Internet of things to lower the labelling risk

A new connected labelling platform may help reduce regulatory risk for device and drug manufacturers.

Labelling firm Kallik is working with Zebra Technologies, a specialist real-time visibility platforms, in a collaboration that will see Kallik’s Label and Artwork Management (LAM) system gain access to factory-floor printers.

Manufacturers commonly have multiple standalone PCs, databases and printers for packaging and labelling output. Once label artwork is approved, it is often received by the manufacturing facility as a PDF, only to be recreated in another software system.

To streamline the process, Kallik is using Zebra’s Zatar Internet of Things (IoT) enablement platform, allowing remote printer applications to be integrated with other software systems. Kallik uses this to extend the controls and transparency of its AMS360 LAM solution down to the label printer level – potentially reducing regulatory risk.

Kallik AMS360 is a cloud-based label and artwork management system which allows all of the constituent visual parts of a product’s packaging, labelling and user literature to be managed from a central place.

Zatar is an IoT application enablement platform that helps manage entire device networks and simplifies the creation of applications. Zatar is suitable for building IoT and Machine to Machine (M2M) applications.