Compliant Packaging. Compliant Packaging Made Easy With Scales

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1 Compliant Packaging Made Easy With Scales Accurate fulfilling of customers' orders is essential. If you ship less than required, your reputation is at stake; if you ship too many pieces, it costs you money. The manufacturer's responsibility does not end at the shipping department. No matter your point in the supply chain, it is mandatory for most companies to document the complete manufacturing process. Scales can help you fulfill both of those industry requirements. You can avoid over- or under-filling and achieve compliance from packing to shipping.

2 Correct packaging with colorweight To fill your shipping boxes or cartons with product packages correctly, simply use a weighing platform and a terminal with colorweight functionality. The colorweight indicator is a backlight display that shows weighing results in a three-color mode. Red indicates that the result is out of specification; green means it's with, and yellow means it is above target. Operators can determine completeness of a package at a single glance. ICS465 colorweight display ICS685 colorweight graph Checking completeness of bulk material In packaging areas, counting is a smart solution for accurate completeness checks of bulk material. Using the METTLER TOLEDO ICS4 and ICS6 scale family, simply define the weight of the piece to be filled and start filling until the preset target number is reached. The scale automatically counts the number of pieces currently boxed and the colorweight backlight display indicates if the target package weight is reached. You can fill thousands of small parts accurately in little time with this fast, easy-to-use and error-free solution. Fill small parts correctly with counting scales. Number of pieces correct = package complete Not complete Overfilled 2 METTLER TOLEDO - Application Note

3 Checking completeness of shipping boxes When you want to make sure that your package or delivery consists of enough products, just place a scale under the shipping box and you can check the weight of every item placed inside. Predetermine the total weight of a correctly filled box of a certain product and save it in the scale's database. Use it to fill shipping boxes with products until the preset total weight is reached. The scale then indicates that the operator can remove the package for shipping. Package above tolerance Package complete Package incomplete Check product intactness while packaging In another variant, you can check if product packages or kits are intact while packaging. Position a scale under the shipping box. Preset the weight of the product packages and tolerances. Place packages in the transport box, and the scale will start checkweighing. The colorweight indicator will indicate if a product package is within predefined parameters and no parts are missing. If so, the scale will automatically zero and the operator can continue filling. Scales indicate if product packages are intact. Keep filling until shipping box is full. Check kits for completeness Check accessories kits for completeness with scales. After a simple scale set-up, operators can make sure a package contains the exact number of items necessary. The backlight display clearly shows if a package is filled correctly. Make sure kits are not missing pieces. Use the totalizing function to package exact lots sizes. 3 METTLER TOLEDO - Application Note

4 The right printouts and labels Ship your packages with the right labels. With scales, you can use predefined printing templates or define your own user-specific ones in different formats, such as labels, strips, forms, pictures and barcodes. Different formats can be defined including article numbers, date and time or customer logo. The broad range of METTLER TOLEDO standard printers and third-party printers can be used. Standard Printouts You easily can create printouts with the scale. ICS685 compact scales can store up to 10 print templates. The configuration of templates can be done line by line in the scale s configuration menu. Easily configure printouts with the scale's built-in tool. Above is a standard printout. Customized printouts and labels For printing of barcodes, company logos or a specific customized layout, you can use the METTLER TOLEDO DatabICS software. You can customize printout templates to meet your requirements and to comply with industrial standards or local regulations. Include barcodes, such as Code 128, EAN-13, UPC or others, as well as pictures or company logos in standard image formats. Create labels according to your needs in no time with the easy-to-use DatabICS label creator. 4 METTLER TOLEDO - Application Note

5 Automotive industry labels Suppliers to the automotive industry may have to fulfill label standards from AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group), Odette (Organization for Data exchange by Tele Transmission in Europe) or other standards. The METTLER TOLEDO Print Design service supports many standard label formats. Create ODETTE(left) or AIGA(right) compliant labels Secure Shipping Finally, the weight of outgoing shipments must be checked. Knowing the accurate weight enables you to determine transport costs and prevents overloading of trucks or warehouse shelves. METTLER TOLEDO floor- and pallet truck scales determine the weight of pallet, packages, coils, drums or mixing vats. Either place the scale in a pit, use ramps or a low-profile scale to roll on and off quickly. While pallet truck scales offer great mobility, pallet scales themselves can be moved to different locations with built-in wheels and handles easily. Check coils, drums for their weight quickly and secure with floor and pallet scales. For high flexibility and mobility, use pallet trucks with built-in scales. 5 METTLER TOLEDO - Application Note

6 Retrieve audit-proof data Even when the goods are shipped, the manufacturer's job isn't done. Whether it is a box or package, every single workpiece may be required to be traced back to its source from product from batch number to delivery or at least from a manufacturing date and time. To prove your products left the factory according to certain standards, weighing instruments supply the relevant data. Retrieve data easily with Ethernet, USB via WLAN directly to your PC. For more information Mettler-Toledo AG Industrial Division CH-8606 Nänikon, Switzerland Local contact: