A visionary approach to potato packaging Omron’s integrated solution for Greenvale eliminates the risk of packaging and labelling errors Introduction Greenvale is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of fresh potatoes, providing retailers, processors and caterers with both fresh and processed products. The company has built its success by work- ing closely with partners throughout the supply chain, and they turned to Omron when they had an issue with ensuring that cor- rect labels were applied to promotional packs of potatoes des- tined for major supermarkets. The fundamental problem was that if an operator loaded incorrect labels into the packaging machine, there appeared to be no automated way of spotting this and cor- recting the error. Background The packaging process is largely a

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