EP2655196B1 - Verfahren und fertigungsanlage zur fertigung und verpackung von zigaretten - Google Patents

Verfahren und fertigungsanlage zur fertigung und verpackung von zigaretten Download PDF

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EP2655196B1
EP2655196B1 EP11782058.9A EP11782058A EP2655196B1 EP 2655196 B1 EP2655196 B1 EP 2655196B1 EP 11782058 A EP11782058 A EP 11782058A EP 2655196 B1 EP2655196 B1 EP 2655196B1
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Michael CZARNOTA
Hartmut LEVERS
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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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • B65B19/32—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to incorrect grouping of articles or to incorrect filling of packages
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/02—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, slitting, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging
    • B65B61/025—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, slitting, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging for applying, e.g. printing, code or date marks on material prior to packaging

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  • the invention relates to a method for packaging products, in particular cigarettes, in a production and / or packaging installation in which at least one production unit of the system is supplied with packaging units of a lower packaging stage, which packages the production unit in associated higher-level packaging units such that the packaging units each of the higher packaging stages comprises one or more lower packaging unit packaging units.
  • packaging means any assignment of a lower-level packaging unit to a higher-level packaging unit.
  • packaging units "boxes” can be packaged in a packaging unit "pallet” on which put the boxes become.
  • the higher-level packaging unit therefore does not necessarily surround the lower-level packaging unit spatially, not even partially.
  • the EP 1 459 988 A1 to apply to the packaging of the packaging units of the individual packaging levels codings, each carrying information about the content contained in the packaging units.
  • these codings carry information about the smaller packaging units contained in the packaging units.
  • the encodings of the lower-level packaging units are read out in the manufacturing process for this purpose before the packaging units are fed to that production unit which packs this lower-level packaging unit into the higher-level packaging unit assigned to it.
  • the encodings read are therefore used as information in the generation of encodings. which are then applied to the higher-level packaging units. This creates an association between the packaging units of different stages.
  • the disadvantage here is, inter alia, that at the high process speeds in the packaging industry, the readout of the codes and in particular the analysis or the processing of the read codes to be applied to the packaging units higher levels coding is very difficult to implement.
  • the codes on the higher-level packaging units, which carry the information about the lower-level packaging units, must imperatively be applied to the packaging units during the ongoing production process. A prefabrication of, for example, bar blanks with already applied coding is not possible.
  • the object of the invention is achieved by a method having the features of claim 1 and a manufacturing system with the features of claim 18th
  • the method of the aforementioned type is characterized in that a camera images of the packaging of the respective manufacturing unit to be supplied or already supplied packaging units lower level and receives (usually additional, but possibly the same) camera images of the packaging of those packaging units higher level respectively associated with the lower level packaging units, ie, each of which comprises the lower level packaging units.
  • the recorded images of the packaging of each associated packaging units are also each assigned to a common identifier.
  • the recorded images are then stored in a data memory, such as a hard disk of a computer device, together with the common identifier.
  • a further advantage of the invention is that the recorded images of the packaging units form an optimum documentation basis for the purpose of verification in the manufacturing process.
  • a coding is expediently applied to each packaging of the respective packaging unit, which enables the identification of the specific packaging unit.
  • This coding is preferably unique.
  • unique in this context refers to the production of at least one batch of the relevant packaging unit. At least in this batch, preferably over many batches, the coding should be used only once.
  • the coding can in principle also carry further information, such as information about the manufacturer of the respective packaging unit, about the production unit that produced the packaging unit, about the production date or the production time and much more.
  • the images of the packages are then recorded in such a way that these codings located on the packages can be recognized in the images.
  • the encodings of the packaging units can be read from the recorded images by automatically extracting the respective coding from the images and converting it into a usable data form, for example by means of a suitable OCR program, using suitable image recognition software.
  • This analysis advantageously does not have to be done in the manufacturing process, but can be done downstream if necessary.
  • the captured images of the packaging units can be stored in an embodiment of the invention unprocessed in the data storage or archived. If, for example, the traceability of a specific higher-level packaging unit is then necessary at a later time, the corresponding image of this packaging unit can be retrieved from the data memory and, if necessary, analyzed. In any case, the common identifier assigned to the image then makes it possible to determine or recall from the data memory one or more of the lower-level packaging units associated with the common identifier.
  • the images of the first packaging stage can be linked to the images of the second packaging stage via a first identifier, the images of the second packaging stage to the images of the third packaging stage via a second identifier Identifier, the images of the third packaging stage with the images of the fourth packaging stage via a third identifier, etc.
  • Each manufacturing unit may use as common identifier a local, machine-internal identifier, preferably a counter number. This is preferably generated directly by the production unit or the control device thereof.
  • the respective identifiers of the respective production units do not have to match or be linked with each other in any other way.
  • This embodiment with identifiers unlinked via the packaging stages has the advantage that the respective identifiers or information derived therefrom do not have to be forwarded from one production unit to the next. This embodiment enables particularly high production speeds.
  • the images of the packaging units of all packaging stages would also be linked directly to one another.
  • the images of the packaging units of the respective lower packaging stage could be analyzed directly in the process and the respective codes of the packaging units read from them before or when they are packaged in the higher-level packaging units.
  • the corresponding identifier can be determined, which was assigned to this encoding in the previous packaging stage. The identifier thus determined or an identifier derived therefrom can then also be used for the current packaging stage.
  • the packaging units As for the recorded images of the lower-level packaging units, a single image can be taken per packaging unit. In general, however, the packaging of several, d. H. a group of packaging units are taken together in an image. This is particularly useful when the packaging units, in particular cigarette packs, are arranged in groups in the production unit or in conveying processes between the production units in any case. This is the case, for example, when ten packs of cigarettes are usually grouped into a bundle pack, referred to below for short. Such an image of the cigarette pack group may be picked up, for example, when the pack group is located in the pocket of a revolver of the rod-making bar packer.
  • the images of the packaging of the lower level packaging units are taken before or while those packaging units are in the manufacturing unit that packages these packaging units in the higher level packaging units.
  • the respectively assigned packaging unit or the respectively assigned lower-level packaging unit group is located in the abovementioned production unit.
  • a group of cigarette packs may already be partially wrapped in the package of the bar, namely in the correspondingly folded bar blank, with the packet sides of the cigarette packs provided with the codings still being accessible, i. H. not yet covered by the corresponding section of the bar blank.
  • a camera assigned to the bar packer can capture these pack sides, for example their undersides, of the cigarette packs or take a corresponding image and the same camera or possibly another camera can take a picture of the pack of the bar, that is the bar cut with the bar cut thereon bar coding.
  • the image of the packaging of the higher-level packaging unit is taken after the higher-level packaging unit has been completed, ie preferably after the higher-level packaging unit has already left the production unit with its lower-level packaging unit / packaging unit group.
  • the lower-level packaging unit or group is followed up during the packaging in the production unit, until the image of the higher-level packaging unit is picked up.
  • the follow-up can be done, for example, by means of a sliding register associated with individual conveyor elements, in particular conveyor pockets or the like, of a conveyor to which the packaging unit or lower-level packing unit group is assigned during the manufacturing process and, if necessary, during subsequent conveyor operations.
  • the respective common identifier in a particular embodiment of the invention it is superimposed immediately before, during or immediately after the images of the packaging of the packaging units are taken into the respective current camera image, so that it is integrated directly into the recorded image. or it is subsequently inserted by means of suitable software in the already recorded image.
  • the respectively recorded or generated images can then be stored together with the inserted or inserted identifier in the data memory. It is also conceivable to associate the identifier with the respective images in the usual database technology. Then the identifier would be written in a database in a field associated with the image or images associated with the identifier.
  • the codes on the packages are concerned, they can already be arranged on the pre-produced blanks or alternatively they can be applied to the respective packaging during the production process by means of a suitable printing unit.
  • images of packaging units to be rejected out of the manufacturing process of the production and / or packaging installation as bad packaging units can be accommodated.
  • Poor packaging units are units which, for whatever reason, are usually removed from the actual production process because of a lack of quality.
  • the images of the bad packaging units are expediently also such that the codes located on the packages of the packaging units can be recognized on the respective images taken.
  • the recorded images of the bad packaging units to be ejected are then preferably also stored in the data memory for documentation.
  • the codes on the bad packaging units can also be read out directly by means of suitable detection devices, in particular also cameras, and optionally stored in the data memory.
  • a hood sensor assigned to a protective hood supplies a signal as soon as the protective hood of the manufacturing unit monitored by the sensor is opened.
  • information representing the occurrence of the hood signal is associated with at least one of those images of packages taken at the time of the signal.
  • at least all of the packaging units currently located in the production unit are assigned such information. Background of this measure is that with open hood located in the manufacturing unit packaging units, for example, manipulative, could be replaced by external packaging units. The assignment of the aforementioned information to these packaging units marks these as potentially unsafe.
  • the information representing the occurrence of the hood signal can be stored, for example, together with its associated image in or in the aforementioned data memory.
  • the coding of the packaging units identifying the packaging units can be read out during the production process and compared with default values stored in a memory, for example target codes.
  • the readout of the codes can be done by direct reading of the same in the manufacturing process by means of suitable readout.
  • the codes can be read in the manner described above from the corresponding, recorded with a camera, stored in the data memory images of packaging of the packaging units.
  • the packaging units can then optionally be removed from the production process.
  • the read-out codes can be compared with a set of desired codes interposed in the memory.
  • the packaging unit associated with the read-out coding can be removed from the manufacturing process.
  • the comparison with default values can also consist of checking the structure of the read-out codes on the basis of the default values. If the structure does not match a given structure, the packaging units are recognized as "foreign".
  • the embodiment shown in the drawings relates to a manufacturing and packaging plant for the manufacture and packaging of cigarettes, namely a so-called line.
  • the plant comprises a number of production units, namely, for example, a cigarette maker 10 - maker - a subsequent packaging machine 11 - packer - a film wrapping machine 12 - cello -, a packaging machine 13 for producing containers or bars 14 from multiple cigarette packs 15 - rod packer -, a cartoner 16, which packs the packaging container 14 in shipping boxes 17 and a palletizing robot 18, which groups the cartons 17 on pallets 19.
  • the individual production units 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18 are connected to each other by suitable conveyors, such as conveyor belts, conveyor chains and the like in a conventional manner, so that the production is designed according to the principle of series production.
  • the production units 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18 are therefore arranged one after the other in the direction of the production or production flow.
  • the manufacturing and packaging plant packages the cigarettes produced by the Maker 10 in several packaging stages. Packaging units related to the production flow in a lower packaging stage are manufactured, are packaged by the subsequent manufacturing unit in each case in packaging units higher packaging levels.
  • the packaging units "cigarettes" produced by the maker 10 are packaged in the packer 11 in the packaging unit of the next higher packaging level, namely in the packaging unit "cigarette packs".
  • the packaging unit "cigarette packs" As is known, several cigarettes are integrated in groups into one cigarette pack 15 each.
  • the packaging level next higher in the production process is represented by the film wrapping machine 12, in which the individual cigarette packs 15 are wound into a film wrapping in each case. Based on the cigarette packs 15 without foil wrapping, the wrapped packs form 15 higher-level packaging units.
  • the wrapped cigarette packs 15 are then subsequently fed to the packer 13 as lower-level pack units.
  • the packer 13 ten of the cigarette packs 15 are usually packed in the higher packaging unit, namely the bar 14, compared to the wrapped cigarette packs 15.
  • the rods 14 are in turn fed as lower-level packing units to the cartoner 16, which integrates a certain number of rods 14 in groups into the next higher-level packaging unit, namely the individual cartons 17.
  • the individual cartons 17 are finally fed to the palletizing robot 18, which places the finished cartons in groups on pallets 19 as packaging units of the next higher level.
  • the packaging unit of the next higher level comprises one or more packaging units of the next lower packaging stage.
  • the terms "lower level packaging unit” or “Higher-level packaging” are not descriptions of absolute packaging levels, but only descriptions of a relative nature. In principle, it is also conceivable to already consider the packaging unit "cigarette” as a packaging stage in which the tobacco is integrated into the packaging unit "cigarette”.
  • the camera 20a assigned to the packaging machine 11 detects prefabricated blanks 21 for the cigarette packs 15 produced in the packaging machine 11.
  • the cigarette packs 15 are folding boxes.
  • the blanks 21 each have at least one coding 46.
  • the camera 20a is arranged in such a way that the recordings each made by the blanks 21 with the camera 20a each also show the coding 46.
  • the prefabricated blanks 21 can already be provided with the codes 46 as part of the prefabrication. Alternatively, it is also conceivable to apply the codings 46 by means of a printing unit 22a only in the production process.
  • the further camera 20b assigned to the packaging machine 11 produces images of individual cigarette packages 15 which are already partially or completely finished in the packaging machine 11 and are discharged from the packaging process of the packaging machine 11 as bad packages, for example because they do not correspond to predetermined quality target values.
  • the camera 20b is arranged along a discharge path along which the bad packages are discharged from the packaging machine 11. In the present case, the bad packages are fed via the discharge conveyor to a shredder 23a for destruction.
  • the camera 20c is arranged directly in front of the film wrapping machine 12 in relation to the production flow. It detects the incoming there, produced by the packaging machine 11 cigarette packs 15th
  • the camera 20e is arranged in the process direction downstream of the film wrapping machine 12, but in front of the following bar packer 13. It detects the cigarette packs 15 produced by the film wrapping machine 12, which are conveyed in the direction of the bar packer 13.
  • the camera 20d is arranged along a corresponding delivery path of the packages 15 and can produce images of the bad packages supplied to a shredder 23b via the discharge line.
  • the rod packer 13 in addition to the camera 20e, the three other cameras 20f, g and h assigned. In later reference Fig. 2 Still further described, the cameras 20g and 20f produce images of the cigarette packs 15 and the partially finished stick 14.
  • the camera 20h is disposed along a pay bar conveying line for detecting discharged sticks 14 before being fed to a shredder 23c.
  • the carton packer 16 is associated with three cameras 20i, 20j, 20k.
  • the camera 20i detects the bars 14 during insertion into the carton packer 16.
  • the camera 20j detects the finished cartons 17 as it exits the cartoner 16.
  • the camera 20k is arranged along a corresponding discharge line for detecting those cartons which are discharged as bad cartons.
  • the palletizing robot 18 is associated with the camera 201, which detects the individual pallets 19, on which the individual boxes 17 are arranged in groups.
  • All of the cameras 20a-20l are aligned in such a way that they can respectively detect the codes which are applied to the detected individual packaging units and / or blanks and identify the packaging units / blanks.
  • the cameras are part of an overall system that - as already mentioned - allows the individual packaging units of different packaging stages to be traced as required.
  • FIG Fig. 2 illustrated in more detail bar packer 13 explained in more detail.
  • the rod packer 13 substantially corresponds to the device according to the DE 100 00 798 A1 , Thereafter, the bar packer 13 comprises two folding units, namely a first folding turret 25 and a second folding turret 26. These are each provided with pockets 27, 28 for receiving groups of packages 43 of two superimposed rows of usually five cigarette packs 15. The manufacturing process in the region of the upper, about a horizontal axis rotating folding turret 25 is initiated.
  • a rod blank 24 is provided to form the packaging or outer wrapping of the rod 14.
  • the rod blank 24 is detected in a conventional manner by the pack group 43 of packs 15 and inserted under U-shaped fold with in the pocket 27. The insertion process is facilitated by a formed from upper and lower fittings mouthpiece 32.
  • an encoding 39 is arranged on each of these subpages.
  • the codings 39 were previously applied in the production process by a printing unit 22b arranged between the packaging machine 11 and the film wrapping machine 12.
  • the coding can still contain information about the date of manufacture and the production time of the cigarette packs 15, about the machine with which the packs 15 were manufactured and much more.
  • the bar blank 24 covers the upper side, the lower side and the radially inward side of the pack group 43.
  • the camera 20g associated with the bar packer 13 is designed and positioned such that, in the illustrated position of the pack group 43, the outwardly facing sides of all the packs 15 the pack group 43 together with the codings 39 arranged on them can capture in an image 41.
  • the rod packer 13 associated camera 20f the upward facing side of the bar blank 24.
  • the detection takes place in a region of the bar blank 24 in which a respective rod 14 identifying coding 40 is arranged , This coding 40 is already printed on the prefabricated rod blanks 24.
  • the packing group 43 is rotated in the pocket 27 by rotation of the folding turret 25 by one clock in a conventional manner.
  • Faltrevolver 25 find various known per se folding operations, which will not be discussed here.
  • the rod contents that is, the packing group 43, together with the partially or already folded-end rod blank 24, are transferred to the second folding turret 26.
  • the individual rods 14 are conveyed along a conveying path in the direction of the cardboard packer 16.
  • the images 41 of the pack group 43 of packs 15 taken by the camera 20g are in FIG Fig. 3a shown.
  • the images 42 of the bar blank 24 taken by the camera 20f are shown in FIG Fig. 3b shown.
  • Corresponding pairs of images 41, 42 are received by each pack group 43 or each associated bar blank 24 inserted into the respective pocket 27 during the production process in the insertion station 34.
  • both the image 41 of the pack group 43 generated by the camera 20g and the image 42 of the pack of bars 43 enveloping rod blank 24 each have a unique identifier 35 assigned by the packer 13. In the present case, this is a count number.
  • the identifier 35 is the same in both images 41, 42, it is therefore a common identifier 35 with respect to the two images.
  • the identifier 35 is thereby generated by the rod packer 13 and / or by the controller 36 of the rod packer 13.
  • the in the following machine cycle of the rod packer 13 in the insertion station 34 inserted into the corresponding pocket 27 of the folding turret 25, to be packaged next pack group 43, and the corresponding next bar blank 24, in which the next pack group 43 is wrapped, receives an identifier 35, which differs from the previous or all preceding identifiers 35.
  • the pack group 43 associated bar blank 24 each have a different common identifier 35 is displayed.
  • the identifier 35 of the next image pair 41, 42 can simply be increased by the value one relative to the identifier 35 of the preceding image pair 41, 42.
  • any type of identifiers can be used as long as the respective identifiers are unique.
  • the uniqueness preferably relates at least to the production of a batch of the product to be manufactured in the rod packer 13 or, if appropriate, in the production plant.
  • the machine controller 36 of the rod packer 13 ensures that the images generated by the camera 20g as well as by the camera 20f are fed to an external PC 37.
  • This external PC 37 stores each image of each pack group 43 or each bar blank 24 picked up in the manner shown, in a corresponding data store, such as on a suitable hard disk.
  • the images 41, 42 recorded during the manufacturing process can be evaluated immediately or at a later time.
  • the cigarette manufacturer 38 can access the stored data as needed and - if required - transmit it to a higher-level authority 44.
  • the images 41, 42 are each still not evaluated in the stored form or not yet analyzed.
  • the codings 39, 40 are not yet read out.
  • the images stored in the store or, if appropriate, in a suitable database can be analyzed.
  • the codings 39 of the cigarette packs or the codings 40 of the bars 14 as well as the identifiers 35 of the respective images can be extracted and read out of all recorded images 41, 42.
  • the identifiers 35 can then In each case, the packs 15 are determined, which were packaged in the context of manufacturing in a specific rod 14. For the respective packs 15 and the corresponding rod 14 are / is in each case the same, identical identifier 35 assigned.
  • the image of the image 42 of the rod blank 24 or of the rod 14 can also be taken after completion of the rod 14.
  • a camera 20m may be arranged along the conveying path, along which the rods 14 are conveyed to the cartoner 16 after completion. The camera 20m then generates images 42 of the rods 14 like the camera 20f in the embodiment described above.
  • the images capture at least the area of the bar codings 40.
  • the controller 36 of the rod packer 13 is therefore aware of which packing group 43 a picture is currently being taken and which identifier 35 of this pack group 43 has been previously assigned by the camera 20g when it was detected in the plug-in station 34. The same identifier 35 is then displayed in the image 42 of the currently recorded rod 14.
  • this coding 40 may be, for example, shortly before Recording of the image 42 by the camera 20m by means of a printing unit 22c are applied to the rod 14.
  • the camera 20h detects rods 14 which, as predetermined quality standards, are discharged out of the manufacturing process before being fed to the shredder 23c.
  • the camera 20h takes in each case the coding 40 of the rods 14 showing images of the corresponding rods 14.
  • the same identifier 35 which has previously been superimposed on the image of the pack group 15 located in the rod 14, can also be superimposed on the images of these rods 14. But this does not have to be the case.
  • the images produced are likewise transmitted to the PC 37 and can thus be analyzed or evaluated by the manufacturer 38. In particular, codings 40 must be extracted and read from the pictures.
  • all packaging stages of the manufacturing and packaging system can be controlled.
  • all of the production units 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18 can be supplied with lower-level packaging units and these can be integrated into a higher-level packaging unit, and the corresponding cameras can take pictures of the lower-level packaging units and images the associated higher-level packaging and these images are assigned by the one or more control means of a common identifier.
  • a guard packer 49 protecting the rod packer 13 against unauthorized interference is shown.
  • This protective hood 49 is associated with a sensor 50.
  • This sensor 50 provides to the controller 36 of the rod packer 13 a signal as soon as the protective cover is opened.
  • the background is the risk that after opening the protective hood 49 individual rods 14 could be manipulatively replaced.
  • At least those images 41 and / or 42 of those bars 14 and / or cigarette packs 15 can each be assigned information representing the occurrence of the hood signal, which information is recorded at the time of the signal.
  • all semi-finished and finished rods 14 and / or cigarette packs 15 are determined, which are located at the time of the signal within the rod packer 13 and corresponding to the images 41, 42 of all determined rods 14 and cigarette packs 15 each associated with the aforementioned information.
  • the assignment of the information can take place by storing in each case a corresponding additional identifier or a corresponding additional feature in the memory of the PC 37 for the individual images 41, 42.
  • the rods 14 may be identified as potentially unsafe or potentially manipulated in the later analysis by the manufacturer 38.
  • Blanks are illuminated, for example, during the manufacturing process of lighting institutions and the thus illuminated blanks are detected by means of optical beauorgane, such as cameras.
  • optical beauorgane such as cameras.
  • a coding on the blanks which can be read in the production process.
  • at least one controllable organ is controlled, in particular a lighting and / or a scholar.
  • the code to be read is advantageously arranged at a position of the blank, which is no longer recognizable from the outside at the respective finished packaging unit.
  • the prefabricated cigarette pack blanks 21 are provided with a corresponding coding 46.
  • the codes 46 are either already present on the prefabricated blanks 21 before the latter are introduced into the manufacturing process.
  • the encodings 46 are read out from the camera 20a.
  • the codings 46 are applied by the printing unit 22a.
  • appropriate organs of the manufacturing and packaging system can be controlled. For example, parameters of the cameras 20b, 20c, 20d, 20e, 20g can be set, which can be used to cut the blanks 21 or capture the cigarette packs 15 produced from these record or take pictures of the same.
  • illuminators 47 that illuminate the cigarette rods 14 while the camera 20m receives the images 42 of the bars 14 in the manner described above may be adjusted depending on encodings 48 applied to the bars 14.
  • These codings 48 can be read, for example, by means of a camera 20n, which detects the individual bar blanks 24 in the region of the insertion station 34 of the bar packer 13, while the blanks 24 are fed to this insertion station 34.
  • the wavelength of the light is adjusted, with which the illumination organs 47 irradiate the rods 14.
  • the codings 48 are arranged in a region of the rod blank 14 which is not recognizable from the outside in the finished rod 14, cf. Fig. 3b ,
  • test products in particular test packaging units and / or test blanks
  • the test products should have one or more defined defects, for example a wrong imprint, wrong dimensions or the like. They have a readable encoding that identifies them as test products.
  • test products serve to test one or more test devices and / or test methods of the production unit or the system. With the help of such testing equipment, the manufactured products are checked for quality defects or the like in the manufacturing process.
  • a readout unit is arranged, which can read the said coding of the test product.
  • test equipment If the test equipment is working faultlessly, the introduced test product will be detected by the test equipment due to the error matched to the test equipment. As may also be the case after the detection of a regular, faulty product, the testing device subsequently expels the test product from the manufacturing process if necessary.
  • test device does not operate faultlessly, the error of the test product may not be detected by the test device.
  • the test product is not removed from the manufacturing process. In this case, the test product arrives at the downstream readout unit. This reads out the coding of the test product.
  • the control of the production unit or of the production and / or packaging installation recognizes the test product as such and generates an error message.
  • the error message finally points to the improperly or incorrectly operating test device.
  • a test cigarette packet could be introduced with a code that displays this as a test pack.
  • the banderole of the test pack would have an error matched to the test device, for example a misalignment.
  • test device for checking the banderole the defectiveness, so the skewing of the banderole recognize, the test cigarette package - as any banderole error having a package - automatically discharged from the manufacturing process.
  • test equipment works incorrectly, the error of the test pack is not recognized.
  • the test pack therefore remains in the Manufacturing process.
  • the coding identifying the test pack is then read out by means of a downstream reading unit, such as a camera.

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