OVOTRACK develops automatic supplier-shift on egg grading machines

With the introduction of the Eggs Cargo Concept, (plastic trays and pallets) automatic loading of grading and breaking machines with depalletisers or robots is increasing. 

However with automatic loading no operator is available for activating a supplier shift when a new batch of eggs is graded or processed. This problem is solved with the Eggs Cargo Identifier (ECI). The ECI is a plastic tag that can be clicked on the top corner of a pallet. The ECI has a barcode that is scanned when a pallet is loaded into the depalletiser. It is than connected to the unique IP-number of a pallet. The barcode is scanned again with a fixed scanner that is mounted on the loader of the grader. At that moment the supplier shift / batch change is activated on the loader. The ECI will activate the dirty tray detection system on the grading machine so that it can be removed easily.

The OVOTRACK ECI solution consists of OVOTRACK Software, an industrial PC, a wireless scanner, a fixed scanner and a couple of ECI's.