Essential Benefits of Digimarc Automate
Waste Reduction
Cut Wasteful Packaging Without Sacrificing Efficiency
Reduce wasteful packaging components, such as plastic shrink sleeves, without compromising speed and accuracy in product inspection across production, fulfillment, and distribution facilities.
Quality Assurance
Eliminate Mislabeling and Manual Errors
Automate quality control checks to prevent incorrect matching of finished product components or mislabeling, reducing the need for error-prone manual spot checks.
Data Collection
Prevent Recalls with Real-Time Data
Utilize real-time inspection data to identify issues before they escalate, allowing for prompt corrective action and minimizing the risk and impact of recalls.
Cost Savings
Cut Costs, Errors, and Boost Safety
Improved automation reduces the need for human involvement in industrial settings, resulting in reduced labor costs, fewer mistakes, and a safer work environment.
67.00
%
Manually check select packages, cases, or pallets for inaccurate labels
17.00
%
Use machine readable codes to ensure product labels and other components correctly match
12.00
%
Do not monitor label accuracy
*Based on a Digimarc-commissioned Packaging World survey of 200 companies
Digimarc Automate in Three Steps
1. Enhancement
Your premedia or print partner embeds digital watermarks into your product, product label, or product packaging.
2. Detection
Your system integrator configures standard vision systems with integrated digital watermark detection OR configures a centralized system using cameras and digital watermark detection on a central controller.
3. Identification
Activated camera systems will detect the digital watermarks quickly and accurately, providing real-time data to foresee problems before they escalate, reducing the risk of faulty products and optimizing production processes.
Key Features of Digimarc Automate
Performant
High data redundancy and repetition of imperceptible Digimarc digital watermarks increases scan performance even in challenging environments such as recycle sortation and frozen food processing.
Efficient
The integration of Digimarc digital watermarks leverages your existing packaging tools and workflows, with Digimarc detection software easily deployable across various camera and inspection systems.
Adaptable
Beyond industrial automation, Digimarc digital watermarks support other enterprise use cases, including product authentication, advanced consumer engagement, improved sustainability, and next-gen retail checkout.
Where Digimarc Outperforms
Digimarc digital watermarking provides a clear advantage over other auto-ID solutions in specific environments and product formats.
Non-uniform or Random Pack Formats
Digimarc digital watermarks excel for packaging formats that cause random orientation on production lines (e.g., cylindrical, irregular-shaped items, thin flexibles), where other solutions are known to underperform.
Design and Branding
For brands prioritizing design aesthetics and brand consistency, imperceptible Digimarc digital watermarks are preferred over multiple visible codes, especially on small products with limited space.
Tough Industrial Environments
In environments where products face physical damage, code occlusion, or poor scanning conditions, the high redundancy of Digimarc digital watermarks ensures superior performance compared to visible codes
High-speed, High-risk Manufacturing
Digital watermarks are ideal for multi-variant products produced in high-volume, high-speed production environments, where the risk and cost of matching errors are significantly higher than in low-volume settings. In cases where an item’s scarcity contributes to its value, such as exclusive limited-run products and collectibles, digital watermarks can be used to precisely identify unit volumes and prevent damaging over-production or inaccurate allocation.
Digimarc + OMRON: Modernizing Digital Product Identification
Digimarc and Omron’s innovative approach leverages unrivaled expertise in digital watermarking and machine vision technology to deliver a transformative new force in industrial automation.
See Everything, Achieve Anything™
With visibility into everything, you gain critical intelligence to guide you in ensuring authenticity, reducing costs, increasing operational agility, and improving circularity at every step along the supply chain. Get started today.
