Corner Office teamed with ACCRAPLY, Canada to design and implement a labeling Middleware application to drive ACCRAPLY print and apply units at Philips Lighting.

This Philips plant has three case packing units to package lamps. Each case packer supports two lamp production lines. The case packer PLC "pulls" lamps from one of the two production lines at random. With previous manual labeling of each case, both production lines had to run the same product on a case packer.

Now, the Philips shop order for each line is setup in the Corner Office Middleware application. As the case packer pulls lamps for packaging, the PLC sends a signal to the middleware PC indicating which line was "selected". The middleware then sends the required label to the ACCRAPLY print and apply unit for label printing and application on the case.

The Middleware software also automatically provides Philips production management with on-line product counts by shift and line.

> Corner Office software and Philips printer/applicator testing at ACCRAPLY, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

Jim Schornagel, Philips Project Engineer, holding one of the newly labeled cases.