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CoLOS 6
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CoLOS® 6

CoLOS 6 increases production efficiency while reducing coding- and printing-related waste. It also protects your brand by ensuring coding integrity and making recalls easier to execute.
Live and historical production reports are available to give enhanced visibility and insights into your coding and printing performance, quality and compliance.

You can run CoLOS from your office, shop floor, or server room. Connectivity to printers, production devices and company data sources is established over Ethernet. And, a user management system ensures employees access the CoLOS interfaces most appropriate to their role and location, from desktop, tablet and mobile devices. CoLOS works within your cybersecurity environment and has various backup options.

 

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CoLOS® 6

Description

 

CoLOS 6 helps you

  • Design text, logo, line, and barcode messages for all printer types, link these to ERP master product tables and to stock-keeping units and automatically populate messages with SKU data.
  • Download complete production line jobs in one step from an easy-to-use operator interface or automatically from line control automation equipment.
  • Instant visibility of printer performance
  • Optimized dashboards
    • Access to your marking and coding activities printer performance from one comprehensive dashboard.
  • Reduced running costs
    • Anticipate changing consumables and identify low printer availability. Review and analyze your historical production data with exported data files.
  • Performance dashboard from any device
    • Access your printer data and performance dashboard from any compatible user interface or mobile device connected to your factory network.

Greater uptime

  • Optimized printer performance
  • Check displays and logs printer pack-rate, availability, and consumable consumption no matter where you are.
  • SMS/Email alerts
  • Get immediate event-based alerts when an incident occurs.
  • Improved operational performance
  • Identify existing bottlenecks and performance losses due to usage issues to implement process improvements on a continuous basis.

Flexible promotional coding

  • Simple to implement
    • The system distributes pre-prepared unique codes from central storage to individual coders. The codes are printed at real-time production rates without the need for expensive local control equipment.
  • Always available
    • Promotion coding can be switched on by production order or individual product code for on-demand promotions or be permanently enabled as needed by the overall promotion.
  • Easier integration
    • The system not only provides integration for the codes to be printed, it produces reports of what codes have been printed that can be exported for use in the end-consumer code redemption system of choice for the promotion.

Efficient brand enhancement

  • Efficient production
    • Using the same coder for date and promotion coding with data-driven control enables greater flexibility and better adaptability to enhance promotional marketing campaigns.
  • Simplified code management
    • Distributing and printing codes at production time rather than at the packaging manufacturer means simplified management of codes to be printed. Last-minute changes of production are easy to achieve.
  • Enhanced consumer dialogue
    • Unique product fingerprints enable the creation of an open dialogue with consumers through mobile marketing activations. Particularly for pointsredemption loyalty schemes.