A MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A PACKAGING SYSTEM WITH BATCH EQUIPMENT

摘要

A monitoring system for a packaging system comprising batch equipment is presented. The monitoring system comprises a rack load sensor for determining a number of packages loaded onto a rack, a first identification tag reader for determining an identity of the rack by reading an identification tag provided on the rack in a batch processing start position, a second identification tag reader for determining the identity of the rack by reading the identification tag provided on the rack in a batch processing end position, a rack unload sensor for determining a number of packages unloaded from the rack, and a processing apparatus configured to determine that said rack in said batch processing start position is the same as the rack in the batch processing end position, and to determine a number of wasted packages by comparing number of packages loaded onto the rack and the number of packages unloaded from the rack.