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Automated Inspection and Coding of Cases on Produce Packaging LinesPublished on SBIR.gov (https://www.sbir.gov)
Automated Inspection and Coding of Cases on ProducePackaging Lines Award Information Agency: Department of Agriculture
Branch n/a Amount: $100,000.00
Award Year: 2013 Program: SBIR
Phase: Phase I Contract: 2013-00007
Agency Tracking Number: 2013-00007 Solicitation Year: 2013
Solicitation Topic Code: 8.13 Solicitation Number: USDA-NIFA-SBIR-003848 Small Business InformationRSI SYSTEMS, LLC 4845 GOVERNORS WAY STE B, Frederick, MD, 21704-8333 Hubzone Owned: N
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: N Woman Owned: N
Duns: 826004848 Principal Investigator: Matthew Brown(301) [email protected] Business Contact: David DonVice President(301) [email protected]
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Automated Inspection and Coding of Cases on Produce Packaging LinesPublished on SBIR.gov (https://www.sbir.gov)
Research Institution: Stub
AbstractIn response to recent spinach and tomato/pepper recalls, the produce industry launched the ProduceTraceability Initiative (PTI) to institute electronic traceability standards. PTI created standards formarking produce cases which includes embedding a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), lot/batch,and/or harvest date within a barcode. These new standards present challenges for adoption withinthe industry. Today, unsorted cases are processed on production lines within packing sheds and acommon identification mark is applied to each case. With the new standard, each GTIN product willneed a unique identification mark and due to the number of GTIN products, manpower resources,space availability, and time constraints, presorting cases before imprinting the traceability mark isimpractical. For this SBIR, we propose to develop an automated case identification system capable ofidentifying and directly imprinting the necessary traceability information in-line with existingequipment. Specifically, we will develop flexible coding systems for unsorted GTIN productsprocessed in packing sheds. The goal is to make it easier for industry to comply with the newstandards by integrating into their existing production lines, improve reliability of the electronicmark, and minimize costs associated with implementing the new standards. We will investigate thefeasibility of such a system in Phase I.
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