Case Study: HarperCollins Canada automates book price labeling with Ahearn & Soper Inc.

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HarperCollins Canada, the publishing company, wanted to automate its Canadian pricing label process in March 2009. At the time, 8 to 12 people manually applied price labels each day, and the work was complicated by different prices, book thicknesses, and label placement requirements.

Ahearn & Soper Inc. proposed and delivered a turnkey auto-labeling system with ISBN scan validation, a vision camera for label placement, in-feed, separation and stacking conveyors, an industrial print-and-apply applicator, and PLC control. The system reduced changeover time to less than one minute, ran at 30 to 50 books per minute, and allowed full production speed with only 2 operators. Ahearn & Soper Inc. also supplied pressure-sensitive labels and on-site maintenance support.

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