Enhancing Efficiency in the Food and Beverage Industry with Datalogic’s Matrix Stationary Industrial Scanners

Optimizing Barcode Scanning for Maximum Productivity

The food and beverage industry relies on fast, accurate, and reliable barcode scanning to maintain high-quality standards and streamline operations. With constantly evolving government compliance regulations, increasing demands for brand consistency, and the need for efficient warehousing, manufacturers must adopt advanced scanning solutions to stay ahead of the competition.

Datalogic’s Matrix Family of stationary industrial scanners offers an innovative approach to barcode scanning, ensuring food and beverage manufacturers experience increased throughput, improved productivity, and minimal waste. These scanners provide flexible and high-speed barcode reading, regardless of packaging material or positioning, allowing seamless integration into any production line.

Overcoming Challenges with Cutting-Edge Scanning Solutions

Datalogic’s stationary industrial scanners are designed to meet the unique challenges faced by food and beverage manufacturers:

1. High-Speed Throughput

With the ability to scan up to 50 items per second, the Matrix scanners dramatically enhance production line efficiency, ensuring smooth operation and reduced downtime.

2. Immediate Label Verification

The ultra-compact Matrix 120™ can be installed directly on a labeling arm, verifying labels in real time to prevent costly recalls and waste due to mislabeling.

3. Multi-Angle Synchronized Mounts

The scanners are designed to read round bottle label sleeves and thermo-shrink plastic film at high speeds, ensuring precise barcode capture.

4. Superior Readability on Any Material

With advanced lighting, lens options, and adjustable distances, the Matrix scanners effectively scan barcodes on a wide range of materials, including reflective and damaged labels.

5. Wide Field of View for Enhanced Pallet Tracking

By covering a larger scanning area, the Matrix scanners enable faster processing and ensure complete pallet traceability, capturing multiple labels in a single scan.

Key Applications in the Food and Beverage Industry

Datalogic’s barcode scanning solutions play a crucial role in improving efficiency, accuracy, and traceability across various stages of the manufacturing and distribution process:

Tracking of Primary Packaging

The Matrix 120™ handles barcode scanning for diverse packaging materials, ensuring reliable reading of varied code symbologies, resolutions, and non-uniform sizes. Its compact design allows easy integration into packaging machines.

Barcode-Driven Label and Sleeve Verification

The Matrix 120™ scanner is ideal for installation in labeling or sleeving machines with limited space, enabling inline verification to eliminate labeling errors early in the production process, thereby preventing product recalls.

360° Omnidirectional Label Reading

A synchronized circular array of Matrix 220™ imagers, powered by Datalogic’s proprietary ID-Net protocol, provides dynamic omnidirectional barcode reading for beverage containers, ensuring unmatched traceability.

Print-and-Apply Barcoded Label Reading

The Matrix 120™—the smallest ultra-compact industrial 2D imager—can be directly installed on label applicator arms, instantly verifying package label readability and positioning.

Product Bundle Identification

The Matrix 320™ stationary imager, with up to a 5 MP sensor resolution and multiple lighting options, ensures effective tracking and identification of bundled products. It adapts to wide field-of-view (FOV) requirements and varying lighting conditions, accurately reading uneven and deformed barcodes.

Pallet Traceability

With its wide field of view (FOV), the Matrix 320™ significantly enhances pallet tracking by efficiently reading manually applied or print-and-apply labels, improving supply chain visibility and reducing errors.

The Future of Barcode Scanning in the Food and Beverage Industry

As the food and beverage industry continues to evolve, adopting stationary industrial scanners like Datalogic’s Matrix Family ensures efficiency, compliance, and seamless operations. By leveraging these advanced barcode scanning technologies, manufacturers can optimize production, reduce waste, and maintain the highest standards of quality and traceability.

Invest in Datalogic’s Matrix Stationary Industrial Scanners to elevate your food and beverage operations today!

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