Packaging lines rarely fail all at once. They fail in small increments: a label that sits crooked, a changeover that takes longer than it should, an operator pulled off another task to babysit a machine that used to run on its own. For food and beverage manufacturers, and for the contract packagers...

Food and beverage manufacturers rarely go looking for a "labeling solution" until labeling has already become a problem. A retailer rejects a pallet over an inconsistent barcode. An allergen statement gets missed during a fast changeover. A production run gets held because the date code printer...