Digimarc Automate Product Brief

Superior Product Inspection with Digital Watermarks

Digimarc Automate improves accuracy and efficiency in production, fulfillment, and distribution facilities over traditional product codes.

Challenge

Mixing errors and mislabeling are critical issues in production, fulfillment, and distribution facilities, leading to costly recalls and waste. Traditional methods of product inspection are prone to human error and inefficiencies, making it difficult to consistently maintain quality standards. These shortcomings are especially notable in harsh environments and across specific product formats.

Product

Digimarc Automate offers a robust solution to these challenges. It integrates seamlessly into existing production workflows, embedding imperceptible digital watermarks into products, labels, and packaging. These digital watermarks are detectable by standard vision systems, enabling automated and accurate product inspection.

FEATURES

• High Redundancy – The repetition of digital watermarks across the entire package provides 360-degree readability by digital watermark-enabled vision systems, increasing scan performance even in harsh environments where products may face physical damage, code occlusion, or poor scanning conditions.
• Efficient Deployment – Digimarc Automate leverages your existing packaging tools, camera infrastructure, and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows. Digital watermarks can be printed with existing processes at no additional cost, requiring no special inks or hardware.
• Real-time Data – Foresee problems before they escalate with real-time data, reducing the risk of faulty products and optimizing production processes. This includes improved inventory management through tracking and forecasting, ensuring materials are available when needed, reducing downtime and inventory holding costs.

ADVANTAGES

Enhanced Flexibility & Scalability Highly adaptable to high-speed production environments, Digimarc Automate drives reliable detection on various substrates and packaging formats. Digital watermarks offer much greater flexibility on placement and coverage than traditional codes without the visual disruption to design aesthetics.

Quality Assurance Automation minimizes human error, leading to higher quality products with consistent specifications. Detect defects more accurately than human inspectors, providing real-time feedback on quality issues. This includes the prevention of incorrect matching of finished product components, mislabeling, and the incidence of overprinting or misallocation of items whose scarcity in the market contributes to their value, like exclusive limited-run products or collectibles.

Reduced Risk of Recalls Reduce the risk of product recalls with high precision and consistency to ensure that products meet quality standards, minimizing the chances of defective items reaching the market. Real-time quality monitoring with machine vision and digital watermarks can detect anomalies or deviations from set parameters immediately, allowing for instant corrective actions.

Waste Reduction Enhance environmental sustainability by optimizing resource use, reducing waste, and eliminating unnecessary packaging components, such as shrink sleeves.

Cost Savings Minimize human involvement in critical production stages, reducing the risk of mistakes, lowering waste through precise operations, and enhancing sortation efficiency. Also reduce the need for workers in hazardous environments, decreasing the risk of workplace accidents and injuries.

Innovation & Competitive Advantage Brands that adopt automation can achieve a significant competitive edge. Faster production times, higher quality, and cost efficiencies make it easier to compete in global markets and position a brand as an innovator and technology leader within its industry.