To meet the unique needs of each customer, WLS has adapted its high-speed pressure-sensitive label applicators and label printers to incorporate the latest RFID technology. By applying RFID labels to vials, bottles, tubes, syringes, and devices, WLS delivers labels that can lock in select variable data while allowing other variable data to be updated through the life of the product. This simplifies inventory control for end users while providing product verification and authenticity for manufacturers.
RFID-Ready Labelers are designed to apply pressure-sensitive labels embedded with RFID inlays from the converter. The RFID labels are read, written (encoded), locked or unlocked (as required), verified, applied to the product, and re-verified (as needed). The label web path has been configured to preserve the integrity of the RFID chips and antennas during the label application process.
Variable data printing with vision inspection systems can be coupled with RFID-Ready Labelers. WLS options for rejected label reconciliation, assurance labeling, and rejected product removal are all offered for RFID-Ready Labelers as with their standard labelers.
RFID-Enabled Label Application Systems provide dual label heads feeding a single vacuum drum applicator. The first label head releases a standard pressure-sensitive label onto the vacuum drum while the second label head releases the wet RFID tag, synchronized and centered, onto the standard pressure-sensitive label, enabling the vacuum drum to apply both the wet RFID tag with the standard pressure-sensitive label onto the product. This is a simple, cost-effective way to enable high-speed RFID labeling, allowing WLS customers to keep their existing standard labels.
The wet RFID tags are read, written (encoded), locked or unlocked (as required), and verified prior to being married with the standard label and applied to the product. Once applied to the product, the RFID label is re-verified (as needed). The wet RFID label web path has been configured to preserve the integrity of the RFID chips and antennas during the label application process.
RFID-Ready Print Stands from WLS are designed to print on pressure-sensitive labels embedded with RFID inlays from the converter, providing an off-line solution for incorporating RFID labels with variable data printing or whole-label printing. The RFID labels are read, written (encoded), locked or unlocked (as required) and verified all while the label is being printed. The roll-to-roll label web path has been configured to preserve the integrity of the RFID chips and antennas during the printing process.
Using an off-line, stand-alone, on-demand RFID-Ready Print Stand allows WLS customers to adopt RFID labeling without altering or upgrading their existing labelers. The high-speed RFID-Ready Print Stands incorporate full-label vision inspection with rejected label removal and verification, verifying the printed label and the encoded RFID tag.
