EP0945350A1 - Identifizierungs- und Ortungsverfahren von verpackten Produkten wie Früchten oder Gemüse, und Anlage zu dessen Durchführung - Google Patents

Identifizierungs- und Ortungsverfahren von verpackten Produkten wie Früchten oder Gemüse, und Anlage zu dessen Durchführung Download PDF

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EP0945350A1
EP0945350A1 EP99400717A EP99400717A EP0945350A1 EP 0945350 A1 EP0945350 A1 EP 0945350A1 EP 99400717 A EP99400717 A EP 99400717A EP 99400717 A EP99400717 A EP 99400717A EP 0945350 A1 EP0945350 A1 EP 0945350A1
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Jean-Luc Delcasse
Patrick Deschastres
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B65/00—Details peculiar to packaging machines and not otherwise provided for; Arrangements of such details
    • B65B65/003—Packaging lines, e.g. general layout
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/02—Packaging agricultural or horticultural products
    • B65B25/04—Packaging fruit or vegetables
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices

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  • the present invention relates to the management of the process of treatment of products such as fruit moving on a chain mechanized.
  • the invention relates to a method and a system allowing the permanent collection of information linked to batches homogeneous products and exploit this information, in real time or in hidden time, on all or part of the process from harvest to the final packaging.
  • Fruit harvesting, sorting and packaging operations have long been carried out on a scale and according to artisanal methods, due to the seasonal nature of the fruit and vegetable activity, and difficulty automating tasks involving the appreciation of criteria such as size or degree of ripeness of the fruit.
  • Patent application GB 2 288 171 A thus teaches a monitoring device processing of meat packaging boxes. But such devices do not not allow to associate with each box information related to the operator packing the products in the box, and it is thus not possible analyze the work performed by operators.
  • the object of the invention is to meet this need.
  • treadmills or the like conveyors 10 are placed at the outputs of a grader 20.
  • the grader sorts products according to their size, and constitutes homogeneous batches which are conveyed by the conveyor belts 10 at the outlet of the grader up to an area not shown in the figure, where the batches will be stored before to be shipped.
  • the device placed downstream of a single output from grader 20 all outputs from the grader leading to similar devices.
  • Each treadmill 10 is associated with a unique packing station where an operator packages the fruit in a container such as a cardboard box shape or tray.
  • Each container has an adhesive label bearing a unique barcode whose role will be explained with reference to the figure 2.
  • Each packing station includes a barcode reader 30 hand shower type for reading container bar codes.
  • the reader 30 can be mobile and manipulated by the operator, or mounted fixed at the edge of the mat 10, the containers having in this case been arranged on the mat so that their label is located opposite said reader 30 during the passage of the container to the reader's right.
  • a device 40 for identifying the operator is also associated with each packing station.
  • the readers 30 and the devices 40 are themselves connected by cables 101 and 102 to concentrators 60, each concentrator 60 being connected to a group of several readers 30 and several devices 40 associates.
  • Each concentrator 60 includes a memory allowing it to store the information transmitted by readers 30.
  • the concentrators 60 are networked by a cable 103 to a management computer 70 to which they transmit the information they have collected.
  • Each hub also has a clock internal to associate with each information (reading a code to bars or a badge) received from equipment 30, 40 connected to said hub 60 information indicating the instant at which the reading of the information has been completed.
  • Another computer 80 is associated with the grader 20.
  • This computer contains the data relating to the batches of fruit: size, variety, category, start and end time of batch creation, and other data characteristics of the lot.
  • the computer 80 associated with the grader 20 is connected to the management computer 70 for him transmit the batch data by a cable 104.
  • FIG. 2 another embodiment of the computer associated with the grader and the management computer.
  • the operator identified himself during his assumption of position by reading a personal magnetic badge by the reader 40 badges.
  • the operator's identity is transmitted with the number of the packing station corresponding to concentrator 60 which, thanks to its internal clock associates with this identity the time of taking up the post by the operator.
  • the fruit conveyed are packed in 210 by the operator in the containers.
  • Containers have previously been provided in 220 with a label bearing a code to bars uniquely identifying the container, and the type of said container.
  • the operator reads in 230, thanks at the hand shower 30 of the packing station, the barcode of the container. This reading can also be done automatically when passage of the container to the right of a fixed hand shower 30.
  • the information of the container are associated with the identity of the operator previously supplied to the concentrator 60 by the magnetic badge reader 40, and to the station packing (for example by post number) in 240. All of these data are transmitted in 250 in real time to the concentrator 60 to which is connected the spray 30 of the packing station.
  • the data thus grouped is associated by the concentrator with the time of reading the bar code from the concentrator clock, then transmitted, always in real time, by the concentrators 60 to the management computer 70 at 260 by the links 103.
  • a concentrator 60 cannot, as indicated in 270, transmit its data in real time to the management computer 70 (problems of connection, supply of the management computer, memory, ...), said data are stored at 280 in the memory of said concentrator 60, the latter reiterating at regular intervals his attempted transmission until that the data is actually received by the management computer 70.
  • said system concentrator is provided with a dedicated buffer battery.
  • the management computer 70 also has the data relating to batches of packaged fruit, said data having been described above. These data were compiled in 290 by the computer 80 associated with the grader 20.
  • the batch data are transmitted in 300 to the management computer 70 by the wired link 104 between the computer 80 associated with the grader and the computer 70.
  • the barcode reading time allows the computer to management 70 to associate in 310 the data associated with each container and listed above, to the batch of fruit being built up in the grader 20.
  • this association is made by comparing the time of reading the code to container bars and batch start and end times by grader 20, in order to associate the packaging operations concerned to the time window corresponding to the batch.
  • the system according to the invention therefore makes it possible to constitute files gathering, for each packaging container, the data of the containing, operator, packing station, packing operation and packaged fruit.
  • the files can then be used for analyze the performance of the packaging process, and in particular to establish the cost prices of the lots packed according to different axes of analysis (by category, by variety, by packaging station, etc.).
  • each harvest container has a radio tag with information identifying said container individually (it could of course also be a barcode or any other information readable by machine).
  • Each picker is personally provided with a device portable including radio player for reading information from containing on the radio label, and a memory connected to said radio reader.
  • the picker When taking up the post, the picker separates said portable device from a electric charger located in a transport vehicle, the portable device keeping in mind the pick-up time.
  • the picker leaves his post he hangs up said device portable on the electric charger, the portable device then keeping in remember the time when the picker left his post.
  • the picker In association with the loading of each container, the picker then reads the information from said portable radio player container, which are transmitted to the memory of the portable device, and associated with the fruit data programmed at the start of task, as well as at the time of reading.
  • the information carrier of the container can also be a bar code carried by the container label; in this case the reader of the portable device is a handheld shower capable of reading said bar codes and connected to the memory of the portable device.
  • the fruits in the crate are then transported to the installation of conditioning, and the information contained in the memory of each portable device are unloaded in a management computer for y be stored and processed in the same way as in the first mode of realization of the invention.
  • portable devices are not personally associated with a picker, the picker must then identify himself with a personal code when taking up his post.
  • the computer of management can then store and process information indifferently relating to batches of fruit having been grouped either at the place of harvest, either in the packaging installation.

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EP19990400717 1998-03-26 1999-03-24 Identifizierungs- und Ortungsverfahren von verpackten Produkten wie Früchten oder Gemüse, und Anlage zu dessen Durchführung Expired - Lifetime EP0945350B1 (de)

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FR9803749A FR2776620B1 (fr) 1998-03-26 1998-03-26 Procede d'identification et de suivi d'emballages de produits tels que des fruits ou des legumes, et installation pour sa mise en oeuvre

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FR2811964A1 (fr) * 2000-07-21 2002-01-25 Compucal Procede de suivi d'emballage de produits tels que des fruits
WO2002068272A1 (en) * 2001-02-27 2002-09-06 P & G Developments Pty Ltd Material handling system and method for products manually processed
US7080737B2 (en) 2002-05-02 2006-07-25 Fps Food Processing Systems B.V. Method and system for automatically sorting and packing products

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FR2629237A1 (fr) * 1988-03-28 1989-09-29 Supervox Sa Procede et dispositif de comptage de produits aptes a etre emballes
GB2288171A (en) * 1994-04-08 1995-10-11 Goldstar Exports Monitoring goods handling

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US4375855A (en) * 1980-11-25 1983-03-08 Floyd Ueal D Transportable produce processing house
FR2629237A1 (fr) * 1988-03-28 1989-09-29 Supervox Sa Procede et dispositif de comptage de produits aptes a etre emballes
GB2288171A (en) * 1994-04-08 1995-10-11 Goldstar Exports Monitoring goods handling

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FR2811964A1 (fr) * 2000-07-21 2002-01-25 Compucal Procede de suivi d'emballage de produits tels que des fruits
WO2002008060A1 (fr) * 2000-07-21 2002-01-31 Materiel Pour L'arboriculture Fruitiere Procede de conditionnement de lots de produits tels que des fruits
WO2002068272A1 (en) * 2001-02-27 2002-09-06 P & G Developments Pty Ltd Material handling system and method for products manually processed
US7080737B2 (en) 2002-05-02 2006-07-25 Fps Food Processing Systems B.V. Method and system for automatically sorting and packing products

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