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The solution handles retail packing, carton labeling, and pallet labeling.

The Multiple Packing Line system can accommodate several manual packing stations that can be activated as needed. If five different products need to be packed simultaneously, five packing stations are staffed; if only two products require packing, only two stations are used. This makes the system a flexible solution that is easy and quick to adjust for varying production volumes.

The solution consists of a conveyor system for transporting retail products, two, three, or more manual packing stations equipped with scales and printers, a carton labeling station, and a pallet labeling station.

For example, the conveyor system transports three different retail products past three manual packing stations. The operator at packing station 1 is dedicated solely to packing product A, the operator at packing station 2 handles only product B, and the operator at packing station 3 is responsible for product C.

Each operator picks “their” retail product from the conveyor belt, weighs it, packs it into a plastic tray, prints and applies the product label, and sends the tray onwards on the conveyor belt.

Using a photocell at each packing station, the MPL system detects which packing station the plastic tray comes from and thereby identifies the retail product contained in the tray. When the tray reaches the carton labeling station, a carton label with the correct product information is printed and automatically applied to the carton.

The tray is then transported onward, packed onto pallets, which are sent to the pallet labeling station. This station automatically prints and applies the correct label onto the pallet.

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