JPH05264470A - Tracking apparatus of beer bottle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the tracking efficiency of a defective product of beer. CONSTITUTION:A bar code label is attached to every bear bottle by a bar code labeller. The bottles with the bar code labels are sent to an inspecting/ testing process. Thereafter, the bottles are packed and shipped. For sampling inspection of the bottles in the inspecting/testing process, the bar code of a sampled bottle is read by a bar code reader 3. At the same time, the bar code of a beer bottle which has been returned back as a defective bottle after shipment is read by the bar code reader 3. The product data is analyzed by a computer 4 to take necessary measures.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[Object of the Invention]

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a beer bottle tracking device used for manufacturing control such as cause of defects in bottled beer, equipment maintenance, and complaint handling in a beer manufacturing process.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the manufacturing process of beer production, bottled beer is not managed one by one, and when the bottle is removed as a defective product or for testing in the inspection test process. Manages offline by entering the date and issue line on the paper each time, and manages by date, manufacturing plant, and product type after shipping.

Further, even if a failure occurs in the bottling machine, which bottling port is out of order is determined by each bottling port.
I'm trying to find out the cause.

[0005]

However, in the conventional beer production control procedure as described above, when the beer bottle is pulled out in the inspection test process, the beer bottle is filled in on the paper, so the work efficiency is poor, and the offline control is bad. There was a problem that it took time to analyze the cause, and the response was delayed.

Regarding the management after shipping, there is a problem that it is not possible to respond promptly after the defective product is shipped, because it is not possible to track which bin filling machine and which lot was manufactured. It was

Further, when a failure occurs in the bottling machine in the manufacturing process, it is inefficient to work and it takes time to check each bottling port one by one. Since it largely depends on the operation rate of the machine, it is not possible to meet the demand for shortening the downtime of the bottling machine as much as possible, and there is a problem that the production efficiency of beer deteriorates.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems. By attaching a bar code label to each beer bottle and managing it with a bar code, the work efficiency in the inspection test process is improved. In addition to enabling online analysis of the cause of defects and quick response to defective products after shipping, it also analyzes the bottling mouth of the defective bottling machine to quickly respond to the failure and repair. An object of the present invention is to provide a beer bottle tracking device that can improve manufacturing efficiency by shortening the time.

[Structure of Invention]

[0010]

A beer bottle tracking device of the present invention is a beer bottle manufacturing process, which is installed after a bottling machine, and a bar code labeler for sticking a bar code label to a beer bottle, and an inspection test process. A bar code reader for reading the bar code of the extracted bottle and a management computer for accumulating and analyzing the product information read by the bar code reader are provided.

[0011]

In the beer bottle tracking device of the present invention, a bar code labeler attaches a bar code label to each beer bottle, and the beer bottle with the bar code label attached is passed to the inspection and testing step, and then packed. Ship.

Therefore, in the sampling inspection in the inspection test process, the bar code of the extracted beer bottle is read by the bar code reader, and the beer returned as a defective product after shipping is also attached to the beer bottle. The bar code reader is read by a bar code reader, the product information is analyzed by a computer, and necessary measures are taken.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2 show, as an embodiment of the present invention, a beer bottle tracking device used in a brewing process B as a post-process of a brewing process A in a beer manufacturing factory. After that, a high-speed automatic barcode labeler 2 is provided, and in the inspection / test process D, a barcode reader 3 is provided for each extraction process.

Each of the bin filling machine 1, the high-speed automatic bar code labeler 2 and the bar code reader 3 is connected to and controlled by a management computer 4.

Next, the operation of the beer bottle tracking device having the above configuration will be described.

As shown in FIG. 2, the manufacturing process of beer is as follows.
From the brewing process A for manufacturing the beer 11 itself in the beer tank 10 and the brewing process B for packing the beer 11 into individual bottles 13 by the bottling port 12 of the bottling machine 1 and shipping as a product. It consists of a bottle filling process C and a bottled beer bottle 13
It includes an inspection test process D in which a main inspection is performed to check whether or not foreign matter is mixed, and an arbitrary bottle 13 is extracted and tested. After the manufacturing process B, a process E of packing product beer and shipping it. Will continue.

Then, in the manufacturing process B, brewing data 5 indicating what kind of beer is flown from the brewing process A is input to the management computer 4 in advance and stored in the beer bottle-specific information file 4a. Based on the brewing data 5, information to be printed on the high-speed automatic bar code labeler 2 is sent through the line 6 to start printing on the bar code label.

Upon receipt of the operation signal 7 by the operation of the bin filling machine 1, the management computer 4 sends a bar code label attaching instruction to the high speed automatic bar code labeler 2 through the line 6, and as shown in FIG. A bar code label 14 in which a bar code indicating the information of the beer bottle is printed in a horizontal format is attached to the top of each beer bottle 13.

In the subsequent inspection test process D, as a defective product,
Alternatively, the bar code of beer extracted by an operator for testing or returned as a defective product after shipping is read by the bar code reader 3 into the management computer 4 via the line 8 and is bottled. The beer bottle-specific information file 4a is associated with the data that has been accumulated and managed to manage which beer has been extracted or returned, and the information is also stored in the beer bottle-specific information file 4a by the management computer 4. To be done.

Based on the information from the bar code read as described above, the management computer 4 totalizes and analyzes the data online, and first of all, many bad beers are found. By identifying the location and notifying the location and data to the worker, early detection and handling of the failure location of the beer manufacturing equipment will be performed.

Secondly, regarding the beer returned after shipping, it is determined when and in which lot the bottle was made by the bottle filling machine 1, the pursuit of the cause of the defect, and the same as the defective beer. It is used as information for collecting beer manufactured and shipped in lots.

Thirdly, the management computer 4
In this analysis, it is analyzed whether bad beer occurs every certain period, that is, every number of bottling ports 12 of the bottling machine 1, and if such a tendency is observed, it is determined that the beer has failed. The bin filling port 12 that is open is identified and used as information for repairing the failure.

In this way, it is possible to analyze the frequency and cycle of occurrence of defective products from the bar code information, which can be useful for investigating the cause of defects and equipment maintenance, and from the bar code information of the returned defective products to the defective products. Can be used to collect other defective products by identifying the lot manufactured.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and the sticking position and sticking form of the bar code label may be another method, but the sticking is made on the top of the beer bottle as in the embodiment. In this case, the barcode label does not obscure the contents of the bottle, and there is the advantage that it does not interfere with visual inspection such as foreign substance contamination inspection. By doing so, there is an advantage that a large amount of barcode information can be obtained.

[0026]

As described above, according to the present invention, the defect tracking work of the beer bottle can be efficiently performed, and the defect cause analysis and the facility maintenance can be easily and quickly performed.
Product quality can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing a beer manufacturing process used in the above-mentioned embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the bottled beer produced in the above embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 bin filling machine 2 high speed auto barcode labeler 3 barcode reader 4 management computer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A bar code labeler, which is installed after a bottling machine in a beer manufacturing process and attaches a bar code label to a bottle, and a bar code reader which reads a bar code of a beer bottle extracted in an inspection test process. A tracking device for a beer bottle, comprising: a management computer that stores and analyzes product information read by the barcode reader.