Smart Label™ is a comprehensive and intelligent labelling system which automatically reads formulae and applies the rules of the prevailing legislation to dynamically create up-to-date and accurate labels, with the minimum of fuss.

Smart Label™ generates labels for formulations stored in Single-Mix®, or the archive (Tracer™ or Rchive™). Tracer™ is even able to archive a copy of the generated label for future reference.

Labels can include a wide variety of information derived from the formulation itself, such as -

	Product details such as code, name, version number etc.
	Lists of recipe contents as groups or separate ingredients, and presented in ascending or descending order.
	Information and warning messages such as purpose statements, feeding guides and medicinal additive indications.
	Nutrient analysis declarations.
	Other information such as sequence numbers, manufacture and best before dates, addresses, customer details etc.

Smart Label™ is designed with productivity and accuracy foremost in mind. Using a template system ensures simplicity - all that is needed is to define the data which must appear on the label and to choose its layout. Changes can be made and applied to all labels simply and rapidly.

The message library holds standard paragraphs and text to make maintenance easy. The messages may relate to nutritional and ingredient content of the recipe and may appear on the label by the presence of of particular levels of nutrients and ingredients, and depending on the type of product.

Thus the recipe composition drives exactly what appears on the label, according to the rules defined in the template, and context sensitive to the product type and its intended use.

Label printing and output

Smart Label™ provides basic printing facilities which will support a wide range of printers including dot matrix printers outputting multiple labels at once.

However, for more glamorous printing, including barcodes, HAZOP warning symbols and a full customisable label presentation, the optional OutSmart™ module should be added.

Smart Label™ also provides standard interfacing facilities so that label text may be exported to other third-party systems if required. These could included in-line bagging systems or despatch modules in larger business systems.