REA VeriCube IR

Applications

The right solution for every customer application

The REA VeriCube IR is an advanced device for verifying and evaluating machine-readable codes (2D Codes and 1D Codes). Its especially design and the implementation of infrared and red light technologies make it ideal for numerous industrial applications where high-quality and precise coding is essential. The following applications in particular benefit from the functions of the REA VeriCube IR:

• Printing and packaging industry: the REA VeriCube IR can be used to verify the quality of machine-readable codes on packaging. The infrared-permeable and fluorescent inks and colors ensure that the codes are clear and reliably readable even under difficult conditions.

• Pharmaceutical industry: In this industry, precise coding on drug packaging is crucial. The VeriCube IR ensures that barcodes and 2D Codes can be read correctly and reliably, even with especially fluorescent or infrared-transmissive inks, to ensure product traceability and safety.

• Electronics industry: Devices and components in the electronics industry often have to be marked with machine-readable codes that are readable under different lighting conditions. The REA VeriCube IR enables the validation of these codes, even when infrared-transmissive or fluorescent inks are used.

• Automotive industry: The marking of parts in this industry requires high precision. The REA VeriCube IR is ideal for ensuring the quality of codes on directly marked parts and their readability, even when using infrared fluorescent inks.

• Food industry: To ensure the traceability and safety of food products, the industry is increasingly relying on machine-readable codes. The REA VeriCube IR guarantees the readability of these codes even when using inks and colors that work in the infrared range.

The REA VeriCube IR offers maximum flexibility thanks to its combination of red light illumination at 660 nm and optional infrared illumination at 855 nm or 945 nm. The additional 16 IR LEDs make it possible to excite the inks to fluoresce in the IR range, enabling accurate reflection measurement as with normal surface reflections.

Scope of services

Product benefits, services and test standards

The REA VeriCube IR is a sophisticated system for the inspection and quality inspection of machine-readable codes, such as 2D Codes and 1D Codes. It offers a wide range of features and technologies to reliably verify codes printed with infrared transmissive and fluorescent inks and colors.

• Infrared illumination: The REA VeriCube IR uses infrared light (855 nm and 945 nm) and red LED light (660 nm) to ensure accurate evaluation of codes, even when printed with especially infrared-transmissive or fluorescent inks and colors.
• Contact-free code verification: The system is equipped with an advanced CMOS camera system that enables contact-free inspection of codes. This protects the codes from mechanical damage and ensures high precision in data capture.
• Interchangeable optical modules: For optimum adaptation to codes of different sizes, the REA VeriCube IR has interchangeable optical modules. This flexibility makes it possible to find the best optical solution for each specific inspection task.
• Selectable illumination types: Different illumination types, such as red or white light, can be selected for even more precise analysis. This enables adaptation to the specific requirements of code types and application scenarios.
• Flexible application options: The REA VeriCube IR can be used in three different positions: sideways, upright facing upwards or upright facing downwards. This flexibility ensures that the system can be optimally adapted to the respective measuring task.
• Standard-compliant inspection: The system verifies codes in accordance with ISO/IEC 15415, the standard for printed matrix codes, as well as ISO/IEC TR 29158 (derived from the AIM DPM2006 guideline) for directly marked matrix codes. It also verifies according to the general GS1 specification and evaluates GS1 data structures, which is particularly important for the requirements of serialization in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Data structure analysis: The REA VeriCube IR also analyzes data structures in accordance with ISO/IEC 15418 / ANS MH10.8.2.