verification Solution provides limited to no loss of plant footprint, instead of an OEM conveyor/camera system, we mount on the line, saving valuable plant floorspace. This Solution can also confirm packaging against actual Quality Specs and the Bill of Material. To do this Grantek uses Industry standard hardware, which ensures flexibility for the future.

Interested in connecting with us? Email info@grantek.com or visit: https://grantek.com/label-verification/ to learn more.

Grantek’s complete solution for Label Verification can provide:
⊙ Enterprise Wide Rollouts – With the project and change management experience from companies with 20-40 plants, and hundreds of lines, Grantek can solve label verification across your entire organization
⊙ MES Integration – Integration with existing MES systems or deployment of new MES applications to provide historical reporting, automatic SKU selection, failed image analysis, or web-based recipe management to maintain a single source of truth.
⊙ Customization – Industry standard PLC, HMI, and vision hardware allows for full customization of functionality, user interface, run rules, line interface, and reject control.
⊙ Defect Detection – The flexibility of Grantek’s solution allows for integration of full machine vision toolset cameras for defect detection, such as wrinkled packaging, label positioning, or product orientation.
⊙ Code Date Inspection – Grantek can seamlessly integrate code date or serialized on-demand printing inspection as part of a full packaging validation solution. Inspection includes both print content and quality.
⊙ Label Verification – Verification of any 1D or 2D barcode from UPC to Data Matrix to Code 128. Expertise with full vision toolsets allows for label verification even on packaging without any barcode.

About Grantek
For over 40 years, top manufacturers in Food & Beverage, CPG and Life Sciences/Pharmaceuticals have called upon Grantek to solve their most complex business and manufacturing challenges. Grantek automates Pharmaceutical and Food & Beverage manufacturing operations, including integration with business systems for seamless solutions. Grantek helps customers meet the stringent requirements and challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Grantek is a system integrator and solution provider with a specialization in Smart Manufacturing solutions, Manufacturing Automation solutions, Industrial IT/Cybersecurity solutions and Manufacturing Consulting services.