Matthews Australasia is a finalist in the 2024 Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) Awards of Excellence for its iDSnet package code management platform, with winners to be announced in March next year at the inaugural Australian Processing and Packaging Expo (APPEX).
The iDSnet Cloud has simplified the process of generating various labels types, allowing users to generate and print their compliant tickets, tags and labels all from the one platform – taking out the need for countless software platforms for different label formats.
Mark Dingley, CEO of Matthews Australasia, said the company is extremely proud of its iDSnet solution.
“The transition from AUSPACK to APPEX drew a record number of entries in the APPMA Awards of Excellence, so to be selected as a finalist in the Digital Innovation category is a strong endorsement to our team that they’re doing excellent work,” Dingley said.
“The iDSnet platform, which embraces the challenges and opportunities that manufacturers see with the emergence of Industry 4.0 in the past decade, now comprises two distinct forms.”
First, it takes the form of iDSNet Cloud itself, a free cloud-based platform giving smaller family producers and manufacturers, wanting to dip their toes into the supermarket supply chain, the confidence to meet the required barcode-compliance standards without investing in complex software or hardware solutions.
Next, through Matthews’ customisable on-premises option, which offers a simplified version – iDSnet Express – it gives one centralised point of control, reducing coding errors on products and connects production lines to the business’ network.
The on-premises option also offers iDSnet Enterprise, which builds on iDSnet Express, and offers greater insights to increase efficiency be enabling next-gen product traceability, seamlessly integrating highly complex SCADA networked production line equipment and ERP systems.
It provides real-time production analytics, while also mitigating both the risk of connectivity-related challenges around external sources and cybersecurity breaches, and the risk of operator error by synchronising directly with the ERP.
iDSnet Enterprise’s seamless QA reporting and downtime recording also gives manufacturers significant cost-savings and line efficiencies.
“Our customers love the protection that both on-premises options offer with only admins to change data. This means workers who may not understand the complexity or risk of changing data, can’t do so,” said Braydon Cocks, product specialist – iDSnet & LPA solutions at Matthews.
“Since its inception, iDSnet has been an integral player in enabling Australian manufacturers to eliminate both waste in products on the factory floor and brand damage caused through coding and labelling errors.
“iDSnet is all about packaging quality assurance. Ensuring the right code is on the right product at the right time, as well as the correct packaging at all levels – all of which helps to streamline manufacturing business operations through efficiently organising data.”
To date, the iDSnet has already won two Awards of Excellence awards previously – the Best New Product and the Design Achievement awards.
It was also a finalist in the 2022 APPMA Awards of Excellence, having been named in the Community Contribution category, with the product freely available to Australia’s manufacturing community to help reduce labelling errors across the supply chain.
“The other finalists in this year’s Digital Innovation category are strong, so whether we’re announced as winners or not at the Gala Awards Night on 13 March, we’re still very proud to have been named finalists,” Dingley said.
“Having previously entered several Awards of Excellence, we know the company-wide, team benefit of entering them. Once again, the process of collating and submitting an entry has allowed us to celebrate our R&D and innovative collaborations, together.
“Thank you to the entire Matthews team for their efforts here, and equally as important, thank you to our iSDnet customers who have helped us shape the product we have today.
“All of this has resulted in iDSnet being a finalist in the Digital Innovation Award category, and those who would like to see the platform in action should come and see us on our stand at APPEX.”
Recently, Matthews celebrated a milestone of achieving printing one million labels by suppliers using the iDSnet Cloud.
Matthews Australasia will be on stand C045 at APPEX 2024 from 12-15 March 2024.
For a full list of 2024 APPMA Awards of Excellence finalists, click here. To buy tickets to attend the Gala Dinner and awards presentation, click here.
